Tribe: Shoshone Paiute Tribes
View Source Document: Shoshone Paiute Tribes Climate Resilience Plan
Year: 2020
Topic: Ensure that the Sagebrush Steppe and Forest Ecosystem is thriving, vibrant, and resilient.
Update Rangeland Management Plan to include policies that reduce grazing pressure on recently restored (or replanted) landscapes.
Adopt a tribal ordinance to enforce Rangeland Management Plan.
Explore opportunities to install additional stock ponds on rangelands that use sustainable technologies (i.e. solar pumps, wind turbines, and windmills).
Update Hazard Mitigation Plan to include climate change projections to better access funding for drought protection measures.
Fund additional stock ponds on rangelands that use sustainable technologies (i.e. solar pumps, wind turbines, and windmills).
Evaluate livestock densities and grazing intensity, timing, and season, incorporating climate change projections.
Identify current lands on Duck Valley (or purchase new parcels) that could serve as a place to expand, protect, and...
Develop a plan to protect Wyoming Sage and Big Sagebrush in appropriate locations when considering climate change projections.
Fund Wyoming Sage and Big Sagebrush protection pilot project.
Use climate-adaptive Wyoming Sage, Big Sagebrush, and Bitterbrush seedlings to stabilize gullies and eroded hillsides.
Conserve areas identified as sagebrush landscape climate refugia and linkages between other potential refugia within the basin. Work instead to...
Coordinate with state and federal partners to protect core habitat areas that promote large-scale, continuous sage grouse habitat from development.
