As part of his call for a review of the federal subsistence program, Secretary of the Interior Salazar announced his intention to appoint a Chair of the Federal Subsistence Board. Nominations and applications for this position of Chair of the Federal Subsistence Board are now being solicited and welcomed through December 4, 2009. The appointment is expected to be made in the next several months.
The Federal Subsistence Board was created in the early 1990s and is the decision-making body that oversees the management of fish and wildlife resources for subsistence uses on Federal public lands and waters in Alaska. It is composed of the Alaska directors of the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the U.S. Forest Service, and a Chair appointed by the Secretary of the Interior with the concurrence of the Secretary of Agriculture. More