Tommy is a Tribal member from the Bird Town Community. In 2005 he became the Tribal Forest Resource Specialist for the Eastern Band of Cherokee where he is responsible for Forest Management Plan Development on the Trust Lands and on the forested tribal acres. Cabe serves as a liaison in the “agency to agency” relationships with the USFS and the NPS for collaboration on Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and traditional gathering of certain resources within these adjacent landscapes. He represents the Tribe locally and nationally on natural resource issues that impact Indian country both positive and negatively.