USDA Under Secretary Sherman
Holds Tribal Leaders Listening Session
August 21, 2010
Saturday AM
Juneau, Alaska - USDA Under Secretary Harris Sherman held a two-hour
listening session for Tribal leaders during his day-long visit
to the Juneau area, Wednesday, August 18. Leadership from Alaska
Native Brotherhood Grand Camp, Angoon Community Association,
Eyak Corporation, Sealaska Corporation, Kootznoowoo, Inc., Douglas
Indian Association, and Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian
Tribes of Alaska participated in the Juneau session.
Douglas Indian Association
members Evelyn Myers and Annette Ulmer express their Association's
concerns to Forest Service Alaska Regional Forester Beth Pendleton
and USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment
Harris Sherman during a Tribal Leaders Listening Session in Juneau
Wednesday.
Photo by Ray Massey, US Forest Service
Each of the Native leaders spoke to many subjects that affect
their people, but common themes were subsistence, jobs, economical
power, and land entitlements.
Sherman is the undersecretary
for natural resources and the environment, and as such, has the
Forest Service under his purview. His visit to Juneau is a part
of a week-long visit to the Forest Service Alaska Region and
its two national forests, the Chugach and Tongass. Regional Forester
Beth Pendleton is accompanying Sherman on his visits.
Sherman visited Sitka Friday
and wraps up his Alaska visits on Saturday with a visit to Prince
of Wales Island.
Source of News:
Tongass National Forest
www.fs.fed.us
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