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Title: White Mountain Apache


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White Mountain Apache
Paul DeClay Tribal Forest Manager June 17, 2005
FORT APACHE INDIAN RESERVATION Fort Apache
Agency, Bureau of Indian Affairs
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Ownership ManagementFort Apache Indian
Reservation(Tribal Lands of the White Mountain
Apache)
  • Lands Held in Trust
  • (1.6 million acres)
  • BIA Trust Management (combined approach
    agency staff 638 contracts to tribe)
  • Tribal Population
  • (about 13,000 members)
  • Tribal Government (Tribal Council four
    political districts)
  • Outdoor Recreation (Fishing, hunting, skiing,
    camping, hiking)
  • Enterprises (Lumber mill, gaming, outdoor
    recreation, trophy hunting)

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History of Fort Apache Indian Reservation
  • Establish one large Apache reservation,
    September, 1871
  • Executive order split reservation in San Carlos
    and White Mountain reservations, June 1887

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Apaches hold their lands very sacred!
  • Lands are held sacred
  • Animals are held sacred
  • Plants are held sacred
  • Water is sacred
  • Fire is to be respected

Forest management needs to respect local
traditions.
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Aerial View of Hondah Apache Dawn Project
untreated
treated
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Logging
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Thinning
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Prescribed burning
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Grazing
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Outdoor Recreation
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Rodeo-Chediski Fire
June 18 to July 7, 2002
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Fire Facts
  • Pulsing plume dominated AND wind driven
  • June 19 _at_ 1730 Collapsing column causes fire to
    cover 10,244 acres in 15 minutes
  • Flame lengths nearly 1,000 feet
  • 5,660 acres/hour-or 100 acres/minute
  • 7 miles in 3 hours

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Fire Highlights
  • Rodeo Fire June 18, 2002
  • Chediski Fire June 20, 2002
  • Fires Merged June 23, 2002
  • 467,000 Total Acres Burned
  • 280,000 Acres on the FAIR (61)
  • Over 30,000 People Evacuated
  • Over 5,000 Fire Personnel
  • Cost Estimated at 80.0 Million
  • No Fatalities!

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Media/National Focus
  • EVACUATION Towns of Heber-Overgaard, Aripine,
    Clay Springs, Linden, Show Low, Pinetop-Lakeside,
    Hondah Homesites, McNary Forestdale (about 70
    miles long)
  • STRUCTURES LOST 468 homes

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Fire Effects And Forest Management
  • North of Chuckbox
  • Prescribed burning (within a few years)
  • Pre-commercial thinning (within the past decade)

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