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BLM Living Lands and Waters Rulemaking Webinar

Tuesday, June 6, 2023 (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM) (EDT)

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BLM Living Lands and Waters Webinar

Opportunities for creating partnerships with Tribal Nations and protecting cultural lands through Bureau of Land Management rulemaking

 

When: Tuesday, June 6th, 2023

1 PM MDT/3:00 EDT (one-hour)

 

You must register in advance. Please do so here: BLM rulemaking webinar

 

The National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (NATHPO) and The Wilderness Society (TWS) welcome you to join this webinar.  Our goal is to support Tribal Nations and Indigenous communities, preservation officers, nonprofit allies and others who are interested in submitting comments on the BLM rulemaking. 

 

In this webinar, we’ll share a comment letter template that addresses many issues that may be of interest to Tribes, answer your questions, and explore additional ways to provide the support you need to participate in the BLM rulemaking process.  We’ll also focus on the BLM land designation Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) and how this tool can be improved to better serve Native Nations seeking to protect important cultural lands. 

 

Comments on the Rulemaking are due to BLM by Tuesday, June 20th, 2023 

 

Webinar participants:  Gussie Lord has spent most of her career representing tribal governments, individuals, and Native-owned businesses she is a member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin *  Sean O’Meara is co-author of a new report on using Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACECs) to better protect tribal ancestral lands on BLM acreage * Letty Belin, former Counselor to the Deputy Secretary at the Interior Department during the Obama Administration in charge of the Indian water settlement program and currently working with the All Pueblo Council of Governors as needed on this BLM rulemaking. Cofacilitators:  Starlyn Miller, Director of The Wilderness Society’s Native Lands Partnerships program, she is member of the Little Shell Chippewa Tribe of Montana and a direct descendant of Menominee and Stockbridge-Munsee. Valerie Grussing, PhD is the Executive Director of NATHPO.

 

Background: The Bureau of Land Management administers more surface land (245 million acres or one-tenth of America’s land base) and more subsurface mineral estate (700 million acres) than any other government agency in the United States.  The agency is gathering feedback about important ways it should balance its mission to focus on cultural lands protection, conservation, recreation, wildlife, and climate impacts for the lands and waters that includes co-stewardship and co-management with Tribal nations who have cared for these lands and waters since time immemorial.

 

We would appreciate you sharing the invite with your colleagues and partners that you feel may benefit from hearing about this tool, i.e., particularly those that live near BLM lands and have interests in learning about ways to protect important cultural sites so they can participate in the comment period.



Tuesday, June 6, 2023 (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM) (EDT)

Tuesday, June 6th, 2023

1 PM MDT/3:00 EDT (one-hour)

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