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Tool

Exchange Network

OpportunitiesAshley McFarland

Coeur d’Alene Tribe, Idaho

Overview• Coeur d’Alene Tribe

located in Plummer, Idaho

• Six employees in GIS staff

• Have worked with Exchange Network since 2003

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Objectives• Describe each grant awarded• Explain the work done on each grant• Illustrate the deliverables of each grant• Show how GIS can be utilized • Explore suggestions from the Coeur

d’Alene Tribe

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First Grant• Agricultural Burning, Smoke Management• Pesticide Inspection Management• Received in 2003—3 year project

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Smoke Management Goals• Develop tool to

manage agricultural burning on the reservation

• Develop infrastructure to exchange data

• Collect baseline data

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Infrastructure Development• Purchase and set-up

ArcIMS Web Server and Data Server

• Allowed data exchange within and outside of Tribe

• Exchanged data with EPA in Seattle , USGS in Spokane

• Providing metadata out to USGS Geospatial One Stop

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Data Development• Mosaic work done on

orthophotography• Field

ownership/boundaries determined by Common Land Unit (CLU) and Public Land Survey (PLS)

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BlueSky Data Integration• Predictive modeling

grid to estimate the cumulative effects of vegetative burning

• Data harvested to assess potential smoke conditions

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Smoke Tool Development• Web-based tracking

mechanism– Burners– Permits– Fields

• Identify fields appropriate to burn– Prediction of smoke

movement– Available, permitted fields

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Smoke Management Obstacles• Washington’s burn

dataset difficulties• Burn ban lawsuit– Short windows of

time to burn– Did not allow for

planning• Changing mindset

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Pesticide Project Goals• Assist tribal inspector in tracking pesticide

inspections• Develop database• Conform to “pesticide standard”• Allow EPA and other tribes to see

inspection data

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Pesticide Inspections• Tribal inspector works with six other tribes• Part of Circuit Rider Program• Wanted the ability to track inspections and

applicators to better plan future inspections

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Database Development• Conform to proposed standards• Develop queriable database• Create forms for field entry

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Pesticide Form Development• Based off of current field forms• Standardize and streamline• Forms undergoing “trial run”

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Pesticide Database• Tracks– Use inspections– Follow-up/

complaint inspections

• Forms– Applicators– Employers– Pesticides– Samples– Aggrieved party

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Pesticide Database Obstacles• Proposed standard

never adopted• Organizational

strategy• Flexibility

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Pesticide Project Deliverables• Functional, searchable database• Accessible to government and tribal

institutions• Broader use of forms

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Second Grant• Facility Registration System (FRS) Updates• One year project awarded in 2007

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Facility Registration Goals• Registered sites– Update contact information– Update latitude/longitude positioning – Strengthen overall data integrity within

the FRS• Other– Purchase GPS unit– Survey Reservation to ensure facilities

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Need for Improvement• Over 90

registered facilities throughout Reservation

• Only 1/3 of sites had spatial data—often incorrect

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Need for Improvement

Plummer Forest Products

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FRS Prep-Work• Took inventory of Reservation sites within

FRS• Made contact information updates where

possible• Researched and purchased GPS unit

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FRS Update Work• Purchased GPS unit• Surveyed facilities• Reported facility updates• Produced semi-annual

reports

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Facility Registration Deliverables• Updated tribal records• Improved data integrity for the EPA• Strengthened data sharing relationship

between the EPA and Tribe• Found areas to improve– Data integrity and currentness– Facility entries

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Applicability to GIS• Allows spatial traceability of environmental

regulation• Useful in web-map interfaces such as

EnviroMapper• Assists in environmental management

planning• Data availability at Geospatial One Stop

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Exchange Network Suggestions• Modify data framework• Service center vs. distributed data• Allow harvestable data to be posted

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Questions?

Ashley McFarland208-686-2064amcfarland@cdatribe-

nsn.gov

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