Tribes, Climate Change and Solutions

Great Lakes NAFWS
Climate Change Session

(Leech Lake Reservation - September 2008)

Climate change was the theme for the 2008 Great Lakes Region Native American Fish and Wildlife Society annual conference. Speakers addressed the global warming forecast for the Great Lakes Region and mitigation and adaptation strategies. This sharing of experiences and knowledge among tribal natural resource and wildlife managers is an important step to addressing the climate change challenge and ensuring the protection of tribal environmental and cultural resources.

Agenda

• Agenda

Presentations

• Andrew Edwards, Moose Population Dynamics Research in NE Minnesota
• Beau Mitchell, Tribal College Sustainability Indicators Research Project
• Dann Siemms, Climate Change and Regime Shifts
• Darrell Harmon, EPA Office of Air and Radiation Climate Change Activities
• David Macarus, Climate Change as a National Priority or Is It
• Lee Frelich, Climate Change in the Boreal Forest
• Mark White, Simulating Forest Restoration in a Mixed Ownership Landscape Under Climate Change
• Mike Larson, Effects of Climate Change on Wildlife & Initial Recommendations for an Agency Response
  • Link to full report: "Climate Change: Preliminary Assessment for the Section of Wildlife of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources"
• Patty Brown-Schwalenberg, Tribal Natural Resource Management Textbook Project
• Steve Torbit, Impacts of Climate Change on Tribal Resources
• Steven Dahlberg, The Tracking Curriculum

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