Tribal Workforce Training in Partnership with the Burns Paiute Tribe

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Published December 12, 2024

Building on our partnership with the Burns Paiute Tribe in Harney County, OR, three tribal young adults employed by Lomakatsi continued professional chainsaw training and helped reduce fuels within the ancestral lands of the Northern Paiute Gidutikad Band area as part of a training exercise over three days this week. Crew members Jordan FirstRaised, Lane Hawley, and Del Marsh, started working with Lomakatsi this summer through the Tribal Stewards program in partnership with the Oregon Natural Desert Association and federal partners. They’ve since been part of Lomakatsi’s Regional Inter-Tribal Indian Youth Service Corps (IYSC) Program, working on collaborative ecosystem restoration and fire resiliency projects in the Rogue Basin and Upper Klamath Basin in Oregon, and the Great Basin around Ft. Bidwell, California.

In the early fall, the crew members completed the National Wildfire Coordinating Group S-212 Wildland Fire Chainsaws course taught by Lomakatsi Fire Operations Manager Sean Voorhes, a certified NWCG instructor. This week, they joined our Restoration Operations Supervisor John Cymore and experienced sawyer and wildland fire fighter Abe Jacobs of the Kosealekte Band of the Ajumawi-Atsuge Nation for a field exercise to gain hands-on experience, cutting juniper and shrubs to reduce wildfire risk to the community.

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The training was funded through a Bureau of Indian Affairs IYSC agreement with Lomakatsi. We are grateful for our partnership with the Burns Paiute Tribe, as we help build tribal workforce capacity for ecosystem health, wildfire resilience, and cultural resource protection for future projects within their ancestral homelands.

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