Topics Featured In The Plan:

• Plan for decreased streamflow and limited water availability.
• Enhance the ability of ecosystems to retain water.
• Adjust systems to cope with increased water availability and high water levels.
• Respond to or prepare for excessive overland flows (surface runoff).
• Adjust the location and size of forested areas to new or changing water levels.
• Adapt significantly disrupted ecosystems to meet expected future conditions and needs.
• Relocate ecosystems, beings, or cultural sites.
• Reinforce infrastructure to meet expected conditions.
• Incorporate natural or low impact development into designs.
• Reroute, relocate, or remove infrastructure to increase access efficiency and minimize harmful impacts.
• Establish or encourage new mixes of local beings and/or bakaan ingoji gaa-ondaadag (non-local beings) expected to do well under future conditions to meet future needs.
• Guide changes in composition of beings at early stages of development.
• Seek out and share traditional and cultural knowledge of potential new beings from tribal communities where these beings are native.
• Promptly prepare and revegetate sites after disturbance.
• Allow for areas of natural regeneration to observe which beings naturally appear on the site.
• Reduce fragmentation to promote continuous natural ecosystems.
• Maintain and create habitat corridors through restoration.
• Use seeds and other biological material from relatives of beings from across a greater geographic range.
• Favor local beings whose traits are better adapted to future conditions.
• Collect and preserve seeds from beings that are at-risk or of concern to the community.
• Favor or restore native beings that are expected to do well under future conditions and that can help meet future needs.
• Work across treaty or tribal areas with partners and other tribes to manage at-risk beings.
• Maintain and restore diversity of native beings.
• Promote diverse generations (both elder and younger beings).
• Retain biological and cultural legacies.
• Establish protected areas to maintain ecosystem and cultural diversity
• Manage habitats and access opportunities over a range of sites and conditions.
• Identify additional lands for acquisition to expand the tribal land base, maintain diversity, and improve connectivity.
• Identify, prioritize, and maintain cultural sites and/or culturally sensitive areas.
• Identify, prioritize, and maintain at-risk and/or culturally important beings or communities.
• Establish places for at-risk or displaced beings outside of their normal environments (biological nests/refugia).
• Seek out or share traditional and/or cultural knowledge to inform management of sensitive or at-risk beings or communities.
• Create and/or maintain access routes to traditional gathering and harvesting sites.
• Monitor and reduce ambient air pollution.
• Alter community structure or composition to reduce risk or severity of major disturbances.
• Promptly revegetate sites after natural disturbance.
• Care for cultural sites after a severe disturbance.
• Plan harvesting, gathering and collecting opportunities to reduce the risk and impacts of disturbances.
• Maintain or improve the ability of communities to balance the effects of manidoonsag (little spirits).
• Maintain or improve the ability of communities to balance the effects of bakaan ingoji gaa-ondaadag (non-local beings).
• Manage herbivory to promote regeneration of impacted beings.
• Reduce negative impacts from anthropogenic disturbances.
• Maintain or restore riparian areas.
• Maintain or restore nibi (water) quality
• Support specific plants or plant communities with essential requirements.
• Revitalize and maintain Anishinaabe/ cultural use of ishkode (fire) as a stewardship tool.
• Maintain and revitalize cultural approaches to harvesting and caretaking.
• Establish, maintain, and identify existing inventory and monitoring programs.
• Establish and maintain cultural, environmental education, and youth programs.
• Communicate opportunities for use of tribal and public lands.
• Participate in local- and landscape-level management decisions with partner agencies.
• Maintain or restore hydrology and soils.
• Hold respect for all of our relations, both tangible and intangible.
• Maintain dynamic relationships in a changing landscape.
• Learn from beings and natural communities as they respond to changing conditions over time.
• Maintain and revitalize traditional relationships and uses.
• Establish and support language revitalization programs.
• Consult cultural leaders, key community members, and elders
• Consider mindful practices of reciprocity.
• Understand the human and landscape history of the community