In September 2023, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation convened the Workshop for Building Drought Resilience in a Changing Climate with Upper Columbia and Missouri Basin Tribes.
This workshop, which built off of existing efforts to advance the NIDIS Tribal Drought Engagement Strategy, was an opportunity to explore pressing needs related to building drought resilience, and these discussions turned to larger issues and barriers that Tribal Nations face.
This synthesis, Rethinking Resilience: Toward Holistic Approaches to Drought Management on Tribal Lands in the Upper Columbia and Missouri River Basins, captures a range of best practices and opportunities that Tribal Nations, Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), and their partners identified to strengthen engagement and action around drought resilience during this workshop.