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Forest Management Plan for Native Allotments in the Doyon Region of Alaska Forest Management Plan For Native Allotments in the Doyon Region of Alaska Will Putman, CF Jake Sprankle, CF Fabian Keirn Tanana Chiefs Conference Forestry Program Fairbanks, Alaska August 22, 2012 Forest Management Plan for Native Allotments in the Doyon Region of Alaska Executive Summary Within the Doyon Region of Interior Alaska, there are 2,647 pending, approved and certified Native allotment parcels currently under trust management status, covering 256,629 acres. The United States government is trustee of these allotted lands, and as such has management responsibilities on these lands, including the assurance that these lands and their resources are managed in perpetuity for the benefit of their Native Alaskan owners. Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC), a non-profit Native corporation serving 42 tribes in the Doyon Region, has assumed forest management responsibilities on most Native allotments within this region through an Indian Self Governance Compact agreement with the U.S. Government, along with several other tribal organizations in the region. This document is a programmatic plan designed to guide TCC in fulfilling its trust responsibilities in providing forest management services to Native allotment owners within the Doyon Region, and has been prepared by the TCC Forestry Program, with support from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Alaska Region Office and the BIA Branch of Forest Resource Planning. Accompanying responsibilities associated with Native allotment wildland fire management and protection have been addressed in a Fire Management Plan completed by TCC in 2002 and are not dealt with directly within the scope of this plan, although references to wildland fire issues and concerns are made throughout. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has guided the development of this management document, which conforms to the spirit of NEPA. Therefore, this document is the environmental assessment (EA) evaluating the proposed action of implementing forest management for Native allotments in the Doyon Region of Alaska. Part of TCC’s mission is to help allotment owners identify their goals and objectives for managing their forest resources. While TCC is responsible for managing the patchwork of small parcels of land scattered across the region, each with their own goals and objectives, it also has underlying responsibilities to the Native peoples of the region and to the management of the land and natural resources across the landscape. This plan represents an approach for managing allotments on a parcel by parcel basis while ensuring that these underlying responsibilities to the region and to its people are met. Highlights of the Plan: • Of the 2,647 individual allotment parcels currently in restricted trust status, inventory data indicates that 2,205, or 83%, have forested land cover. • 150,719 allotment acres are forested, of which 110,079 acres are considered “accessible”. • Total timber volume on all forested acreage is estimated to be 536 million board feet or 129 million cubic feet of wood across all subunits. • The State of Alaska Forest Resources & Practices Act regulations and riparian standards for Region III (Interior Alaska) and associated Best Management Practices provide a useful guideline for responsible conduct of forest management activities and forest road building. • Fish and game subsistence resources are extremely valuable to the economies and culture of rural Interior Alaska, and deserve utmost attention when implementing forest management activities in order to protect and enhance habitat and populations. Forest Management Plan for Native Allotments in the Doyon Region of Alaska Table of Contents I. Introduction ..................................................................... 1 A. Purpose and Need .................................................................................. 1 B. The Region ............................................................................................. 2 C. Goals and Objectives .............................................................................. 3 D. Authority ................................................................................................ 3 II. Description of the Affected Environment .......................... 4 A. Regional Setting ..................................................................................... 4 B. Description of Allotted Trust Lands ........................................................ 4 1. Historical Perspective ............................................................................ 4 2. Allotment Trust Status ........................................................................... 5 3. General Location .................................................................................. 6 4. Allotment Parcels and Acreages .............................................................. 6 5. Allotment Forest Management Responsibilities .......................................... 6 6. Forest Management Subunits ................................................................. 8 C. Land Ownership ..................................................................................... 8 D. Land Use .............................................................................................. 10 E. Climate ................................................................................................. 11 1. Climate Change .................................................................................. 11 F. Air Quality ............................................................................................ 12 1. Regional Haze .................................................................................... 12 2. Local Concerns ................................................................................... 12 G. Cultural Resources ............................................................................... 13 H. Water Resources .................................................................................. 14 I. Soil Resources ...................................................................................... 15 J. Wildlife Resources ................................................................................ 20 1. Introduction ....................................................................................... 20 2. Mammals .......................................................................................... 22 a. Moose (Alces alces gigas) ................................................................. 22 b. Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) .............................................................. 22 c. Black Bear (Ursus americanus) and Brown Bear (U. arctos) .................... 24 d. Other Mammals of Importance .......................................................... 25 e. Mammals and Forest Management ..................................................... 27 3. Birds ............................................................................................... 28 K. Fisheries Resources .............................................................................. 30 1. Fish and Forest Management ................................................................ 31 2. Fish and Forest Management Along Glacier Rivers ................................... 34 3. Five Functions of Buffers and Their Applicability to Glacial Rivers ............... 35 L. Timber Resources ................................................................................. 37 1. Tree Species in the TCC Region ............................................................ 38 2. Allotment Forest Inventories ................................................................ 39 a. Inventory History ............................................................................ 39 b. The Inventory Process ...................................................................... 40 c. Land Cover Typing Summary ............................................................. 40 i d. Available Aerial Photography and Imagery ........................................... 41 e. The Inventory Database .................................................................... 45 3. Land Classification and Timber Volume ................................................... 46 a. Land Classification ............................................................................ 46 b. Timber volume ................................................................................. 47 c. Woody Biomass ................................................................................ 47 4. Forest Productivity ............................................................................... 50 5. Annual Allowable Cut ........................................................................... 50 M. Wildland Fire ....................................................................................... 55 N. Forest Health ....................................................................................... 56 1. Forest Insects ..................................................................................... 56 2. Forest Pathogens ................................................................................. 56 3. Invasive Plants .................................................................................... 57 III. Forest Management Practices ........................................ 58 A. Silvicultural Systems ............................................................................ 58 B. Forest Development ............................................................................
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