Outreach and Technical Assistance

TTCD provides expertise and technical assistance to District landowners planning conservation projects on their property. TTCD staff will assist landowners as they apply for and manage funding from the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) or help identify applicable funding from another source.

TTCD has three overarching technical assistance priorities:

Tribal Conservation Districts best meet their conservation goals when working in partnership with other districts. TTCD provides in person outreach to Alaska’s other Tribal Conservation Districts, connecting TCD’s with conservation resources and demonstrating how these practices can be applied most effectively to small, rural, and tribal projects. TTCD has experience partnering with federal and state agencies, universities and nonprofits to leverage technical expertise and funding to make tribally-led conservation projects a success. TTCD is dedicated to co-creating a network with other tribal conservation districts to pursue collaborative projects.

TTCD Watershed-scale Coastal Resilience Planning

The Tyonek Tribal Conservation District has been funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s National Coastal Resilience Fund to create a watershed-scale Coastal Resilience Plan in partnership with the Native Village of Tyonek, Tyonek Native Corporation, Tebughna Foundation, and other district stakeholders..

The goals of the Coastal Resilience Plan are:

To understand and assess threats and opportunities posed to the watershed by climate-driven ecosystem change and industrial incursion; and
develop community-driven and culturally relevant strategies to build resilience to change, incorporating multi-sector needs of Tyonek residents.

Objectives:

Create a comprehensive assessment of both positive and negative impacts to the community of Tyonek, and interconnectedly, subsistence species, as posed by climate-driven ecosystem change and industrial incursion.
Develop a reflexive, culturally appropriate process for identifying and prioritizing activities to address multi-sector needs of the Tyonek residents.
Integrate the prioritized activities into a community action plan that supports rolling scope of work based on a 5-year, 10-year, 20-year, and “seven generations” timeline.

TTCD has several community outreach events planned during the course of this project. Follow our Facebook page to get up to date information on events and other ways to participate in the climate adaptation process. Documents from this process will be available on our Community Resources page.