Tribal Climate Change Guide

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.

Publications

Tribal leaders, scholars and others working with tribes on climate change issues are increasingly engaged in bringing tribal voices to academic literature, agency climate reports, and other publications to demonstrate the impacts of climate change on indigenous communities in the United States, and the measures tribes across the country are taking to address climate change. Abstracts and materials provided by the publications are included in the descriptions.

Publication	Year Sort ascending	Geography	Website
Reilly, M.J., Dunn, C.J., Meigs, G.W., Spies, T.A., Kennedy, R.E., Bailey, J.D. and Briggs, K., 2017. Contemporary patterns of fire extent and severity in forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA (1985–2010). Ecosphere, 8(3):e01695. DOI 10.1002/ecs2.1695 Categories: wildfire, fire, fuels, management, climate change, adaption, reduction, mitigation, planning policy, prevention	2017	Western United States.	Link
Mundahl, E. 2017. Tribes’ Statement on Paris Agreement Shows Limits of Tribal Authority. Categories: climate change, paris climate agreement, Trump Administration, sovereignty, self-determination, self-governance, limited authority, social justice, environmental justice	2017	National, United States	Link
Visser, Nick. 2017. Interior Department Scrubs Climate Change From Agency Website. Again. Categories: climate change, Trump administration, white house, anti-science, climate change denial,	2017	National	Link
AMS. 2017. State of the Climate in 2016. Categories: climate change, meteorology, carbon emissions, expectations, observations	2017	International, Global	Link
Hsiang, S., Kopp, R., Jina, A., Rising, J., Delgado, M., Mohan, S., Rasmussen, D.J., Muir-Wood, R., Wilson, P., Oppenheimer, M. and Larsen, K., 2017. Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States. Science, 356(6345), pp.1362-1369. Categories: climate change, weather patterns, precipitation, short-term, climate science, projections,	2017	United States	Link
Hugo, Kristen. 2017. Native Americans brace for impact as EPA undergoes changes. Categories: climate change, tribes, mitigation, adaptation, funding, technical support, management, infrastructure, at-risk communities, social change,	2017	National	Link
McNeeley, S.M., 2017. Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation in Indian Country. Weather, Climate, and Society, 9(3), pp.393-404. Categories: climate change, conservation, management, legislation, societal impacts, policy, natural resources, cultural resources	2017	National	Link
Fatorić, S. and Seekamp, E., 2017. Evaluating a decision analytic approach to climate change adaptation of cultural resources along the Atlantic Coast of the United States. Land Use Policy, 68, pp.254-263.	2017	Northeast, Atlantic Coast	Link
Hallema, D.W., Sun, G., Bladon, K.D., Norman, S.P., Caldwell, P.V., Liu, Y. and McNulty, S.G. In press. Regional Patterns of Post‐Wildfire Streamflow Response in the Western United States: The Importance of Scale‐Specific Connectivity. Hydrological Processes. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.11208. Categories: wildfire, fire, fuels, suppression, prevention, climate change, management, planning, policy, mitigation, adaptation	2017	Western United States	Link
Mohney, G. 2017. How climate change and air pollution can affect your health. Categories: climate change, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, human health, disease, death	2017	National, United States	Link
Fatorić, S. and Seekamp, E., 2017. Are cultural heritage and resources threatened by climate change? A systematic literature review. Climatic Change, pp.1-28. Categories: climate change, adaptation, marine health, fisheries, coast, habitat	2017	Southeast	Link
USGS. 2017. Model development for climate-driven impacts to berry resources in Alaska. Categories: berries, conservation, management, sustainability, planning, policy, projections	2017	Alaska	Link
Profita, Cassandra. 2017. Climate Change Is Making Smoky, Unhealthy Air More Common. Categories: climate change, wildfire, asthma, heart disease, human health, risk, hazard, air quality, smoke, pollution	2017	Northwest, Pacific Northwest	Link
Houston, L., Capalbo, S., Seavert, C., Dalton, M., Bryla, D. and Sagili, R., 2017. In press. Specialty fruit production in the Pacific Northwest: adaptation strategies for a changing climate. Climatic Change, pp.1-13. DOI:10.1007/s10584-017-1951-y Categories: climate change, produce, adaptation, sustainability, weather patterns, temperature, insect, disease, planning, policy	2017	Western United States.	Link
