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 |
Project Staff
| Name |
Role |
| Todd Woodard |
Director, Natural Resources Department |
| TBD |
Climate Adaptation Specialist |
Progress to Date
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.
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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:
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Task
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Description
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Anticipated Schedule
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Vulnerability and risk assessment
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Perform Vulnerability and risk assessments of impacted/potentially impacted sectors of importance
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Summer-2018
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Goals and objectives
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SMART resilience goals for high priority sectors set
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Fall-2018
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Adaptation Actions
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Research, develop, assess and select Resilience actions
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Summer-2019
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Samish Climate Resiliency Plan
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Samish Climate Resiliency Plan adopted by Tribal Council and mainstreamed across all Tribal programs
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Fall-2019
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Implementation
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Annual work plan and monitoring efforts
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Fall-2019
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