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Timber Team assisting the Stockbridge-Munsee Community of Wisconsin to assess CFI plot damage after an extreme windstorm event.
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The BIA Timber Team provided critical forestry support to 16 Tribes across eight states and five BIA regions, engaging in tasks such as forest inventory, timber sale… Date:

The fully staffed Timber Team visiting the Deep Pond Recreation Site on the Narragansett Tribal Trust Lands of Rhode Island
Announcement

In FY23, the Timber Team added five new foresters to better assist Tribes with forestry tasks such as Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) ground truthing, timber sale… Date:

Timber Team assisting Umatilla Reservation with marking trees
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In FY 22, The Timber Team spent 30 weeks traveling in response to Tribal forestry project needs. Between driving and flying to project locations, they traveled over 32,000… Date:

Photo of BIA Timber Team visiting the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Forestry mill and watching the local staff cut ponderosa pine into boards for different projects at the Rosebud Sioux timber processing mill.
Announcement

This past September, the Timber Team traveled to southern South Dakota to assist the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Forestry Department. The team helped the tribe with the layout,… Date: