Advocate for the expansion of protected areas. Safeguarding upland plant and wildlife populations may be accomplished, in part, by expanding protected areas to encompass greater landscape diversity, include climate-resilient refugial habitat, and enhance habitat connectivity. Not only does advocating for conservation help protect the treaty-reserved rights of the Lummi Nation, which include the right to hunt and gather throughout the tribe’s Usual and Accustomed (U&A) grounds and stations and traditional territories, but it also helps protect ecosystem function, sustain vulnerable populations, and facilitate species range shifts in the face of climate change.