Tribe: Shoshone Paiute Tribes
View Source Document: Shoshone Paiute Tribes Climate Resilience Plan
Year: 2020
Topic: Protect and enhance resilience for existing community economic assets. (View All Topics in the Plan)
Educate the public on best fishing practices and the impact of climate change on the fishery.
Inventory, identify, and prioritize stream reaches, floodplains, riparian areas, and wetlands for protection and for restoration in collaboration with fisheries...
Prioritize and develop livestock water sources away from riparian, wetland, and other vulnerable and important areas.
Explore opportunities for increasing irrigation efficiency and returning diverted water back into stream channels during critical flow periods.
Develop a cost analysis for new technologies to improve drinking water and irrigation efficiency and redundancies (e.g. solar pumps, remote...
Use existing or new models to get more information on forecasted stream temperatures and changing hydrologic regimes in order to...
Develop a long-term program dedicated to monitoring, evaluating, and reporting Duck Valley fishery that takes climate change into consideration.
Evaluate the potential to purchase water rights to be used exclusively for fishery benefits.
Identify opportunities for incorporating drought tolerant cattle, sheep, and other rangeland species into existing operations.
Identify opportunities to explore farm to table for premium beef or sheep products from the Tribe.
Identify vulnerable streams, rivers, and other bodies of water that will be most affected by extreme or long-term drought.
