Salish

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• Salish
• Kootenai
• Pend dOrielle

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Watershed planning

• Define the watershed

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Issues

• Hydropower
• Fisheries
• Watershed restoration and mitigation
• Water Quality
• International
• Water Rights
• Tribal land management
• Tribal Forest management

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Work With

• BPA
• NWPCC
• State(s)
• Federal agencies BIA, USFWS, EPA
• Flathead Basin Commission
• Provincial
• Tribes
• Counties
• Communities
• Local and regional interest groups

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Flathead Basin Commission1983

• To protect the existing high quality of the
• Flathead Lake aquatic environment the
• waters that flow into, out of, or are
  tributary
• to the Lake and the natural resources and
• environment of the Flathead Basin

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• 21 Members
• Seven appointed by the Governor
• One representative on Montana DNRC
• One Flathead County Commissioner
• One Representative of CSKT
• One USFS regional office
• One NPS
• Six ex officio BC, EPA, DOI, BOR BPA, COE and
  Licensee under FPA
• Two ex officio members DEQ and FWP

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Cline Mines Lodgepole project and BPs CBM
drilling (50 exploration 1,500 production in Elk
and Flathead valleys)
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32 river miles from US/Canada Border
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On the Reservation

• The CSKT have undertaken a variety of
  watershed projects

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Road Removal
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Channel Restoration
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Ronan Spring Creek South of Ronan
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Phase I Before Aerial Photo
Eroding, downstream migration of a meander bend
Abandon channel
Cleared riparian
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Phase I After Aerial Photo
Barrow site for floodplain fill material
Old channel filled in and re-vegetated
Reconstructed meander bend
Floodplain re-vegetation
Reclaimed channel
Stream channel elevated to re-connect to historic
floodplain
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Before
After
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Sustainability

• Sustain what and how
• Most definitions are economic based
• EPA is presently looking at recommendations of
  the NACEPT
• Sustainability of infrastructures through a
  watershed approach

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Sustainability A Tribal Perspective

• Protect and preserve resource for future
  generations
• Resources based

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Watershed PlanningProblems and Concerns

• Scale dependent
• Issue dependent
• Often complicated by political boundaries
• Jurisdictional issues
• Tribal interests often transcend multiple
  jurisdictional areas (Aboriginal interests and
  rights may go beyond the Reservation boundaries)

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Solutions

• Greater recognition of jurisdictional boundaries
  and transboundary issues
• Inclusion of Tribes in planning
• Local
• Regional
• Interstate
• International

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