climate change

Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Akwesasne

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The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe’s (SRMT) Environment Division is investigating the impacts of climate change on the resources, assets, and community of Akwesasne and is developing recommendations for actions to adapt to projected climate change impacts. This plan is a first step in an effort to develop practical actions that the Tribe can take in order to adapt to ongoing and expected climate changes.

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Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Akwesasne. Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Environment Division. Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe. Akwesasne, New York. August 30, 2013. Report. (https://dvc479a3doke3.cloudfront.net/_uploads/site_files/ClimateChange.pdf, accessed March 23, 2023)

Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Agroforestry

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USDA, National Agroforestry Center
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Communities around the world have practiced diverse and evolving forms of agroforestry for centuries. While both Indigenous and non-Indigenous practitioners have developed agroforestry practices of great value, in this publication, we focus on the role of Indigenous, traditional ecological knowledge. Indigenous communities include American Indians, Alaska Natives, Caribbean and Pacific Islanders, and others. Because Indigenous groups have lived in the same areas for long periods of time, each generation has built on the knowledge of the previous generation through observation and experimentation. In this manner, Indigenous groups have evolved intricate ways to manage bioculturally diverse ecosystems. These ecosystems are managed to provide food, fuel, building materials, agricultural and plant-tending tools, hunting and trapping equipment, baskets, and ceremonial spaces essential to life and maintaining cultural traditions. Many agroforestry practitioners in the United States are learning from these complex systems.

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Rossier, Colleen and Frank Lake. "Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Agroforestry." Agroforestry Notes. USDA National Agroforestry Center. May 2014. Article. (https://www.fs.usda.gov/nac/assets/documents/agroforestrynotes/an44g14.pdf, accessed July 25, 2023)

The Peoples' Forest: Emerging Strategies on the Mescalero Apache Forest Reserves

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This case raises questions about how American Indian Tribes reshape the care of forests on Indian lands by coordinating science-based forestry methodology and traditional ecological knowledge to meet their goals. Working the case, students are challenged to look for ways that the Mescalero Apache Indian Tribe, its membership, and its partners can reach beyond seemingly conflicting economic and restoration goals to apply forestry science and traditional ecological knowledge in restoration efforts. Can forestry sciences existing predictive formulae be used to achieve tribal goals, or will new scientific research need to coordinate with traditional ecological knowledge to achieve these goals? Prescribed fire and thinning are important tools for meeting todays challenging conditions, intensified by drought and climate change. Within the context of the case, natural resource activities are connected to legal, scientific, cultural, economic, and policy considerations. Currently decisions are made to achieve cultural and ecological restoration in a perfect storm of high fire danger, climate change, global economics and lowered timber harvests...

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Stumpff, Linda Moon. "The Peoples Forest: Emerging Strategies on the Mescalero Apache Forest Reserves." Enduring Legacies Native Cases Initiative, The Evergreen State College. Olympia, Washington. 2010. Teaching Case Study. https://nativecases.evergreen.edu/collection/cases/peoples-forest, accessed February 12, 2024)