The Tribal Climate Change Guide is part of the Pacific Northwest Tribal Climate Change Project (TCCP). The TCCP is part of the L.I.G.H.T. Foundation (LF), is an independent, Indigenous-led, conservation 501(c)(3) nonprofit established on the Colville Indian Reservation in the traditional territory of the Nespelem Tribe in present-day north central Washington State. LF supports the restoration and cultivation of native Plant and Pollinator Relatives and the culturally respectful conservation of habitats and ecosystems which are climate resilient and adaptive. For more information about LF, visit: https://thepnwlf.org/. For more information about the Tribal Climate Change Project, visit: https://tribalclimate.uoregon.edu/. If you would like to add information to this guide, please email kathy.lynn.or@gmail.com.

 

Events

April 8, 2025. 11:00 am Pacific. Virtual National Adaptation Forum: The Power of A Story: Crafting Messages That Move People to Climate Action. Communities are facing growing climate pressures, making collective adaptation efforts more important than ever. But how can we inspire and mobilize our communities to take action? A key element to any successful adaptation solution is how we frame and communicate it — moving community members from simply being informed to actively participating in solutions. In this session, a panel of communication experts will share insights from their field on how to better connect with people and convey impactful messages.  action. https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/fEpSHQSeTA-OatT1iprAXw#/registration

April 8, 2025.  12:00 pm Pacific. Best Practices for Environmental Data Collection: Community Air Monitoring. Please join us as our Center Director, Edmund Seto, presents on best pratices for setting up community air monitoring projects. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/best-practices-for-environmental-data-collection-community-air-monitoring-tickets-1267892523669?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

April 8-10, 2025. Climate Information for Adaptation Planning. International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, Alaska. This interactive workshop is designed to help you find, interpret, and apply climate projections and science in planning, proposal writing and decision making that is relevant to your community, village corporation lands, or municipality. For more information and to register, visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKtkoML1IjyXYfLOAFQg1jMCvaWbHC0Dne4uaSD5I2JWIu7w/viewform.

April 11-13, 2025. 2025 AISES North Region Conference. https://aises.org/events/2025-aises-north-region-conference/

April 14, 2025. 9:00am Pacific. Invasive Species Webinar: Resources and Networks. https://wsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tNw2Sd13SLaAq2uKFKcvVA#/registration

April 14, 2024.  3:00 pm Pacific. Hope and Transformative Climate Action. Katharine Hayhoe is a Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair in Public Policy and Public Law in the Public Administration program of the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University. She is also the Chief Scientist for the global conservation organization, The Nature Conservancy. https://cleanet.org/clean/community/webinars/event/april_14th_hope_transformative.html

April 16, 2025 - 12:00 pm PT. Pathways to Impact: Sea Grant Law Fellows Share Their Research. National Sea Grant Law Center Webinar. Sea Grant Law Fellows will present their cutting-edge law and policy research. This event will explore crucial topics such as climate adaptation, coastal resilience, and the impact of PFAS in the Southeast. Learn more and register here.

April 18, 2025, 10-11 am. Planners Briefing for Puget Sound Parcel-Scale Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment. The intent of this webinar is to introduce a project funded by the Habitat Strategic Initiative Lead that will improve upon a spatial analysis of SLR vulnerability initially developed between 2020-2023 that is intended to inform land use, ecological restoration, and hazard planning in Puget Sound. The assessment will re-calculate an SLR vulnerability index for every parcel within an SLR hazard zone, based both on the configuration of infrastructure and coastal habitats within the study area. This webinar will be held on Zoom - register here.

April 21, 2025. 9:00am Pacific. Invasive Species Webinar: On the Horizon. https://wsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/PCs6me-6SFat_gO2u36Wgg#/registration

April 22, 2025. 10:00 am Pacific. Tribal Workforce Development. Workforce development for clean energy projects on Tribal lands is one way to foster Tribal sovereignty, economic independence, and environmental sustainability. This webinar will highlight Tribal workforce development examples from the Southwest and Midwest. https://nau.zoom.us/meeting/register/3vVhU0CdTPeDzvYL_CKrig#/registration

April 28, 2025. 9:00am Pacific. Invasive Species Webinar: Panel Discussion: Challenges and Barriers to Management. https://wsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/YY5gRY8dT7y_-XdBQZloUw#/registration

April 29, 2025. 10:00 am Pacific. Tribal Wildlife Grants program. Applications due: June 20, 2025. Our grants team will be hosting a webinar on this funding opportunity on April 29, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. Mountain Time. We are working on getting a webinar registration link at this time. Please check our website Events & Training - Native American Fish and Wildlife Society to register: https://www.nafws.org/product/tribal-wildlife-grants-twg-funding-opportunity/.

May 7-8, 2025. Mountains to the Sea. Ventura, CA. Join us for the fourth convening of the Southwestern Tribal Summit, “Mountains to the Sea” on May 7-8, 2025 on Chumash land in Ventura, California. https://www.climatesciencealliance.org/2025-tribal-summit

May 12-15, 2025. 2025 Annual National Native American Fish and Wildlife Conference. Hosted by the Eastern Shoshone & Northern Arapaho Tribes of the Wind River Reservation, on  in Riverton, WY. Our 2025 National Conference Call for Abstracts and Call for Award Nominations are now open! Be sure to submit before our March 7, 2025 deadline. More information: https://nafws.org/product/2025-annual-national-conference/ 

May 20-21, 2025. WRRC 2025 Annual Conference - Shared Borders, Shared Waters: Working Together in Times of Scarcity. More information is available here: https://has.arizona.edu/events/wrrc-annual-conference-shared-borders-shared-waters-working-together-times-scarcity

May 20-22, 2025. 13th Annual Rising Voices Workshop. Learning from People and Place: Climate Adaptation and Restoration Action in Louisiana’s Working Coast. Thibodaux, Louisiana. https://risingvoices.ucar.edu/ 

May 26-28, 2025 - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Indigenous Centre for Cumulative Effects (ICCE) National Conference This year’s conference theme is “Honouring All Our Relations: Embracing Indigenous Perspectives on Cumulative Effects”, and will feature speakers on interconnectedness and interdependence, Indigenous Knowledge and western science, environmental stewardship, cultural resilience, valuable partnerships and more. https://www.icce-caec.ca/events/icce-conference-2025/

June 2-5, 2025.48th Annual National Indian Timber Symposium. The Confederated Salish, Qlispe & Ksanka (Kootenai) Tribes (CSKT) welcomes you to the Intertribal Timber Council’s 48th Annual National Indian Timber Symposium being held at the University of Montana in Missoula, MT. Aligning with this year’s theme “Managing Tribal and Multi-Agency Interest & Empowering Tomorrow’s Stewards” we will be focusing on working with other agencies and educating our youth to become our future leaders. The workshops and presentations will highlight these opportunities and challenges faced by tribes across the nation. https://www.eventsquid.com/event.cfm?id=27325

August 18-21, 2025. Tribal Lands and Environment Forum. https://www7.nau.edu/itep/main/Conferences/confr_tlef
 

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is supported through partnerships between the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program and the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 Tribal Program.
Questions about this Guide should be directed to kathy@uoregon.edu.

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