Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior ChippewaNE MN Landscape Plan

Land Tenure

1887 General Allotment Act (Dawes Act) 2/3 land loss

1906 Burk Act forced fee patents

Minnesota - Up to 1935: 12,507 allotments made, totaling 892,508 acres; 760,110 acres alienated.

Wildlife

•Moose

•Snowshoe

hare

•Deer

•Furbearers

The Forest

•Paper Birch

•Spruce

•Cedar

•Balsam fir

•Basswood

•Maple

Hardwood Pre-commercial Thin

Research Questions

Priority Species

Funding

Traditional staples

•Wildrice

•Blueberries

•Maple sugar

•Nuts Hazel &

Oak

Burning for Blueberries

Wildrice

Vegetation Control

“Studying what happened out in the wild rice lakes

Nanda-gikendaasowin Naawij Gaa-izhiwebakin Manoomini-

zaaga’iganiing

Dealing with Threats

Deer

EAB

Worms

Buckthorn

Garlic Mustard

Gypsy Moth

Mtn Pine Beetle