Bristol Bay Climate Adaptation Planning Program

Recipient: Bristol Bay Native Association
Funding Amount: $2,000,000

Led by a consortium of 31 federally recognized tribes, the project will center Indigenous knowledge and practices in climate adaptation planning, identifying community needs and priorities and creating solid, tangible solutions for a historically underserved population in a remote, hard-to-access area of Alaska. Partners from across the Bristol Bay region will join together in a three-phase project that will establish the Bristol Bay Regional Resilience Collaborative to coordinate regional climate adaptation planning while prioritizing education, action, and implementation. This will build enduring capacity and integrate climate adaptation into all facets of regional planning, securing a resilient future that sustains the communities’ natural resources, way of life, and economy.

For more information on the grant program funding this project, please visit the Inflation Reduction Act webpage. For more information on the Climate Resilience Regional Challenge, visit the Office for Coastal Management’s resilience challenge webpage.