Bank/shore armoring: Bank protection such as bulkheads and rip rap can be built to hold back tidal waters. This structural approach could be very expensive and might have to be built higher and larger over time as sea levels continue to rise, but could represent a short-term option to buy time for consideration of longer term strategies. It is also the least desirable from an impact on environmental and shoreline resources, causing damage in the near-term as well as potentially leading to complete elimination of certain shoreline resources and habitats where the sea rises against such structures. Despite the drawbacks for habit protection, it is an approach that may need to be considered for the short-term in at least some locations and circumstances, such as where major Tribal investments in upland development have been made that would not be easily or quickly relocated.