Tribe: Nome Eskimo Community
View Source Document: Nome Tribal Climate Adaptation Plan
Year: 2017
Topics Featured In The Plan:
- Build capacity for addressing concerns about increased shipping and oil spills.
- Adapt food preservation techniques for changing weather and climate conditions
- Promote the use of traditional food preservation techniques that are less energy intensive than freezers, to provide opportunities for sharing traditional knowledge and reducing energy costs.
- Reconnect families to subsistence resources, especially for those with limited access to fish racks, transportation, gear, and camps.
- Increase awareness of weather and climate and related environmental conditions. Tribal members need to be aware of the weather for subsistence hunting and food preservation.
- Increase tribal participation in subsistence management that aligns with the shifting availability of subsistence resources.
- Protect tribal cemeteries from erosion.
- Support research and monitoring