Tribe: Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe
View Source Document: Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe Climate Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan
Year: 2013
Topics Featured In The Plan:
- Expand and diversify water supply resources and increase water use efficiency through changes to behaviors and appliances
- Conduct a retrofit in conjunction with other repairs or replacements on critical wells
- Incorporate planning for sea level rise into replacements or upgrades of Tribal Campus Buildings
- Incorporate planning for sea level rise with wastewater tank replacement
- Increase wildfire preparedness through prevention and rapid response
- Increase cedar resiliency
- Adapt to climate impacts and maintain the economic viability of the Casino and Longhouse Market
- Adapt to climate impacts and potential disruption of travel due to flooding on major roadways
- Strategies to address environmental changes that threaten Salmon
- Efforts to help clam and oysters to be more resilient to climate change primarily focus on reducing or eliminating existing stressors, thereby increasing overall adaptive capacity and resilience
- Resilience strategies to decrease risk of exposure to shellfish biotoxins in the tribal community