Featured, OERM•1 min read EPA’s Office of Water has Launched a New Website! EPA’s Office of Water (OW) is excited to announce the launch of its new website, Clean and Safe Water in Indian Country. The website is intended to serve as a [...] Read More
South Central CASC Tribal Liaison Awarded Outstanding Tribal GIS Member Award March 18, 2021 South Central CASC Tribal Resilience Liaison April Taylor recently received the Outstanding Tribal GIS Member Award from the National Tribal Geographic Information Support Center, which represents more than 200 Tribal…
USDA Forest Service Appoints New Tribal Relations Director March 18, 2021 The USDA Forest Service recently appointed a new director to the Tribal Relations program. Reed Robinson announced his new position in a blog post on the Tribal Relations webpage. Here…
Alarmed by scope of wildfires, officials turn to Native Americans for help March 18, 2021 “‘Fire was absolutely a part of what we did all the time,’ she said. ‘It wasn’t a fearful thing.’“Long before California was California, Native Americans used fire to keep the…
NE CASC Fellow’s Perspective: Our Place in This Place March 18, 2021 NE CASC Undergraduate Fellow Jasmine Neosh, a student at the College of Menominee Nation, has published a personal essay that uses Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge…
Contribute to the Fifth National Climate Assessment March 18, 2021 The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is pleased to announce that the call for author nominations and technical inputs for the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) is now open.Please…
Tribal Climate Conference Addresses Environmental Issues in Indian Country March 18, 2021 “More than 2,400 participants from 30 countries and over 150 Tribal Nations sat in front of their screens to attend the first biennial National Tribal and Indigenous Climate Conference, held…
Preserving Our Place: Isle de Jean Charles March 18, 2021 “The influx of saltwater killed the marsh grasses. Trees that once offered shelter from hurricane-force winds were turned a skeletal white by the salt….“Preserving a moment in time has different…
Declining Marine Health Threatens Traditional Subsistence Fishing for Tribal Nations March 18, 2021 “Melissa Watkinson recalls a time in the past when she could go crabbing at the end of the dock in the Puget Sound and catch a great deal of crab.…
“Mask-to-Mask” Tribal Consultation in A New Era of Social Interaction March 18, 2021 A brief intro to a story posted on the USFS Tribal Relations blog on October 5, 2020 by Sandy Marin, Forest Service Office of Tribal Relations: “As the COVID-19 pandemic…
USET Awarded Outstanding Leadership in Climate Adaptation March 18, 2021 The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies celebrated the six winners of the 2020 Climate Adaptation Leadership Awards for Natural Resources during the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Virtual Annual Meeting.…
Solving the Climate Crisis: The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy America March 18, 2021 The U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis recently released their Climate Crisis Action plan, which lays out plans to work towards ambitious and actionable climate solutions that Congress…
North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center Launches the Tribal Climate Leaders Program (TCLP) March 18, 2021 The Tribal Climate Leaders Program (TCLP) supports Native American graduate students to become the next generation of Tribal environmental leaders. The TCLP was launch this fall 2020 and will be providing 5 fully-funded,…