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Cow Creek tribal leader urges landscape-scale stewardship, cultural burning and statutory certainty
Summary
Tim Vredenberg of the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians testified in favor of HR 471, saying tribal stewardship and cultural burning are critical to restoring forest resilience and urging the bill to protect tribal roles and prioritize proximity to tribal lands in fireshed designations.
Tim Vredenberg, director of forest management for the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians, told the Senate committee his tribe supports the Fix Our Forest Act and urged stronger tribal roles in landscape restoration.
Vredenberg described a decade in which nearly 20% of the tribe’s reservation burned and said about 1,100,000 acres of the tribe’s ancestral area…
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