Empowering Tribal Agriculture with Environmental Stewardship:

Lark personnel, in coordination with a partnering Native American-owned business, completed 23 Programmatic Environmental Assessments (PEAs) for Tribes across the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains. The PEAs facilitate ongoing and future agricultural leasing and permitting activities on American Indian reservations in Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, and Nebraska.

This project necessitated close coordination with the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) regarding the preparation of Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7 Consultation documents, essential for the successful completion of the PEAs, in addition to the completion of a Biological Assessment. Furthermore, Lark collaborated with Tribal Historic Preservation Offices in Montana, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota to ensure that the PEAs adhered to tribal rules and regulations as well as Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.

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