How Tribes Are Harnessing Cutting-Edge Data to Plan for Climate Change [yesmagazine.org]

Alicia Doktor 4/5/194:00 AM

The village of Taholah on the Quinault Indian Nation is just a stone’s throw from a pebbled stretch of beach pocked with the tiny holes of razor clams. The town is wedged between Washington state’s rocky Pacific coastline and a hillside of towering cedar and Douglas fir evergreens.

It’s been the home of the Quinault peoples for 12,000 years. And for the last 50-odd years, the home of tribal member Larry Ralston.

Back in 2008, when Ralston first learned climate change would cause sea levels to rise, he thought of those clams. “If we lose them, well, that is who we are,” he’d said then. “The cultural and subsistence significance of this is dramatic.”

[For more on this story by Terri Hansen, go to https://www.yesmagazine.org/pl...mate-change-20190329]

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