Tribe: Yurok Tribe
View Source Document: Yurok Tribe: Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Water and Aquatic Resources
Year: 2014
Topic: Adaptation Strategies for Traditional Diet and Food Security (View All Topics in the Plan)
Use the Local Environmental Observer Network to post disease outbreaks, toxin levels, and any other relevant information, to alert each...
Continue use of flexible harvest regulations that can adjust to changing conditions and migrating times.
Enforce Yurok Resolution banning pesticides on the reservation, to eliminate chemical runoff into tributaries.
Increase & protect Tribal Member access to traditional harvesting sites throughout Yurok Reservation and Ancestral Territory ; negotiate with agencies...
Continue introducing individual/family/community gardens for alternative food sources.
Continue to conduct cultural burns to enhance ability of forest to support terrestrial traditional foods such as acorns and hazelnuts...
Investigate health inspection requirements that need to be met to use food from school gardens in schools.
Restore prairies to increase elk, which could be an alternative food source if fish runs continue to decrease in size.
Engage communities in restoration activities – heal the land, heal the people – Hewecheck.
Decrease nutrient inputs that increase HABs such as nitrogen & phosphorus from agricultural run-off (JST 2013).
Work with academia to identify or develop environmental predictors of harmful algal blooms (HABs) (JST 2013).