1854 Treaty Authority
Climate Plan

1854 Treaty Authority Climate Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan

Description: “As the climate changes, subsistence resources such as mooz (moose), ogaa (walleye) and manoomin (wild rice) will change. Impacts to the Bands and the exercise of treaty rights will be magnified since reservations and treaty areas have geographically defined boundaries that do not allow them to follow shifts or changes in natural resources that occur as the climate changes. The 1854 Treaty Authority recognizes the need to understand the changes in climate and how traditionally harvested resources will be impacted in the 1854 ceded territory. The 1854 Ceded Territory Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan was completed through collaboration between the 1854 Treaty Authority, Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. The purpose for this plan is to investigate how changing climate conditions already are and will continue to affect the landscape and species within the 1854 Ceded Territory and the respective reservations. In addition to assessment of the changes, climate-related vulnerabilities and strategies were identified to create more climate resilient systems to support those resources.”

Link: https://www.1854treatyauthority.org/environment/climate-change.html