**Enhancing and Restoring Huckleberry Areas in a Healthy Watershed
Approach to Management**

June 10-11, 2008

Kah-Nee-Ta Resort, Warm Springs

**June 10, 2008 -- Day 1**

**[Moderator:]{.underline}** Steve Fitzgerald, OSU Extension Service

***10am -- 10:30am***

**[Welcome]{.underline}** -- KJ Silverman, MTH Deputy Forest Supervisor
and Bobby Brunoe, CTWS General Manager Natural Resources & Tribal
Historic Preservation Officer

**[Opening Ceremony]{.underline}** -- Fred Wallulatum, CTWS Tribal
Longhouse Leader

**[Keynote Speaker]{.underline}** -- Don Motanic, Intertribal Timber
Council - 20 minutes

\"A Huckleberry Trust Walk: Monitoring the Effectiveness of the
Federal-Tribal Trust Relationship under the Northwest Forest Plan\"

***10:30am - Noon***

**[Awareness -- importance of the huckleberry resource]{.underline}**
(tribal perspective, balancing ecological, recreational and cultural
needs, bringing together research and current knowledge)

[Heather Erickson]{.underline} PNW Research Ecologist - 20 minutes

Brief summary of published research -- huckleberry ecology, management,
responses to wildfire.

[Cultural Panel]{.underline} -- 60 minutes

5 tribal perspectives of the importance of the huckleberry resource and
cultural needs.

Jessica Bochart -- archaeologist, Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of
Indians

Robert Kentta -- cultural resource director, Confederated Tribes of
Siletz Indians

David Lewis -- cultural resource manager, Confederated Tribes of Grand
Ronde

Ruth Jim -- Tribal Council, Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama
Indian Nation

Viola Kalama -- Tribal elder, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs

***Noon -- 1:30pm***

Buffet Lunch, slide show presentation, network time

***1:30pm -- 3pm***

[Joyce LeCompte-Mastenbrook]{.underline} graduate student, environmental
anthropology - 20 minutes

Will present her dissertation proposal and preliminary results of a
comparative study looking at factors that contribute to sustainability &
equitable management of huckleberries and barriers.

[Frank Duran]{.underline} RO Forest Products - 20 minutes

National and regional special forest products policy from a management
perspective, what forests are doing in their permitting systems or
should be doing. And, policy and our ability to work with the tribes as
related to huckleberries and special forest products.

**[Huckleberry Management -- who is doing what?]{.underline}** (tools,
techniques, opportunities, knowledge gaps)

[Tony Farque]{.underline} WIL Archaeologist - 20 minutes

Will present the Cougar Rock Huckleberry Enhancement project, Title II
project, thinning/pruning/hand piling; focus is on increasing
collaboration with Grand Ronde & Siletz tribes.

[Bruce Holmson]{.underline} GIP Silviculturist - 20 minutes

Will present the Mowich Commercial Thin/Underburn project

***3pm -- 3:30pm***

Break

***3:30pm -- 5pm***

[Steve Boyer]{.underline} GIP Silviculturist - 20 minutes

Will present RAC project with PCT in lodgepole for fuels reduction and
huckleberry enhancement. Monitoring effectiveness of PCT to enhance
huckleberries.

[Mt Hood Meadows Ski Resort]{.underline} -- Matthew Drake - 20 minutes

Partnership formed with CTWS elders for berry picking areas protected
(on volunteer basis) from the general public.

[Cheryl Mack]{.underline} GIP Archaeologist - 20 minutes

Will present the Sawtooth Huckleberry Restoration project, a
landscape-level approach to restoring the Sawtooth Huckleberry fields, a
place of recognized cultural importance to the Yakama Nation. The
project plans to treat 1200 acres using a variety of methods for
reducing tree canopy cover. The cultural importance of the Sawtooth area
will be discussed, along with historic records describing Indian use of
fire in managing huckleberries.

[Susan Charnley]{.underline} PNW - 20 minutes

Integrating traditional and local ecological knowledge into forest
biodiversity conservation in the PNW

***6:30pm -- 8:30pm***

Salmon bake dinner

**[Poster Session/Papers, etc]{.underline}** available all day in the
poster session room

**June 11, 2008 -- Day 2**

***7:30am -- 8:30am***

Buffet Breakfast and checkout

***9:00am -- 3pm***

[Jim Rice/Matt Jimenez]{.underline} MTH Timber planning/ BIA planning
forester

Field trip to the Warm Springs Reservation site and the Summit
commercial thinning project on the Mt Hood NF. Review of a huckleberry
enhancement project using winter logging (over snow) to protect
established huckleberry plants. Includes discussion on stewardship
contracts, opportunities and workshop wrap-up. After the site visits,
return to vehicle staging area near Hwy 26 and disperse for home units.

*4:30pm*

Arrival back to Kah-Nee-Ta Resort for those returning to Warm Springs.