Climate Change Adaptation Planning

The Samish Climate Adaptation Working Group, comprised of Samish tribal members, Council members and staff members, is leading this effort.

Climate Change Working Group

Name	Role
Leslie Eastwood	Tribal member, General Manager
Dana Matthews	Council Secretary, Health and Human Services Director
Jackie Ferry	Cultural Director/Tribal Historic Preservation Officer
Toby McLeod	Tribal Member, Natural Resources Department

Name	Role
Todd Woodard	Director, Natural Resources Department
TBD	Climate Adaptation Specialist

Phase One of the project has been completed and has generated the following three documents that will help to guide the next steps of the process:

Climate Adaptation Planning Framework	Climate Change State of Scientific Knowledge	Climate Change Planning Priorities
Available for download here.	Available for download here.	Summary available for download here. Full report available for download here.

Phase Two is starting and is anticipated to proceed by the following schedule:

Task	Description	Anticipated Schedule
Vulnerability and risk assessment	Perform Vulnerability and risk assessments of impacted/potentially impacted sectors of importance	Summer-2018
Goals and objectives	SMART resilience goals for high priority sectors set	Fall-2018
Adaptation Actions	Research, develop, assess and select Resilience actions	Summer-2019
Samish Climate Resiliency Plan	Samish Climate Resiliency Plan adopted by Tribal Council and mainstreamed across all Tribal programs	Fall-2019
Implementation	Annual work plan and monitoring efforts	Fall-2019