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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
509.634.2426