The Yakama Nation Department of Natural Resources is currently developing a department-wide Climate Adaptation Plan (CAP). YN staff will be integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge with current science findings to better prepare their natural resource programs to address future climate conditions. Funding through this grant will facilitate sharing of key strategies between the CAP and the GNLCC Conservation Framework.
FY2015and FY2016 Objectives:During the period of this contract, the Yakama Nation will focus our efforts on three primary tasks, including but not limited to:1. expand participation in, and contributing to the Columbia Basin Partner Forum;2. engage the FRMP (Fisheries Resource Management Program) and DNR with findings available through the GNLCC in such a manner as to begin articulating potential longer term changes in staff organization / activities that are consistent with the GNLCC Objectives;3. develop a report to GNLCC and to the FRMP Program Manager with preliminary recommendations for the following elements of this objective:—–Development of decision support tools/systems or science applications for focused resource conservation—–Identify the manner in which tracking or evaluation of resource management efforts can be incorporated in the Yakama Nation Status and Trend Annual Report—–Initial coordination with other management agencies towards testing assumptions of model projections—–Initiate a strategy to inventory resource conditions or trends
