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Providing staffing for the Montana SFI Implementation Committee: Patrick has been involved with SFI implementation since the certification program's inception in 1994. Montana has one of the most active and progressive SFI Implementation Committees and continues to pioneer and explore the opportunities that SFI provides to advance the practice of sutainable forestry. Developing, directing and administering Montana's award winning Accredited Logging Professional - ALP - program: Conceived in 1991, Patrick began working with Montana State University Extension Forestry to build an initial forest stewardship curriculum for timber harvesting contractors and their employers. The first Forest Stewardship Workshops for Loggers were held at the University of Montana Biological Station facility, on Flathead Lake, during the spring of 1994. Since then, the ALP program has evolved into a complete vocational training and education program for timber harvesting contractors and their employees, with a complete training verification relational database. The verification of education and training records becomes increasingly important for the verification of evolving forest certification standards. Developing a vocational eductaion and training program to build forest management and business development skills within the Native American firefighter community: PAFTI is working with the Society of American Foresters - SAF - to develop an accredited curriculum for skill capacity building within the ranks of existing fire suppression crews. This modular, two-track curriculum will empower firefighters to take on additional forest management tasks, so that they can realize year-round employment and accomplish forest managemnt tasks on Federal lands, which would otherwise not get done. Track One - 'Forestry Skills For Indian Country - Introduction To Forest Restoration', is designed to build basic forest mangement work skills, in thinning, tree planting and fuel reduction. Subjects covered include basic forest measurements and health asessment, basic silviculture and forest stewardship and builds the field skills necessary for successful project implementation. This workshop was successfully piloted during two workshops during March 2006, at Warm Springs, Oregon and Whiteriver, Arizona. Track Two - 'Forestry Skills For Indian Country - Introduction To Business Management', is designed for tribal forestry department staff and local enterpreneurs, who seek to pursue 'off-reservation' forest mangement contracting opportunities. This workshop covers the basics of business management to empower those who seek to start up new forest management businesses with the small business skills necessary to be successful. This workshop was sucessfully piloted during two sessions in March 2007, in Seattle, Washington and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Significant work opportunities exist under the Tribal Forest Protection Act (TFPA), which authorizes tribes to propose and implement forest management projects on adjacent federal lands.

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