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Seattle: Many Voices Make for a Healthy Urban Forest
- 2. Date (xx/xx/xxxx) Department Name Page Number 11/16/2022 11/16/2022 Seattle: Many Voices Make for a Healthy Urban Forest Seattle Urban Forestry
- 3. Date (xx/xx/xxxx) Department Name Page Number 11/16/2022 Overview Urban Forestry in Seattle • Geography and history of Seattle • Citywide urban forest strategy • The future of Seattle’s forest Featured program partners • Na’ah Illahee Fund and the Yahowt Indigenous Food Program
- 4. Date (xx/xx/xxxx) Department Name Page Number 11/16/2022
- 5. Date (xx/xx/xxxx) Department Name Page Number 11/16/2022 Our urban forest faces increasing challenges… made all the worse by climate change Climate change: hotter, drier summers and new pests Competing uses in right of way and private property Trees removed for infrastructure projects and development Budget cuts and rising maintenance costs Our urban forest is aging
- 6. Date (xx/xx/xxxx) Department Name Page Number 11/16/2022 How Seattle Cares for and Manages the Urban Forest Recommendations Community: Stakeholders with an interest in health and management of the UF UF Commission: Advise Mayor and City Council UF Management Team: Executive staff responsible for UF practitioners from 7 core departments. UF IDT: Departmental field staff from all 9 UF departments. UF Core Team: Staff from 7 core departments Mayor’s Office City Council Collaboration Communication Staff Teams
- 7. Date (xx/xx/xxxx) Department Name Page Number 11/16/2022 Working toward a more equitable, community-centered approach to increase climate resilience and achieve at least 30 percent canopy coverage. The Future of Seattle’s Urban Forest Census Block Groups – Existing Tree Canopy % 2021 Citywide canopy cover = 28.1% •Health disparities •Air quality •Heat island effects Inequities in our tree canopy follow other patterns of inequity
- 8. Date (xx/xx/xxxx) Department Name Page Number 11/16/2022 Near Term Aims Improve access to jobs and job training in urban forestry Focus tree planting and tree care in frontline communities with low canopy Inventory, protect and maintain existing trees to promote canopy growth Assess tree canopy cover and climate vulnerability Engage residents and business owners on tree planting and care to foster and sustain trees on private land
- 9. Date (xx/xx/xxxx) Department Name Page Number 11/16/2022 Some Current Actions • Conducting the next canopy cover assessment using 2021 data • Prioritizing tree planting and care in frontline communities • Updating tree protection ordinance • Working with: • Residents to plant and care for trees on private property • Industrial properties on ways to increase vegetation on their properties • Partner organizations to provide paid participation and learning opportunities in urban tree care
- 10. Date (xx/xx/xxxx) Department Name Page Number 11/16/2022 And now, Na’ah Illahee Fund and Yahowt Indigenous Food Program
- 11. Na’ah Illahee Fund Yahowt Indigenous Food Program
- 12. Who we are… Shameka Gagnier Shanoa Pinkham Yahowt Food & Land Restoration Program Coordinator Land Restoration Coordinator Shelly Vendiola Indigenous Ecology Program Manager
- 13. Did you know…? Where do you think more Native people live, cities or Reservations? Cities How many Federally Recognized Tribes are there in the United States? 574 Reservations 634 167 226
- 14. Did you know…? What year did Native people become American Citizens? What year were Native Americans legally able to vote in every state? What year did the year did Native people gain religious freedoms? 1978 1965 1920 1953 1924 1948 1870 1938 1924 1962 1930 1940
- 17. Fishing Wars…
- 18. History of Daybreak Star Cultural Center
- 20. Youth Trails & Restoration Cohort ● Indigenous youth job training program (ages 13-25) ● 2022 Cohort was 17 youth! ● Utilized GONA (Gathering of Native Americans) & Plant Teachings for Growing Social- Emotional Skills curriculum ● Youth learn traditional teachings of reciprocity and land stewardship
- 21. Indigenous Advisory Council “The main goal of this committee is to identify long-term actions to increase Indigenous access to parklands and to center Indigenous ecological knowledge in the park land management efforts”
- 22. Community Planting Parties ● Food Sovereignty vision at Daybreak Star Cultural Center ● 2021 - Youth Trails Cohort & families welcomed Camas bulbs! ● 2021-2022 received and planted 5,000! ● 2022 receiving 4,000 plants
- 24. Important Questions: Do I know where the nearest Federally Recognized Tribe is? Do I know if there are any State Recognized Tribes in my area? Do I know who’s ceded territories I’m on? Do I know of any non-profit organizations that serve Native, Indigenous and BIPOC communities that I could partner with? Scan this code for the Native Land App!
- 25. More important questions: Do I know laws and policies (both federal and local) have created barriers for Native people to have access to traditional foods in usual and accustomed places? How do I support Sovereignty and Indigenous Leadership in my positionality? How can Traditional Ecological Knowledge help our future through Climate Crisis? How can Parks, Public Land, and National Forest work in solidarity with Native Communities to protect water, land for future generations?
- 26. Kw’aɬá nuu sha mash! Thank you!
Notes de l'éditeur
- According to the 2000 Census 70% of Native folks lived in cities, 30% on Reservations, those numbers have increased since the last census to anywhere between 72-78% according to an article in The Guardian As of 2022 574 Federally Recognized Tribes in the United States (bonus question: Has anyone ever heard of a State recognized tribe?) (“The list also includes Indian tribes or groups that are recognized by the states, when the state has established such authority. This acknowledges their status within the state but does not guarantee funding from the state or the federal government. State-recognized Indian tribes are not federally recognized; however, federally recognized tribes may also be state-recognized.” - National Conference of State Legislatures)
- 1924 - Indian Citizenship Act 1962 - Voting was guaranteed in every state but the Voting Rights Act of 1965 really made that more possible 1978- American Indian Religious Freedom Act
- Fishing Rights of tribes who utilize the Nisqually River as their Usual and Accustomed places Led to the Boldt Decision of 1974 which guaranteed Tribes rights to fish in their usual and accustomed places in ceded lands. Pictures taken from “Messages from Frank’s Landing” Book in 1970.
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- Inter tribal, dynamic, rooted in traditional teachings,
- Questions they can ask themselves
- By fighting for their lands, Indigenous peoples are fighting to save the planet. Although they comprise less than 5% of the world population, Indigenous peoples protect 80% of the Earth's biodiversity in the forests, deserts, grasslands, and marine environments in which they have lived for centuries.