12/02/2015
https://www.congress.gov...
"TFPA empowers tribes to harness indigenous knowledge and western science when conducting forest management projects."
"I want to acknowledge my Committee intern, Nyche Andrew. She is Inupiaq, she is Yup'ik, she is from Anchorage."
"Too often these fires ignite on remote Federal lands and spread to tribal lands, endangering Native people, property, infrastructure, and cultural resources."
"You go on to say that Forest Service only has a presence in southeast Alaska, and therefore the TFPA issues are confined to the Tongass."