Watson, Teila. 2017. Indigenous knowledge systems can help solve the problems of climate change. Categories: climate change, adaptation, mitigation, TEK, traditional knowledge, Indigenous rights, Indigneous science, management, conservation	2017	Australia, Global, International	Link
Eilperin, J. 2017. The EPA just buried its climate change website for kids. Categories: climate change, youth, education, social justice, Obama administration, Trump administration,	2017	National	Link
Martinez, Danny. 2017. Cycle of Life (video). Categories: climate change, salmon, adaptation, subsistence, cultural resources, mitigation, social justice, environmental justice, tribal health, Warm Springs	2017	Warm Springs, Oregon, Northwest, Pacific Northwest	Link
Stöckle, C.O., Higgins, S., Nelson, R., Abatzoglou, J., Huggins, D., Pan, W., Karimi, T., Antle, J., Eigenbrode, S.D. and Brooks, E. In press. Evaluating opportunities for an increased role of winter crops as adaptation to climate change in dryland cropping systems of the US Inland Pacific Northwest. Climatic Change, pp.1-15. DOI:10.1007/s10584-017-1950-z Categories: climate change, produce, adaptation, mitigation, agriculture, sustainability, climate predictions, planning, management	2017	Pacific Northwest	Link
Landers, Rich. 2017. Columbia River sees near-record shad run; steelhead numbers are down. Categories: salmon, fisheries, tribal health, water health, watershed, climate change	2017	Oregon, Washington, Columbia River Basin	Link
soffen, K., Lu, D., 2017. All the things Trump cuts in his budget. Washington Post. Categories: trump administration, white house, planning, policy, management, congress, house of representatives, legislature, governmental agencies, budget cuts	2017	National
Davenport, M. E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board. New York Times. Categories: climate change, climate change denial, denier, anti-science, corporate, EPA, agency reduction	2017	National	Link
Oregon Public Health Division. 2017. Climate and Health Equity. Categories: climate change, human helth, equity, adaptation, mitigation, planning, policy, management	2017	Oregon, Northwest, Pacific Northwest	Link
The Dakota Access Pipeline, Environmental Injustice, and U.S. Colonialism. 2017. In Red Ink: An International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts, & Humanities. Categories: environmental justice, social change, protest, demonstration, fossil fuel, capitalism, indigenous, sovereignty, self-determination, treaty rights	2017	Midwest, National, North Dakota	Link
Page, Samantha. 2017. Tribal, environmental groups sue over methane rule delay. ThinkProgress. Categories: Trump Administration, climate change, tribes, legislation, policy, methane, BLM, emissions, standards	2017	United States	Link
Weiser, Matt. 2017. A guide to the EPA data under threat by the Trump administration. The Guardian. Categories: trump administration, budget cuts, EPA, environmentalism, unregulated, planning, policy, legislature, white house	2017	Natioanl	Link
Geiling, Natasha. 2017. Climate kids to get their day in court against the Trump administration. Categories: OCT, climate change, lawsuit, federal court, legislation, policy, carbon, emissions, youth, social justice	2017	National	Link
Categories: climate change, natural disaster, human health, adaptation, mitigation, planning, policy, management, decison-making	2017	Oregon, Northwest, Pacific Northwest	Link
Guide for Considering Climate Change in Coastal Conservation. NOAA. 2016. Categories: conservation, climate change, coastal, riparian, wetlands, estuary, marine health, flood, planning, assessment	2017	National, International	Link
PBS. 2017. Broken Treaties: The history of the native people of Oregon and how they went from possessing 100 percent of the state's land to nearly none of it. Categories: treaties, legislation, policy, management, Federal recognition, traditional lands, treaty lands, sovereignty, self determination	2017	Oregon	Link
n.a. 2017. Standing Rock's fight against Dakota pipeline not over as tribe plans for fossil-free future. Green Left Weekly. Categories: Standing rock, pipeline, legislation, lawsuit, climate change, policy, planning, fossil fuels, pollution	2017	North Dakota	Link

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.