The video of Monday’s briefing, “Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Communities of Color and Tribal Nations,” is now online. You can view it directly on Youtube at http://youtu.be/Dsrb4Xv9Dhc or embedded on the event’s page at http://www.eesi.org/031813_diversity#video. Monday, March 18, 2013——The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI), the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), the National Congress of [...]
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FDA Genetically Engineered Salmon Public Comment Period
The deadline for comment is February 25. The FDA is working toward approving genetically engineered salmon, and on December 21st it opened a public comment period on its environmental review. There are significant concerns that are not addressed in the environmental review about the escape of genetically engineered salmon into the wild. It is impossible [...]
North Coast Marine Protected Areas Adopted in Final Coastal Ocean Region
June 6th 2012 marked the first unanimous decision by the DFG Commission to codify and identify the new MPAs in the north coast. The historic special designation of Tribal uses and take are the first in the nation to be included in regulation. This will allow traditional use in a special category and to continue [...]
Spoil – Documentary on Spirit Bear water & forests
Spoil – Documentary on the Great Bear Rainforests under threat by DIRTY TARSANDS / OILSANDS 44 Minute Movie
Seaweed Testing – California Coast
It is with great relief that the CIWC received notice of testing results of radiation contamination fallout from Japan. It has not shown to negatively affect the seaweed along our coastlines of the Pacific Ocean. At a time when Round Houses, Tribal Big Times, Gatherings and other cultural traditional practices begin, the gathering of marine [...]
Kashia Pomo Tribe Gains Access to Stewarts Point
State officials allow Kashia Pomo tribe access to Stewarts Point The Kashia Pomo can continue to use Stewarts Point on the Sonoma County coast for tribal ceremonies and food gathering, as they have for 12,000 years, even though the spot is now surrounded by a new state marine preserve. By Matt Weiser mweiser@sacbee.com Published: Wednesday, [...]
The Whale…
This interchange between non Tribal People and whale, depicts in the best example of the mutual respect and compassion that we as Native People have had the privilege to share with our relatives in the wilds of this world. We hope this story serves as a humbling, and honored experience among all those that lived [...]
Wesley Chesbro to hold MLPA hearing in Eureka on January 21
Press Release: Chesbro announces MLPA hearing this Friday in Eureka: Jan 21, 2010 Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture – North Coast MLPA Hearing Humboldt County Board of Supervisors Chambers – 825 5th Street, Eureka, CA January 21, 2011 10 a.m. I. Wiyot Prayer – Dr. Cheryl A. Seidner II. Introductions – Assemblymember Wesley Chesbro, [...]
Link to West Coast Governors Agreement on Ocean Health
This link is for the West Coast Governors Agreement on Ocean Health, and contains updates for the West Coast Regional Partnerships Funding Program Proposal. http://www.westcoastoceans.gov/
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