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.

Local knowledge, customary practices, and harvest of sockeye salmon from the Klawock and Sarkar...

Type

Literature

Publication

Ratner, N.C., P. Brown, J. Rowan, D. Yates, M. Smith, J. Dizard, A. Paige, and M.F.Turek. 2006. Local knowledge, customary practices, and harvest of sockeye salmon from the Klawock and Sarkar Rivers, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Subsistence Technical
Paper No. 308. Juneau.

Year Published

2006

Description

"This report describes subsistence sockeye salmon harvest and use by the people of Klawock and Craig, Alaska at Klawock River and Sarkar River, Prince of Wales Island. Topics include the historic and contemporary methods of harvest and processing, location of sockeye fisheries, issues of competition, and distribution and exchange of salmon. Traditional Ecological Knowledge was collected through interviews with residents of Klawock and Craig. Observation of fisheries also provided information on which the report is based.”

Geography

Alaska

Website

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Turek/publication/268299728_Local_…

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.