Oversight/Legislative Hearing on “Improving Interagency Forest Management to Strengthen Tribal Capabilities for Responding to and Preventing Wildfires, and S. 3014, a bill to improve the management of Indian forest land, and for other purposes.”

Date: June 8, 2016

Time: 2:15 PM

Location: Dirksen

Room: 628

Witnesses

Mr. Michael Black

Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs

U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington DC

Testimony

Mr. James Hubbard

Deputy Chief, State and Private Forestry

U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC

Testimony

The Honorable William Nicholson

Board Member, Intertribal Timber Council; Secretary, Colville Business Council

Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Coulee Dam, WA

Testimony

The Honorable Carole Lankford

Council Member

Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes, Pablo, MT

Testimony