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This Trust relationship continues to be essential in order 

 for Native Americans to manage and enhance fish and wildlife 

 populations, the habitat they need to survive on, and the 

 environmental protection to ensure and intact and healthy 

 ecosystem. The efforts which we undertake directly benefit 

 more citizens than our own Band Members. Beyond the 

 management and protection of the natural resources on our 

 own Reservation, we have expended considerable efforts to 

 initiate participation in, and support of joint Tribal, 

 local, State, and Federal natural resource and environmental 

 projects and programs. In many instances this level of 

 commitment and support has been significant; especially when 

 "outside" forces which oppose the protection of natural 

 resources and the environment have stalled action by other 

 government agencies. Examples of the natural resource 

 management efforts undertaken by Fond du Lac will be 

 presented later in this document, and more specific 

 recommendations to the Federal government will also be 

 presented. As in our written testimony and Resolution to 

 the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, (Attach. A, 

 January 4, 199 3) we request equitable access to the Federal 

 Aid in Sport Fish and Wildlife Restoration Programs 

 (Dingell-Johnson/Pittman-Robertson/Wallop-Breaux) . Our Band 

 Members have helped support these programs for many years 

 through the Federal taxes on hunting and fishing equipment, 

 however we have never had access to these funds for natural 

 resource enhancement projects. 



We also must recommend that if these funds are made 

 available to Tribal programs that other Federal agencies 

 should not reduce their support for the programs because of 

 this. The result would be a net loss in our capabilities to 

 manage our natural resources. The "Federal Aid" funds are 

 for specific projects, and do not have the same function as 

 base program funding from the BIA. 



The President should direct OMB and the Department of 

 Interior to include natural resource add-ons, pay increases, 

 and COLA'S in Tribal base budgets, without reducing funding 

 in other Indian Programs. The draft of the Nationa l Indian 

 Fish and Wildlife Resource Management Act of 1993 is a 

 positive approach to solving many current natural resource 

 management problems. We support this initiative and will 

 comment further when the final bill is submitted to 

 Congress. 



There are a number of specific policy and legislative 

 recommendations within the Report of the Long's Peak Working 

 Group on National Water Policy America's Waters: A N ew Era 

 of Sustainabilitv , December 1992. We wish to expand on some 

 of the specific recommendations within this report. The 

 following recommendations will express our views. 



FOND DU LAC, R.B.C.- 



