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.

Klawock River, Salmon Passage and Habitat Restoration Project Final Report

Type

Literature

Publication

The Nature Conservancy. 2012. Klawock River, Salmon Passage and Habitat Restoration Project Final Report. Prepared for NOAA Restoration Center. The Working Forest Group. 2013. Consolidated young growth forest land base analysis for all land ownership in Southeast Alaska and recommendations for federal land managers. Prepared at the request of: USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region.

Year Published

2012

Organization

The Nature Conservancy

Description

The Klawock River Salmon Passage and Habitat Restoration Project, supported by funding from NOAA, The Nature Conservancy and the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act, was the final act in a decade-long quest to restore a historical migration corridor for fish within the Klawock River watershed” (3). A collaborative project that constructed a culvert through an isthmus which unblocked a historical salmon passageway in order to help restore salmon populations from their dwindling numbers. Salmon populations from the 1920s to the 2000s decreased from approximately 60,000 fish per annual harvest to 10,000.

Geography

Alaska

Website

https://www.conservationgateway.org/ConservationPractices/Marine/HabitatProtect…

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.