Climate Change Assessment and Policy Development II

• Participated in the monthly PNW Climate Network, EPA Climate Adaptation Workgroup conference calls and commented on documents.
• Participated in the NW Climate Science Center Executive meetings.
• Attended the NW Regional Town Hall meeting on the National Climate Assessment and submitted tribal concerns.
• Participated in a Tribal Legislative conference call to strategize for future funding possibilities.
• Contributed to Kyle Dittmer’s Climate Change article that was published in the Climatic Change Journal in April 2013 on climate change impacts on tribal resources.
• Participated in the release of the National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Change Strategy that staff was tribal lead on for the Inland Waters section.
• Created a Temperature database for the Clearwater River developed.
• Participated in the monthly PNW Climate Network, EPA Climate Adaptation Workgroup conference calls and commented on documents.
• Participated in the NW Climate Science Center Executive conference call.
• Attended the NW Regional Town Hall meeting on the National Climate Assessment and submitted tribal concerns.
• Participated in a Tribal Legislative conference call to strategize for future funding possibilities.
• Contributed to Kyle Dittmer’s Climate Change article that will be published in the Climatic Change Journal in April 2013 on climate change impacts on tribal resources.
• Staff attended the National Climate Change Adaptation Forum in Denver, CO April 2nd and 3rd.
• Staff successfully recruited three tribal staff to attend the 2013 Climate Boot Camp.
• Staff was selected to serve on the City of Portland’s Climate Action Plan Update Committee and attended initial meetings.
• Staff attended the Climate Impact Research Center Stakeholders meeting on June 11th with Executive Director.
• Staff attended a City of Portland Climate Committee meeting July 11th.
• Staff wrote a Climate Change proposed amendment for the Northwest Fish and Wildlife Program Amendment process.
• Staff met with Northwest Power Council staff on the Tribal Energy Vision update and the Columbia River Treaty on August 20th.

The target species are Chinook, Coho, Steelhead, Sockeye, Bull Trout, Pacific Lamprey, and White Sturgeon. Work conducted under this project will contribute to the protection, recovery, and enhancement of these species in the Columbia Basin, as well as communication and public outreach about the potential effects from climate change on these species and strategies for the mitigation of these effects. The technical mainstem component of this project will, in coordination with the work of other agencies, assist in establishing mitigation and adaptation tools for tribes and agencies to project and address climate change impacts to salmon throughout the Columbia River Basin. These tools, such as flow and water quality management support systems, could be essential in preventing future extirpation of salmon stocks, particularly in the upper portion of the Columbia and Snake River basins. Development of these issues is described as a reasonable and prudent measure in the 2008 Federal Columbia River Power System Biological Opinion and expanded in the 2009 NOAA Fisheries FCRPS Adaptive Management Implementation Plan.