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

May 7-8, 2025. Southwestern Tribal Summit: 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 13, 2025. 8:00 am Pacific. Monitoring Global Terrestrial Surface Water Height using Remote Sensing. SWOT data provides unique capability of monitoring changes in freshwater, including river and lake level elevations, river width, slope, and discharge. This training will focus on introducing SWOT freshwater data products and their applications for water resources and disaster management. https://go.nasa.gov/44Bryng

May 15, 2025. 8:00 am Pacific. Monitoring Global Terrestrial Surface Water Height using Remote Sensing. SWOT data provides unique capability of monitoring changes in freshwater, including river and lake level elevations, river width, slope, and discharge. This training will focus on introducing SWOT freshwater data products and their applications for water resources and disaster management. https://go.nasa.gov/44Bryng

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 and 22, 2025. 9:00 am Pacific. Introduction to the Integration of Animal Tracking and Remote Sensing
Participants will then learn how to integrate telemetry and remote sensing data by applying a basic data standardization process to animal tracking data, visualizing the animals’ distribution via home ranges with utilization distributions, downloading remote sensing data, and characterizing animals’ habitats in a species distribution model to infer habitat use. The balance of tradeoffs (spatiotemporal mismatches; computational power and time) from pairing remotely sensed data with animal tracks will be discussed. Examples for both marine and terrestrial environments will be provided. https://go.nasa.gov/4iPMFWW  

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

June 9-10, 2025. Field and Flow - Strengthening Community and Statewide Collaboration. Join us for Field and Flow, a free two-day, in-person convening of partners working to restore and protect Washington’s floodplains. This collaborative event will bring together Tribal staff, Washington Department of Ecology, floodplain managers, ecological restoration specialists, and community leaders to connect, learn, and advance shared solutions for resilient watersheds. Register here.

June 10 and 17, 2025. 8:00 am Pacific. Sea Level Change Tools for Planning and Decision Support. This two-part introductory training series will focus on NASA products and tools available to assess historical sea-level rise, access and understand projections of sea level, and investigate impacts. Participants will be exposed to the causes behind regional and global sea-level changes and explore climate and analysis tools to access, visualize, and perform statistical analysis using NASA data. To Register: https://go.nasa.gov/42kVL8K

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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