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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

properly registered

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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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