Tribal Forestry in the Southwest: Perspectives, Practices and Possibilities

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2022 SWSAF Fall Meeting

Tribal Forestry in the Southwest: Perspectives, Practices and Possibilities

Thursday, October 27, 2022

Ice Breaker Pre-Meeting Social

Icebreaker/Social - Greentree Inn lounge

6:00 – 9:00 PM       Icebreaker and Social

Friday, October 28, 2022

Morning Field Tour, Technical Session #1, Business Meeting, and Banquet

Morning Field Trip – departing from Greentree Inn, Pinetop

8:00 – 8:15              Gather in Greentree Inn parking lot/organize carpool

8:15 – 9:00              Travel to Whiteriver, AZ

9:00 – 10:30            Field Tour: White Mountain Apache Forest Industry Mill

                                Please bring a Hard Hat and a Vest, if you do not have one we have some to share

10:45 – 11:30         Travel back to Pinetop

11:30 – 1:00            Lunch (on own, meal not included in registration)

Technical Session #1 – Hampton Inn conference room, Show Low

1:00 – 1:10              Welcome and Opening Remarks

1:10 – 1:45              Leon Ben, Fort Apache and Patrick Moore, USFS

                                            Tribal Forest Protection Act

1:45 – 2:15              Doreen Ethelbah-Gatewood, Tribal Liaison, USFS

                                            Application of TFPA on San Carlos Apache Tribal Lands

2:15 – 2:30              Break

2:30 – 3:00              Bruce Bauer, Sustainable Ecosystems

                                                          Restoration activities in northern New Mexico

3:00 – 3:30              Terry Baker, SAF Chief Executive Officer

                                            SAF and workforce challenges facing forestry

Business Meeting – Hampton Inn conference room, Show Low

3:30 – 5:00              SWSAF Business Meeting

Banquet and Awards Presentations – Hampton Inn conference room, Show Low

6:30 – 8:30              Banquet (meal included in registration)

Dinner: Chicken parmesan or stuffed shells, and garden salad

Dessert: Brownies and lemon bars

Drinks: Water and assorted alcoholic/non-alcoholic beverages

                                    SWSAF Awards Presentations

Saturday, October 29, 2022

Technical Session #2 and Afternoon Field Tour

Technical Session #2 – Hampton Inn conference room, Show Low

8:00 – 8:30              Meet and Greet

8:30 – 8:45              Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:45 – 9:30              Sara Souther, NAU and Andy Stevenson, USFS, Flagstaff

Emory Oak Collaborative Tribal Restoration Initiative

                                            Emory Oak Science and Management

9:30 – 10:00            Mark Jackson, BIA

                                            Reserved Treaty Rights Lands

10:00 – 10:15          Break

10:15 – 11:15          Mark Nabel, USFS, Flagstaff and Loren Anthony, Chizh for Cheii -

   Wood for Life

11:15 – 11:45          Carl Livingston, Alamo Navajo School Board

                                            Q&A on Alamo Navajo natural resource crew

11:45 – 12:15          Lunch (provided)

Afternoon Field Tour – departing from Hampton Inn, Show Low

12:15 – 12:30          Gather in Hampton Inn parking lot/organize carpool

12:30 – 1:00            Travel to field tour stop #1 on White Mountain Apache lands

1:00 – 1:30              Stop #1: Lone Pine timber sale - led by Jere McClemore, BIA                        

1:30 – 2:00              Travel to field tour stop #2 on Sitgreaves National Forest

2:00 – 3:30              Stop #2: Lake Bear task order (TFPA project) and Los Burros prescribed burn - led by Dave Raney and Chris Ruff, USFS, Lakeside                            

3:30 – 4:15              Travel back to Show Low