COLVILLE CONFEDERATED TRIBES

CLIMATE RESILIENCE

Amelia AM Marchand

Environmental Trust Department

CCT GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE

•  Four legislative districts

•  Omak

•  Nespelem

•  Keller

•  Inchelium

•  Fourteen (14) member Colville Business Council (CBC)

Natural Resources

Public Safety

Health & Human

Services

Education & Employment

Centralized Services

CLIMATE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT

ü 2017 – Physical Drivers Report

ü 2018 – Natural Resources Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment

Ø Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) Survey

Ø 72 Species Fact Sheets

Ø Community Climate Change Brochure

Ø Youth Pamphlet

Ø Youth Activity Teaching Guide

CCT Climate Website:

https://www.cct-fnw.com/events-news/

Climate Resiliency

Land Use Code

WVC Certificate

Ecological Restoration

Emergency Mgmt

Food Policy Council

Research & Resources

ACTIONS & APPROACHES

LAND USE CODE REVISION

•  Strengthen protections for headwaters, wetlands, floodplains

•  Establish Wildland Urban Interface areas for community protection

•  Establish and strengthen protections for traditional food gathering areas

•  Strengthen protection for natural spaces and traditional use areas – like family camps

WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE NATURAL RESOURCE CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS

•  TEK & Intergenerational Knowledge Transmission

•  CCT Ethnobotany & Biodiversity

•  Federal Indian Law and Policy & CCT Governance

•  Climate Science & Regional Impacts

•  Environmental Dispute Resolution & Intergenerational Decision-Making

ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION

•  Preparing streams and rivers for the return of salmon above Grand Coulee and Chief Joseph Dams

•  Improving water quality by removing or relocating problem roads

•  Reducing invasive species and increasing culturally appropriate native habitats

•  Beaver relocation into upper watersheds

•  Support traditional cultivation opportunities

EMERGENCY RESPONSE & PUBLIC SAFETY

•  CodeRed Colville Reservation emergency alert system

•  Hazardous materials and spill response training

•  Improve mountain road access and infrastructure

•  Identify housing and structures in floodplains which pose pollution hazards

•  Okanogan River Airshed Partnership

FOOD POLICY COUNCIL

•  Increase food and water security on the Colville Reservation

•  Reinvigorate traditional food systems

•  Support locally and regionally produced food system

•  Reduce nutrition-related health disparities, like obesity and diabetes

RESEARCH & RESOURCES

•  CCT research permit process and TEK protection

•  ATNI Tribal Climate Camp and Tribes & First Nations Climate Summit

•  PNW Tribal Climate Change Network

•  Cascadia Partner Forum

QECI’YEW’YEW’ LIMLMT LAMLAMT

Amelia AM Marchand

Program Director, CCT Environmental Trust Department

amelia.marchand@colvilletribes.com

509.634.2426