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Tribal Youth Initiative Program

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The purpose of the Youth Initiative Program is to engage and employ Native youth (ages up to and including 25 years of age), and to introduce them to unique internships and job opportunities which encourage protecting and improving the trust assets of Native Americans, Tribes, and Alaska Natives, preserving and maintaining natural and cultural resources, and the conservation stewardship of the land, water, and earth. This program promotes the education of its participants through hands-on experiences while developing the necessary skills of our future scientists.

Invasive Species Program

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The invasive species program enhances the protection of important Tribal trust resources (grazing, timber, fisheries, subsistence, cultural use) from the impacts of invasive species. The noxious weed component of this program provides on-the-ground management and treatment of noxious weeds on trust rangelands, and provides financial and technical assistance to Bureau Agencies, Tribes, and Tribal entities to implement weed control projects on trust rangelands. The program also provides and supports weed awareness training and research into biological control.

Fish Hatchery Operations and Maintenance Programs

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Program operations and fishery production are critical components to comprehensive landscape conservation with close considerations to environmental health and safety, water quality, economic benefits, rights protection, and habitat enhancement. Activities conducted are determined by Tribes, and cover a broad array of diverse fisheries, wildlife, conservation enforcement, public use, habitat management, and related programs.

Central California Agency

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The Central California Agency is the primary level that provides and coordinates the delivery of Bureau of Indian Affairs program services for 56 federally recognized tribes and 123 Public Domain Allotments within its service area, the largest multi-tribal field office in the contiguous 48 states. Tribal land bases are relatively small ranging in size from less than one acre to over 54,000 acres. There are four tribes that currently do not have any land in trust status.

Forestry Resources Program

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The forestry resources program goal is to protect and enhance forest resources guided by Tribal values. The Central California Agency is responsible for providing coordination, management, planning, oversight, and monitoring for all activities related to development and protection of Indian trust forest resources on Indian trust lands for the Tribes in Central California Agency’s service area.

Real Estate and Probate Services

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Division of Real Estate Services

During the last two centuries, Congress ratified numerous treaties and enacted dozens of laws that dealt directly with the lives and property of American Indians and Alaska Natives. While federal trust obligations lie at the heart of the Federal-Indian relationship, the scope of the United States’ responsibilities to Indian people extends beyond basic trust obligations to include a wide range of services delivered in concert with the principle of Indian self-determination.