Topics Featured In The Plan:

• Provide education and outreach to empower early detection and prevention of spread of invasive species
• Identify the ecosystems most vulnerable to invasives and establish surveillance program
• Reduce spread of invasives by first identifying and then limiting or restricting public access to sensitive areas as necessary
• Establish annual monitoring and assessment systems
• Foster public education and outreach about invasives and utilize citizen science
• Share climate resilience and plan findings with the tribal program directors
• Seek out and secure funding to implement climate resilience goals
• Track success of educational programs with surveys, interviews, and tracking of changes in policies and behaviors of applicants
• Provide an annual or biennial report on implementation, adaptation, and monitoring activities
• Develop a tribal-wide climate resilience initiative within tribal programs
• Identify data gaps in current management plans
• Ensure the Red Lake tribe’s climate resilience through public education actions such as volunteer activities, tree plantings, public events, etc. in order to increase tribal membership buy-in
• Designate climate coordinator to track feedback and implement community meetings both on and off the reservation
• Engage the local K-12 schools and the tribal college with climate awareness
• Engage downstream communities as partners in climate resilience
• Analyze current forestry goals and assess risk
• Identify gaps and trends in forest information
• Combine research and climate findings with the timber data
• Update forest information annually and adjust plan to ensure sustainable harvesting for volume, forest health, and revenue
• Include risk assessment in current and future management plans
• Create comprehensive forest plan that incorporates all forest values: timber, economic, subsistence, and cultural
• Monitor climate risks on the local hydrologic systems and include this assessment in fishery management plan
• Track trends in commercial fisheries annually, especially walleye as indicator of lake health
• Use trends in water quality, quantity, and fish populations to update water management practices
• Track population of white fish in Red Lake as a possible bellwether for climate change
• Expand management partnerships in downstream communities