Karuk Tribe Holds Its Own Climate Study Session

EcoAdapt, a non-profit outfit, was writing a risk assessment about climate change for the federal land management agencies that control much of Northern California. They invited stakeholders to workshops in the spring. Tribes were invited, but they have long said that they are legally entitled to government-to-government consultation, a level of process that should operate differently than the stakeholder interactions with other groups such as environmental groups, irrigators, and other interested locals. So the Karuk Tribe held its own meeting in Orleans this month and invited agency scientists and managers from near and far.