Lark personnel, when previously employed by another company, worked with a sovereign tribal nation to assist with updating the vision statement for the Tribe’s Integrated Resource Management Plan (IRMP) and with the development of an Agricultural Resource Management Plan (ARMP). Success of the project was predicated on a robust community involvement process. A comprehensive stakeholder-based participation process across multiple communities was executed under the guidance of an interdisciplinary working group that consisted of community members, multiple tribal department heads, federal agency contacts, and tribal council members. In addition, numerous community meetings were held around the reservation on multiple occasions; a community survey was developed and distributed across the reservation to solicit community input; a project booth at a local pow wow was arranged; and a local/on-site person was hired to assist with facilitating public involvement. In the end, the community involvement work resulted in a transparent public participatory process that served as the backbone of the work for the IRMP vision statement and ARMP.
