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News stories about the Native Resilience project, our research team, partners, drought, water resources, climate change, and current events in the intermountain west.
Boise State Public Radio, February 20, 2026. Snowpack levels in the Mountain West are below average heading into runoff season. For many tribal producers, snowmelt is essential for irrigation, livestock, and sustaining traditional foods tied to seasonal water cycles. To help communities prepare, a spring webinar series through the Native Resilience Project is focused on adapting to ongoing snow drought conditions. By Daniel Spaulding of the Mountain West News Bureau/Boise State Public Radio.
National Native News, Tuesday, February 24, 2026. Declining snowpack is affecting tribal agriculture and traditional food systems across the West. A new webinar series from the Native Resilience project is helping Indigenous communities adapt. Reposted from a story by Daniel Spaulding of the Mountain West News Bureau/Boise State Public Radio.
Nevada Current, November 2025. A $20 million Community Change Grant to the Walker River Paiute Tribe was terminated as part of Trump’s executive order to eliminate DEI across the government. By Jennifer Solis. Reposted by the Reno Gazette-Journal.
Native Science Report, March 2024. Melanie Lenart reports on a presentation by Shannon Niebergs afrom a Native Climate Working Group meeting.
Native Science Report, March 2024. Melanie Lenart reports from the Southwest Adaptation Forum.
USDA Climate Hubs, Dec 2023. An overview of the Native Climate project and recent accomplishments from the fall of 2023.
Sierra Nevada Ally, July 2023. Kelsey Fitzgerald reports on a traditional foods potluck dinner that was held as part of the first Nevada Tribal Foods Summit, a conference held at UNR Lake Tahoe on May 31-June 2, on the traditional lands of the Washoe people.
USDA-NIFA, 27 September 2022. Margaret Lawrence.
Nevada Independent, 22 September 2022. Daniel Rothberg mentions Native Climate under “Here’s what else I’m watching this week…”
Daily Yonder, Kristi Eaton. 10 February 2022.
Tribal Business News, Chez Oxendine. 31 January 2022.
University of Montana. 24 January 2022.
Tribal Business News, Chez Oxendine. 23 January 2022.
Desert Research Institute. Grant announcement, 13 January 2022.