Tribe: Fort Belknap Indian Community
View Source Document: Fort Belknap Indian Community Climate Change Adaptation Plan
Year: 2023
Topic: Water (View All Topics in the Plan)
Establish a wetland program to help protect and restore wetlands and riparian areas.
Increase stream meandering to decrease erosive floods.
Plant trees in areas upstream of infrastructure to help reduce the damage from flooding.
Develop a land management plan and water management plan with a focus on wells and reservoirs.
Stabilize the situation through natural solutions such as establishing more beavers and dams in the headwater streams of the mountains...
Find a way to catch and hold flood waters, for example, by building reservoirs.
Restore/create a wetland outside of Hays to divert water to when it floods.
Manage grazing to prevent degradation of streams and wetlands.
Restructure to place Lands, Fire Management, Transportation, Water, GIS, and Planning under the same roof, or have some kind of...
Monitor wells. Treat water from traditional sources. Prevent runoff related erosion. Monitor permafrost. Prevent sewage discharge.
Monitor community wells. Baseline testing of traditional water source. Feasibility study for new water treatment system at Noatak. Improved water...
