Will subbasin planning affect the Fish and Wildlife Services Tribal trust responsibilities?
Like all Federal agencies, we have important trust responsibilities to Native American Tribes in the Columbia Basin and elsewhere. We take our trust responsibilities seriously. As a representative of the Federal government and a steward of our nation’s natural resources, we implement our fish and wildlife programs in a way that reflects our Federal trust responsibilities to Native American Tribes, respects tribal rights, acknowledges the treaty obligations of the United States toward tribes, and protects the natural resources the Federal government holds in trust for tribes. We are held to these principles through numerous treaties between the Tribes and the Federal government, Executive Order 13175 requiring government to government relations, Secretarial Order 3206 relating to Federal/Tribal Trust Responsibilities, and the Native American Policy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In addition to being comprehensive, credible, and implementable, subbasin plans must also fully recog
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