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What is the KKCFP?
The Keex’ Kwáan Community Forest Partnership (KKCFP) is an “all-lands, all-hands” approach to community-based natural resource management that was launched in 2019 with the support of the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) and funding from the local tribal government. The core partners include Sealaska Corporation (Sealaska), Kake Tribal Corporation (KTC), The Organized Village of Kake (OVK), Southeast Alaska Land Trust (Sealtrust), The Sustainable Southeast Partnership (SSP), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG), and the US Forest Service (USFS).
The partnership is structured to have a steering committee, an interdisciplinary team (IDT) of resource specialists, and a community engagement process. There are monthly steering committee and IDT meetings, annual retreats and a community engagement process. The steering committee brings together the executive-level decision-makers for the partnership and approves on the ground actions. The IDT combines technical expertise for vegetation, stream, and road systems to identify project opportunities and practice adaptive management. The community engagement process integrates community values and priorities into the project prioritization process and has focused on community meetings, survey tools, and field trips.
What have you accomplished so far?
As a result of the collaboration of local landowners, land managers, conservation groups and community-based organizations, technical assistance and financial resources were pooled to:
- establish a formal Interdisciplinary Technical Team and Executive Steering Committee to sustain the Partnership over the long-term;
- provide a consistent and comprehensive database and set of maps for forest, stream and road conditions throughout the project area;
- develop a local tribal workforce capable of inventory, monitoring and conservation practice implementation;
- the treatment of approximately 450 acres of young growth forest with spaced thinning and slash treatment prescriptions, approximately 20 acres of experimental second entry thinning for wildlife habitat enhancement, approximately 500 meters of salmon habitat restoration and the restoration of access to approximately 15 miles of logging road for future conservation practice work;
- secure $2,850,000 in grant funding for future land management.
Here is a link to a 2024 Final Report to the NRCS on the RCPP agreement that was used to launch this project.
Where can I see KKCFP data and maps?
Visit this website to explore KKCFP data products. Contact Bob, the SSP regional catalyst for community forestry, if you would like hard copies of the data. You can also review the KKCFP Landscape Assessment for some narrative to go along with the data and maps.
