Press Release
Revised Policy Strengthens Collaboration Between Service, Native American Tribes for Conservation of Shared Natural Heritage
January 2016
Native American leaders and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) officials gathered today [January 20, 2016] to recognize new measures to strengthen the agency’s 20-year-old policy guiding government-to-government relations between tribes and the agency. Service Director Dan Ashe signed the updated Native American Policy (NAP) during a Washington, D.C., ceremony attended by Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Michael Bean and numerous tribal representatives. The Service manages lands and resources of great importance to tribes.
