'A $1.6 million Climate Action Seed Grant is funding a project to survey the landscape and plan climate resilience projects on Indian allotment lands. The UC Davis-led project will utilize landscape surveys, climate modeling, and the expertise of allottees to understand what is on their land and how it has changed over the past 20 years. It will also provide allottees with support for navigating policies and fundraising for planning climate resilience projects on their land.

"We need to connect the dots and identify what needs to be done to support these culturally important landscapes’ survival in the face of climate change,” says Beth Rose Middleton Manning, professor in the Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis and principal investigator for the project. 

The state of California allocated $100 million to the University of California in 2022-23 to fund research grants supporting climate change resilience in communities across the state. 

UC Davis is one of three of the California Climate Action Seed Grant-funded research projects establishing collaborations between academic institutions and Tribal nations to support climate change resilience through tribal resource management."