CSV.2.12.030 Miscellaneous Forest Product Harvesting Permits

(a) Generally. Except a provided in Section CSV.2.12.030(b) [Non-Timber Forest Products and Ginseng Gathering Permits], no permit shall be required for the gathering of any wild plant, or gathering product on public land.

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

(1) No member shall harvest or gather non-timber forest products and ginseng pursuant to this ordinance without possessing a valid gathering permit issued by the tribal conservation department as follows:

(A) Small Scale Harvest Activity. For small scale activity, a tribal 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 tribal 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 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 in consultation with and approval of the land manager, which approval may not be unreasonably withheld.

(ii) "Designated Area" means a specific site identified and established by the tribal conservation department, in consultation with and approval of the land manager, which approval may not be unreasonably withheld, 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 members based upon the determined species harvestable surplus and may impose such terms and conditions as it deems necessary or appropriate.

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

(2) No gathering permit is required of helpers 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.2.12.070 of this ordinance.