Tribe: Shoalwater Bay Tribe
View Source Document: Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe Climate Resilience Plan
Year: 2021
Topic: Traditional Food
Support efforts to reduce existing non-climate stressors on traditionally-harvested species. A first step in improving climate resilience is to limit...
Increase involvement and communication with regional and federal agency management processes to support salmon restoration and traditional use of the...
Work to support and enhance the return to traditional foods by reincorporating fire and traditional practices to manage landscapes. Traditional...
Expand, update, and enhance efforts to limit the impact of invasive species on traditional food resources and ecosystems. Relevant to...
Initiate an educational program about climate change and the public health and wellness impacts it may bring, and ensure that...
Maintain current habitat, restore historical habitat, promote potential future habitat, and focus efforts on increasing resilience of these essential landscapes...
Continue to explore ways to ensure continued access by tribal members to traditional resources and harvest areas. Continued access to...
Integrate Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Western knowledges to manage for traditional resources and other values. Both Traditional Ecological Knowledge...
Integrate contemporary climate change projections and information into management of all traditionally-harvested species. Changing climate conditions can affect the vitality...
Enhance, update, and develop new monitoring programs around traditional resource species and ecosystems. Using a combination of Traditional Ecological Knowledge...
Support increased funding to monitor changes in aquatic food web dynamics. Due to past and projected changes to freshwater and...
Encourage planting of traditional and native plant species, over non-native species, where appropriate on Tribal lands. Traditional and native species...