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with its student internship program illustrates, opportunities are available to Indian students 

 interested in natural resource management careers. But a more comprehensive program - 

 including federal scholarships and loans - is needed to encourage interest by and 

 recruitment of tribal members into the educational programs associated with resource 

 management 



CONCLUSION 



We appreciate the Committee's sensitivity to tribal needs regarding plant, wildlife and 

 fish enhancement This area - in which tribes and tribal organizations are exercising their 

 self-governing authority to protect activities of longstanding and continuing importance to 

 Indian people ~ has been underserved by federal law. We look forward to working with the 

 Committee to help shape legislation to protect tribal hunting, fishing and gathering rights, 

 and the tribal management and enhancement of those rights. 



Thank you. 



GUFWC Tetiimony 

 Febnury 18. 1993 

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