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