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The Klamath Tribes were “terminated” during the Eisenhower administration in the 1950s as part of a national program to force assimilation of tribes into the larger culture of the United States. Most of their Reservation went into federal ownership and became the Winema National Forest. In 1986, the Klamath Tribes regained federal recognition. By the late 1990s, Klamath Tribal natural resource professionals, guided by a Memorandum of Agreement with the Forest Service, increased their participation in interdisciplinary planning on projects within the Reservation. The Klamath Tribes also continued to seek return of their homeland. In the early 2000s, they developed a Restoration Strategy for their Reservation and commissioned development of a forest plan that guides their recommendations to the Fremont-Winema National Forest on management of their Reservation. Through a Master Stewardship Agreement with the Forest Service, the Klamath Tribes now share implementation responsibilities, including prescription writing, sale layout, tree marking, and forest inventory.