Poster Presentation C Thursday, 5:00 – 6:00 pm C Edmund Fitzgerald Exhibit Hall
GIS/GPS
Use on the Fond du Lac Reservation
Tim Krohn
Fond
du Lac Reservation
1720 Big Lake Road
Cloquet, MN 55720
timkrohn@fdlrez.com
The Fond du Lac Band of the Lake Superior
Chippewa own 30,000 acres of land within a reservation boundary that encompasses
100,000 acres. The band is also a signatory to the 1837 and 1854 treaties which
gave band members the right to hunt, fish, and gather on public lands within
these boundaries. The 1837 treaty encompasses 13.3 million acres in Minnesota
and Wisconsin of which the band exercises rights on 3.2 million acres in
Minnesota. The 1854 treaty encompasses 6.3 million acres in northeastern
Minnesota. GIS/GPS use provide maps on the Reservation and Ceded Territories for
forest cover types, land ownership, hunting zones for moose, deer, and turkey,
surface and groundwater monitoring, wetlands protection, housing locations, fish
census, fish spawning areas, land use planning, and grave locations.
The poster display will show maps of Fond du Lac Reservation and the Ceded Territories along with pictures and specialized maps of the above activities.