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.

Climate Change Forcing Alaskans to Hunt For New Ways to Survive.

Type

Literature

Publication

PhysOrg

Year Published

2019

Organization

PhysOrg

Description

As world leaders and scientists grapple with how best to combat climate change, Alaska's native people—estimated at about 120,000 and living in some 230 rural communities or regional hubs—find themselves at the epicenter of a crisis that has forced them to rethink their traditional lifestyle.

Geography

Alaska

Website

https://phys.org/news/2019-05-climate-alaskans-ways-survive.html

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.