Day 13
July 20 th Today with met with Rob Mallory, Clint Desautel and Lance they all work with Colville Forestry. We visited several logging sites, treatment sites and beautiful Twin Lake on the Colville reservation. Lance discussed how a treatment can take up to 2 months for 35 acres but that it varies also. Clint discussed the importance of fires and how pre-settlement that native peoples were using fire and that it was always apart of the ecosystem here on the Colville Reservation. Clint said something that I thought was profound and he said – ‘You can go as far as you want and long as you’re constantly learning.’ Lance also shared with us that the Colville tribe only allows for tribal members to gather traditional foods and that there are natural resource officers who monitor these locations of gathering and they can issue fines and confiscate berries, roots etc. from trespassers. They also shared that there is 3000+ Elk on the Colville Reservation. Clint and Lance both shared that t