Tribal Relations
Welcome to the Forest Service Office of Tribal Relations (OTR) website! Find out about what the OTR does, opportunities for Tribes, the Forest Service consultation schedule, and other relevant information for Tribes. If you have questions, please feel free to contact any of the OTR Staff members…
The Forest Service combined three consultation topics into a "bundle," and mailed it to all 566 Federally recognized Tribes and 29 Alaska Native Corporations in June 2013.
Read more… A Friendship Dance heralds the Forest Service-assisted return of a traditional area to Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
Read more… Alaska Native fisheries scientist creates tribal jobs, restores salmon fisheries, and receives Forest Service award.
Read more… Mariel Murray (left) participates in a tribal dance at the “To Bridge A Gap” 2013 Conferenece in Oklahoma.
Read more… The Forest Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Mescalero-Apache work together to control a forest pest and to create jobs. A tribal member working on a ponderosa pine thinning project on the reservation.
Read more… Estelle Bowman and Lillian Petershoare, Alaska Region Tribal Relations Program Manager, at the new Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station.
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VISION: The Forest Service is recognized as a leader among Federal land management agencies in partnering appropriately and collaboratively with American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal governments and communities for mutually beneficial outcomes.
