"TFPA empowers tribes to harness indigenous knowledge and western science when conducting forest management projects."
"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."
"I want to focus my comments this afternoon on S. 4370, this is the Tribal Forest Protection Act Amendments of 2024."
"Mr. Chairman, I think you can hear, whether it is from Alaska and our lands up north to the lands as far south as New Mexico and Arizona, this is an issue that I think there is clearly common ground."
"I want to acknowledge my Committee intern, Nyche Andrew. She is Inupiaq, she is Yup'ik, she is from Anchorage."
"I think what Senator Lujan has said is worth noting, the economic opportunities that can be made available, the social and economic benefits if ANCSA lands are made eligible under TFPA."
"Statement of Senator Murkowski."
"I believe this measure is timely, it is well warranted."
"This is not acceptable. The forested lands owned by ANCs are in every aspect Indian forest land."
"Statement of Senator Murkowski"