Cow Creek-Umpqua Tribe Sign Forest Service Management Plan
The Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians and the U.S. Forest Service (FS) have signed a co-stewardship agreement covering 155,000 acres in the Umpqua and Rogue River-Siskiyou national forests in southern Oregon, formalizing a government-to-government partnership focused on wildfire mitigation and forest health.
The agreement, signed in Washington, D.C., calls for coordinated landscape-scale projects to reduce wildfire risk and strengthen forest resilience. Work will be prioritized based on fire danger and potential benefits to nearby communities, wildlife, and cultural and spiritual sites important to the Cow Creek Umpqua.
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U.S. Dept. of Agriculture has awarded a $10 million grant to Purdue University to help landowners and stakeholders better adapt their forests to increasingly complicated economic and climate conditions in the Eastern U.S. About 5 million small, private landowners control just over half the acreage of forests in the Eastern U.S. This contrasts with Western U.S. forests, which are mostly publicly owned. Purdue and its project partners—the University of Georgia, the University of Maine and the U.S. Forest Service—aim to improve the management of 15 million acres of those forests, an area nearly as large as…
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