GIS & Inventory Forester
Menominee Tribal Enterprises
Gresham, Wisconsin, United States
McKaylee Duquain is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation. She grew up on the Menominee Reservation, only leaving to pursue her education at UW-Madison. After receiving her Bachelor's Degree in Forest Sciences, she returned home to work on her forest. After two years of working for the Inventory Department at Menominee Tribal Enterprise's Forestry, she left home once more to pursue her Master's in Conservation Sciences at UMN-Twin Cities. In 2020 McKaylee returned home again, this time to lead the Inventory Department, which is her current position. The inventory department is in charge of managing the GIS database housing much of the Menominee Forest’s data, as well as managing the ever changing harvest schedule that encompasses 167,000 acres of sustained yield forest and monitoring 50,000+ acres of other forested and natural areas on the reservation. Fieldwork is collected by her department based on the harvest schedule, and this data is used to make sustainable treatment decisions. Along with prioritizing sustainable management for the Menominee forest, she is always making sure that the effects of her decisions today, will only benefit the resource and the generations to come.
Full Circle Indigenous Fire: Past, Present, and Future
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM MST
