Tribes Use Western and Indigenous Science to Prepare for Climate Change

Northwestern tribes and the University of Washington climate group have joined forces to help protect salmon, roots, trees, and other important resources.

Historically, snow from the Cascade and Blue mountains would melt slowly over months, releasing a flow of cold water that sustained salmon and other wildlife in the Columbia River. Today, there’s less snow, and the spring thaw is hitting earlier.

“I felt sickened by the death of these salmon,” says Don Sampson, climate change project manager for the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, a group of 57 tribes in six western states. The disaster will linger, he adds, hampering many future generations of salmon.

Climate change is altering many environmental factors - from the timing of spring runoff to water temperature to snowpack and glacier extent - that have dictated the abundance and behavior of salmon and other vital resources. Indigenous communities, many of which practice traditional harvesting and gathering, either for sustenance or as a cultural practice, are already seeing these changes and want to take action to protect the resources most important to them.

It’s a bit ironic that Western science is directing them to conduct forest thinning and prescribed burns because those tools had been practiced by tribes for millennia to cultivate spaces ideal for the plants they harvest and the animals they hunt. But as climate change and a century of poor forest management are inflaming catastrophic wildfires, Western scientists are increasingly recognizing the wisdom of this traditional practice.

There is a part of my little city that floods almost every year.

A small stream overflows from the snow melting.

Our Democrat county commissioners decided to finally take action.

And, of course, that required that they raise our taxes.

Their solution?

Deepen the streambed? No.

Build water containment areas? No.

Build dykes? No.

They hired a guy (probably a relative) to tell us that there could be flooding.

There’s some real Democrat problem solving there.

“Today, there’s less snow, and the spring thaw is hitting earlier”

Dying of laughter here.

45’ of snow in the Sierras and February is not yet over.

Seattle had snow last week and I would bet the Cascades are well over average. Big winter here, just like 2016-17.

So what’s this dips**t talking about? The “climate” is about the same as its ever been in the West.

The Injuns are just seeing a new shakedown scam to run on the Palefaces: let’s guilt trip them this time over a fake injury. Kinda like Jussie the Hoaxer!

Central Texas was hit was a 40+ foot wall of flood water this past October. Several people lost their lives. Homes were demolished. A major bridge was wiped out. Thing is the water authority knew 2 weeks before that the rain and flooding was headed stream. Where the bridge was, and down stream, was an area where the water level has routinely been raised or lowered by dam operations. But the morons did NOTHING to lower the water level so the flooding wouldn’t have been so bad. AFTER the flood subsided, it took them mere hours to lower the water by 7 ft. and have kept it down for a couple of months - for repairs. Blood is on their hands for their incompetence.

The max. river depth is 60 feet and I’ve seen the level lowered to where there’s nothing but a little stream. So low that you can walk across (btdt). But, they did NOTHING back in October but sit in their little cubicles down in uber liberal Austin and twiddle their thumbs thinking of new ways to tax and new regulations on everyone but themselves.

Yep.

There’s a lady FReeper near Houston who hates me because I said Houston’s Democrat mayor was an idiot.

Instead of focusing on things he could AND SHOULD affect, he was busy campaigning for National office and blathering on about national issues.

People don’t understand that the concept of Opportunity Costs isn’t just about money.

Opportunity Costs can also include time and effort and many other things.

If local Democrat politicians spend their time, money and energy yammering about issues that they have no control over, then that is time, money and effort that could have been spent on issues they do have some control over.

And their failure to address the issues that they can affect, can have extremely damaging consequences.

And they should be held accountable for failing to do their job.

EARTH COOL DOWN CAUSED BY SOLAR INACTIVITY
WARNS GEO SCIENTIST
RESULTS FROM STUDY OF SALMON FISH REDUCTION

Scientific reports from Canada and Greenland has indicated that the the shrinking arctic ice sheets have begun to replace themselves rapidly. Strongly suggesting the earth instead of warming, is beginning to cool down. It is still not known (or proven) if this is the result because of the reduced rate of sun spot activity.

Canadian geo scientist Professor R. Timothy Patterson of Carelton University is urging a go-slow on the rush for governments to “Play God” with global warming legislative blaming this on CO2 (carbon dioxide) discharges. Legislating corrections attempting to control a natural cyclic occurrence caused by; sun spots, the magnetic solar wind, and cyclic earth magnetic polarity reversal, among other natural occurrences including volcanism, meteors etc. Probably plays a very significant role in climate change. Yet ignorantly blaming man made CO2 emissions for climatic change. which is becoming a rapidly discredited and minuscule cause of global warming in his article published by Canada’s Financial Post. 6/20/07

Patterson was selected by the Canadian government to study the fluctuations in certain types of fish populations.
While doing so the Canadian Geo-Scientist found a correlation when certain species of fish had high population and then drastic drop offs. He discovered these fluctuations corresponded with sun spot activity and solar radiation vs cosmic activity. When earth cooling occurred.

Studying deep fjords along the Western Canadian coast where deep pools of low oxidation water exist. The Patterson study reached deep into the earths recent past of 4000 years of undisturbed sediments. Patterson found that when aquatic activity was highest and lowest in those collected sediments having high aquatic content had matched known solar protection when the magnetic wind was highest, and dropped off when earth magnetic fields activities were lowest.Thus causing cosmic radiation to intensify.

Then because the earth became unprotected by its magnetic fields from galactic cosmic activity. Patterson cites several accepted theories which concludes this then created cloud activity during such periods which increased drastically. Thus cooling earth and bringing in its ice ages.

In his presentation here is a professor urging more scientific study (like Pope Benedict)is needed. That politicians including Al Gore, of The Earth Is Flat Society, don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. Strongly suggesting that the global warming may be caused by exhaling politicos rather than serious scientific examination.

Patterson seems to be saying before Canadians start investing in palm trees they should be considering better parkas because what goes up must come down and the Mexicans better move over for a reverse population flow. The story was featured in The Drudge Report, and World Net Daily, which were linked in The US Mat’s last page. But lost due to source link changes . http://www.theusmat.com/index.htm

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