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FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
Volume 249, Issue 1-2, Pages 134-139Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.04.037
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traditional knowledge; Menominee Tribe; sustainability; sustained yield; American Indians; self-determination
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Until the era of self-determination from 1972 to the present, few Indian tribes in the United States were able to influence forest management on their reservations. The Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin is a major exception; based upon legislation in 1908, they were able to force the federal government to implement many ideas that are now popular as part of sustainable forest management: long rotation ages, selection harvest practices, and long-term monitoring. They also have maintained a mill throughout to support tribal employment. Other tribes have been able to implement their own ideas as their control of reservations has increased; the Intertribal Timber Council has an annual symposium at which tribes exchange ideas about forest management. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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