S-TEK Meeting August 22, 2016

Darcey Evans • Summer Tribal Climate Change

Management Intern with NPLCC

• Position funded by Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians and BIA

• PhD candidate in Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz

Upcoming Planning and Steering Committee Meetings:

• NPLCC Steering Committee Mtg. – August 25 (Phone/WebEx)

• SE Alaska Tribal Climate Summit – Sept 22-23 (Ketchikan)

• NPLCC Steering Committee Mtg. – Oct. 6 (Phone/WebEx)

• Multi California LCC Joint Steering Committee Mtg. – Oct. 26-28 (Pacific Grove)

• Alaska LCCs Staff Mtg. – Nov. 1-4 (Homer)

• NPLCC Steering Committee Mtg. – Nov. 30 - Dec. 2 (Vancouver B.C.)

• NPLCC Tribes/First Nations Committee Mtg. - Spring 2017 (location TBD)

NPLCC Mission (New Proposed)

In the face of a changing climate and other landscape-scale stressors, the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative supports development and application of useful science; we coordinate and disseminate that science; and we serve as a convener to further collaborative efforts to inform and advance landscape-scale conservation and sustainable resource management.

26 Active Projects

41 Completed Projects

18 Tribal/ First Nations Projects

49 Additional Projects

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19 Projects Federal/State/ Provincial

13 Projects Tribal/First Nations Lead

35 Projects NGO/University

NPLCC Projects 2011 - 2016

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$600,000

$700,0001 - Workshops and literature syntheses

2 - Data discovery and managementplatforms

3 - Priorities A & D: Effects hydrologicregime shifts & anadromous fish

4 - Priority B: Effects changes in air temp.and precip. on forests

5 - Priority C: Effects SLR and coastal storms

6 - Priority E: Invasive species, diseases andpests

7 - TEK

8 - Misc. decision support tools

9 - Geographically focused LandscapeConservation Planning

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multiple, connected projects)

Number of NPLCC Funded Projects (2011 – 2016 ) Shown by Category: ($3.0M NPLCC and $630K National LCCs for projects with adjacent LCCs included)

(3 geographies with

2016 NPLCC Projects

Cascadia Partner Forum: • Conservation Northwest ($17,050): Support for WildLinks (focus on

landscape conservation planning) and eDNA project (assessment project Upper Skagit in WA and St’at’imc First Nations territory in B.C.)

PNW Coastal LCD: • Oregon Dept. Fish and Wildlife ($50,000 – National funding): Focuses include

conservation targets and threats; GIS data; policy and technical support

• Consultant (TBD; approx. $25K): Social network mapping project

RFP Response: (Climate change and associated adaptation actions – linkages ecological and human resources)

• Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition ($49,400) Developing a Southeast Alaska Community-based Stream Temperature Monitoring Network

• Univ. of AK, Fairbanks ($33,400) Southeast Alaska Climate Change Summit

2016 NPLCC Projects (Continued)

RFP Response: (Climate change and associated adaptation actions – linkages ecological and human resources)

• B.C. Ministry FLNRO ($15,000) Understanding British Columbia First Nations Engagement in Climate Change

• Oregon Climate Change Research Inst. ($50,000) Developing Resilience to Natural and Cultural Dimensions of Climate Change: Tribal Perspectives and Applications

• Point No Point Treaty Council ($49,530; jointly funded BIA/USFWS) Modeling the Effects of Climate Change on Fish-bearing Streams in Western WA

• EcoAdapt ($20,000) The Available Science Assessment Project: Evaluating Adaptation Actions for Sea Level Rise and Coastal Change

For More Details - http://www.northpacificlcc.org/Projects

Tom’s LCD Presentation

1) What are the most immediate conservation needs across the NPLCC landscape?

2) How valuable is this information for managers and other decision-makers?

3) How critical is it for the NPLCC to focus on work of this type?

4) Is there relevant work of this type already being done by others?

Proposed Framing Questions for the 2017-2021 S-TEK Strategy

What Role Should the NPLCC Play?

Potential Guiding Principles for 2017-2021 S/TKs Strategy Focus on solving scientific, ecological and biological issues to promote scientifically sound, outcome-

based adaptive management.

Help managers implement actions by providing high quality or emerging information and tools to assist in decision making.

Work cooperatively and collaboratively to improve effectiveness of each organization’s large-scale landscape conservation programs and efforts.

Ensure equal standing and respect for multiple knowledge systems relevant to landscape-scale conservation and adaptation and integration where appropriate.

Include all landscapes, involving all relevant stakeholders, and including multiple values systems.

Promote a true landscape approach.

Respect social, political, and legal limitations while promoting solutions to landscape-level stressors that benefit the greater NPLCC conservation community.

Evaluate and monitor implemented actions in order to learn from and modify adaptation approaches.

Be transparent in operations and ensure equal and open access to the NPLCC process and products.

Round Robin

THANK YOU

Look for Today’s Summary/Presentations and Doodle Poll for S-TEK Meeting

end Sept/ beginning Oct.