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Navajo Nation: Dune Study Offers Clues to Climate Change

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Type
Tribal Profiles
Organization
NGO, Tribal Entity
Description

limate change coupled with inceasing drought conditions over the last 15 years has had aconsiderable effect on the Navajo Nation, including the reactiviation of sand dune migration and sand dune migration. The sand dunes offer tangible evidence of spiking drought conditions and a glimpse into the future of an unstable ecosystem and the effects on sheep herding and other familiar ways of life.

Category Taxonomy
Drought
Research
Tribal
Geography
Southwest
Four Corners
Website
http://www7.nau.edu/itep/main/tcc/Tribes/sw_navajo
Contact Information
Profile

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.
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