Cooperative Initiative Builds on Progress to Advance Tribal Self-Determination and Self-Government
FAIRBANKS, Alaska –(ENEWSPF)–October 21, 2016. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced a Secretarial Order encouraging cooperative management opportunities between the Department’s land and water managers and federally-recognized tribes. The Secretarial Order sets out a framework to ensure that Native communities have the opportunity to assume meaningful and substantive roles in managing public lands that have special geographical, historical and cultural connections…
