How are Tribes and First Nations Engaging with the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative?

The North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NPLCC) spans to the entire Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest Region, from south-central Alaska to northern California.  This region is home to over 200 Tribes and First Nations who have a key stake in conserving the natural and cultural resources as essential elements of their past, present, and future.  Many of these Tribes and First Nations maintain close relationships with the natural world for hunting, fishing, gathering and spiritual activities.  As the NPLCC pursues its mission of “development, coordination, and dissemination of science to inform landscape level conservation and sustainable resource management in the face of a changing climate and related stressors” it with works closely with Tribes and First Nations and does so through three facets.  They are the Structure of the NPLCC (committees, sub committees, business practices), Strategic Projects the NPLCC funds (Traditional Ecological Knowledge and subsistence resources), and how it Communicates with various tribal networks throughout the region.  The poster we submit to this conference details examples of these three facets of engagement.