Topics Featured In The Plan:

• Improve economic conditions of Native Villages.
• Increase education and outreach opportunities for native villagers to learn about climate change impacts with a focus on local issues and adaptation strategies.
• Set precedent in Norton Sound Region for data collection, watershed assessment and climate change adaptation planning.
• Protect subsistence resources in 100% of Watershed.
• Obtain funding for emergency preparedness and/or relocation of native villages in the Norton Bay Watershed most critically impacted by coastal erosion and flooding.
• Obtain stream temperature data, stream bank erosion, and other data to complement flow & water quality data currently being gathered for rivers in watershed.
• Increase access to subsistence resources in 100% of Watershed.