CSV.1.12.030 Miscellaneous Forest Product Harvesting Permits

(a) Wild Plant and Gathering Product Gathering Permits. No member or duly authorized non-member shall gather any wild plant as defined in Section CSV.1.2.010(oooo) of this ordinance, or gathering product as defined in Section CSV.1.2.010(ff) of this ordinance on reservation land as defined in Section CSV.1.2.010(ddd) of this ordinance pursuant to this subchapter without possessing a valid gathering permit approved by the Tribal Governing Board which may incorporate such other terms and conditions as the tribal conservation department deems necessary or appropriate. Such a permit may be the member's tribal identification card required by Section CSV.1.3.030(c) of this ordinance.

(b) Non-Timber Forest Product and Ginseng Gathering Permits.

(1) No member or duly authorized non-member shall harvest or gather non-timber forest products as defined in Section CSV.1.2.010(vv) of this ordinance, and ginseng as defined in Section CSV.1.2.010(hh) of this ordinance, pursuant to this ordinance without possessing a valid gathering permit issued by the tribal conservation department, such a permit may be the member's tribal identification card required by Section CSV.1.3.030(c) of this ordinance, as follows:

(A) Small Scale Harvest Activity. For small scale activity, a member or duly authorized non-member may harvest non-timber forest products while possessing a valid gathering permit up to the following limits:

(i) Bark; Twenty (20) Trees

(ii) Boughs; Five (5) Tons

(iii) Firewood; Ten (10) Cords

(iv) Lodgepoles; Seventy-Five (75) Lodgepoles

(B) Large Scale Harvest Activity. For large scale activity, a member or duly authorized non-member may harvest non-timber forest products while possessing a valid large scale harvest activity gathering permit above the limits established for small scale harvest activity as follows:

(i) No member or duly authorized non-member shall gather non-timber forest products on a large scale without a valid large scale harvest activity gathering permit valid for a designated area established by the tribal conservation department.

(ii) "Designated Area" means a specific site identified and established by the tribal conservation department, for which a species harvestable surplus has been determined and for which the appropriate number of large scale harvest activity permits are available for the designated area.

(iii) The tribal conservation department may issue a large scale harvest activity permit to one or more member or duly authorized non-member based upon the determined species harvestable surplus and may impose such terms and conditions as it deems necessary or appropriate.

(iv) No member or duly authorized non-member shall fail to comply with the terms and conditions of a large scale harvest activity permit.

(2) No gathering permit is required of helper(s) of a permittee who participate only in the collection of the resource once it has been reduced to possession of a permittee.

(3) The tribal conservation department may impose such other terms and conditions as it deems necessary or appropriate, including biological monitoring requirements in addition to those contained in Section CSV.1.12.070 of this ordinance.