Contacting the Office:
Julie Morin, Acting Native American Specialist
e-mail: Julie_Morin@fws.gov
BHW Federal Building
One Federal Drive
Fort Snelling, MN 55111
Phone: 612-713-5108
Fax: 612-713-5280
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2006 Tribal
Wildlife Grants Program
$27,975
Lac Vieux Desert Walleye Conservation Program
George Beck – 906 -358- 4577 ext. 124
Accomplishments
Ashland FRO Assists With Native American Conservation
and Restoration Projects
The Service's Ashland Fishery Resources Office (FRO)
provides technical assistance on fish and wildlife matters to 14 Native
American tribes and associated conservation programs in Michigan, Minnesota
and Wisconsin. Yearly contact is made with natural resource directors in
order to assess wildlife technical and financial assistance needs. Partners
for Fish and Wildlife Program information was specifically provided this
year. We also provide project assistance to additional tribes throughout
the upper Midwest where needed. Presently, Ashland FRO is providing financial
and technical wildlife habitat assistance to four tribal wetland projects;
Lac du Flambeau (195 acres), Grand Portage (45 acres), Menominee (15 acres)
and Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, or GLIFWC, (15 acres).
One tribal wetland/riparian project was completed this year, GLIFWC''s
75-acre-1 mile riparian Spring Creek project. Wetland restoration technical
assistance is also being provided to the Red Cliff tribe in regards to
beaver pond and ephemeral wetland restoration. Prairie restoration technical
assistance was provided to the Prairie Island Indian Community. Planning
is presently underway for a 100-acre prairie restoration cooperative project
involving the Service, Prairie Island Indian Community and Circle of Flight.
In the past few years, Ashland FRO has completed upland and wetland restoration
projects with the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin, Leach Lake Reservation, Fond
du Lac, White Earth, Red Cliff, Grand Portage, and Lac du Flambeau.
Resource Outputs: The Ashland FRO is responsible
for fish and wildlife technical assistance to 14 Native American Tribes
and programs in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. We also provide project
assistance to additional tribes throughout the upper Midwest where needed.
Partners: Michigan: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community,
Lac Vieux Desert Band, Minnesota: Fond du Lac Reservation, Grand Portage
RTC, Bois Forte Reservation (Net Lake), Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians,
1854 Authority, Wisconsin: Bad River Band, Lac Courte Oreilles, Lac du
Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, Red Cliff Band of Lake
Superior Chippewa Indians, Sokaogon Chippewa Community (Mole Lake), St.
Croix Tribe, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC)
Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission
invites Service to Board of Commissioners Meeting
The U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service accepted an invitation to address the Board of Commissioners
(BOD) of the Great Lakes Indian Fish
and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC) at a meeting held Jan. 22, 2002. The meeting
was hosted by the St. Croix tribe of Wisconsin in the Don Saros Room at
their Turtle Lake facility. Attendance included representatives from 10
of the 11 member GLIFWC tribes and four Service employees led by Deputy
Regional Director Marvin Moriarty. Following a pipe ceremony and several
items of old business, the Service was first on the Agenda. Issues raised
by the tribes included: need for tribal consultation regarding the new
Tribal set aside of $5 million dollars as part of the 2002 Wildlife grant
program; funding discussion to enable the Service to perform activities
that have been covered by reimbursement; a request that grant resource
projects include needs that exist in treaty ceded territory and that proposals
submitted by tribes in behalf of intertribal organizations representing
Federally recognized tribes or by intertribal organizations in behalf of
Federally recognized tribes be considered for funding; a request to obtain
CITES tags for animals taken lawfully within tribal regulations; Service
assistance in the issue related to the harvest of submerged timber and
subsequent release of sediment related contaminants; Service assistance
related to potential impact on rice beds of mine drainage and chance of
train derailment when transporting mining materials and Service assistance
to increase the visibility of the Casting Light on the Waters program related
to the 1837 and 1842 treaty ceded areas. The Service has sent a letter
to the BOC thanking them for the opportunity to address them and summarizing
the main issues addressed at the meeting. An action plan has been established
to address each issue with responsible parties and due dates.
Offices Involved: R3-External Affairs, R3-Fisheries,
R3-Law Enforcement, RO R3-Ecological Services, R3-Regional Director's Office
Resource Outputs: Great Lakes Indian Fish and
Wildlife Commission has been an active resource partner with the Service.
This is the first opportunity the Service has had to address their Board
of Commissioners in the past three years. The resource items identified
will have a major bearing on the future relationship and cooperation between
the treaty tribes in northern WI, MN and MI and the Service. As each of
the items are addressed they will be reported in future accomplishment
reports.
Partners: Fond du Lac MN, Lac Vieux Desert
MI, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, Mille Lacs MN, Bad
River WI, Lac Courte Oreilles WI Lac du Flambeau, WI Red Cliff WI, Sokaogon
Chippewa WI, St. Croix WI, Bay Mills MI (Did not attend), Keweenaw Bay
MI
