Traditional pottery

• Restore and protect critical areas from erosion and aridity by revegetating native grasses and plants to help sustain their availability for future use in traditional activities.

• Teach community members, particularly Tribal youth, about gathering clay and volcanic ash to ensure the transfer of traditional knowledge and sustainable practices.

Ceremony and prayers

• Restore and enhance habitat on the Pueblo to attract game, birds, and other wildlife; and re-establish populations of native plants in least-vulnerable and most-suitable areas or refugia.

• Share traditional knowledge about natural resources used in ceremonies and prayers, and teach Pueblo youth to identify resources and strengthen their stewardship of these resources in traditional settings, such as in the kiva or a Tewa language class.

Growing traditional crops

• Maintain traditional agricultural knowledge by developing a resilient farm plan that can support the transfer of knowledge from elders to youth and for future generations.

• Establish a seed bank to preserve seeds of culturally significant plants.

• Improve the community garden to grow culturally important plants to strengthen the Pueblo’s food sovereignty and provide an alternative plant source for ceremonies and prayers.

Sacred places (e.g., springs)

• Develop a plan to improve understanding of groundwater levels around the Pueblo’s sacred springs.

• Enhance water retention and facilitate groundwater recharge to protect and maintain sacred springs and other water sources.

• Implement erosion control measures, such as rock steps or terraced wooden erosion barriers, along routes to sacred places.

Culturally important places

• Work with emergency responders to identify how Pueblo staff can accompany emergency responders on Pueblo lands.

• Evaluate emergency response systems to identify actions to limit impacts to culturally important places during response efforts.

• Develop and share a map of areas that are off limits to emergency managers (without disclosing details about sacred or cultural information) and/or that are accessible, where emergency managers can travel on the Pueblo.

Wildfires

• Work with members of the Pueblo, including youth and elders, and other partners to develop a study plan focused on landscape management practices to best protect the Pueblo against wildfire-related impacts.

• Develop and implement a fire mitigation program throughout the Pueblo. Build community awareness about strategies to reduce fire risk to homes and community structures, and engage community members in fire-mitigation activities.

• Implement fire mitigation practices around all culturally important and critical infrastructure.

Youth outdoor activities

• Plant native trees or shrubs and install shade structures to increase canopy cover and create shade over recreational areas, such as the playground, fishing pond, and baseball field.

• Move outdoor activities, such as youth sports or community gatherings, to designated indoor spaces during periods of poor air quality.

Clean air

• Limit outdoor and recreational activities during periods of poor air quality.

• Use or advance an existing alert system to warn the community about poor air-quality days and extreme events.

• Establish an air-quality monitoring system for the Pueblo.

• Install climate control and air filtration systems in the Pueblo's gym and other facilities to create a safe space that can protect the community from extreme heat and wildfire smoke, and accommodate year-round indoor sports and activities.

• Encourage community members to create cool and clean air spaces at home that can reduce exposure to extreme heat and wildfire smoke.

Water supply

• Evaluate and develop water supply sources.

• Develop a community awareness and outreach program to promote strategies for water conservation.

Traditional practices stress

• Seek out family counseling resources and provide materials to families on the Pueblo.

• Establish other opportunities for the community to connect, including increased access to internet and broadband to increase communication.

Mobilization of contaminants

• Consider ways to adapt Tribal lifeways to minimize exposure to contaminants and climate hazards, and then conduct outreach to communicate the risks of mobilization to contaminants on the Pueblo and adaptation measures through flyers/bulletin, social media, and community events.

• Coordinate and consult with LANL on adaptation planning and implementation within the LANL facility, to reduce contaminated runoff to Pueblo lands.

• Monitor for increased exposure to contaminants on the Pueblo.

Exposure to chemicals and health

• Reduce other stressors, such as removing household chemicals and improving home ventilation.

• Install and maintain air filtration systems or air purification systems in their homes to reduce exposure to air pollution.

Place-based culture

• Build on the farm program to develop a self-supporting and self-sustaining agricultural system that can ensure food sovereignty – the right of Pueblo people to health and culturally appropriate food using sustainable and ecologically sound methods.

• Establish agreements with other Pueblos and communities to obtain access to natural resources as the ranges of traditional plants and animals shift with changing environmental and climate conditions.

• Acquire climate refugia areas (e.g., via land purchase) to ensure traditional natural resources in the future.

• Enhance government-to-government relationships with state and federal agencies to inform resilience planning and collaborate on implementing resilience actions.

Pueblo departments

• Convene regular meetings with representatives from each Pueblo department to identify specific issues that would benefit from cross-departmental coordination.

• Implement a coordinated effort to identify and assign department-specific duties.

Firefighting

• Review and assess systems for communicating and coordinating with firefighters outside of the Pueblo.

• Establish water supply or temporary water storage structures for fire suppression.

Critical infrastructure

• Implement fire mitigation practices around all critical infrastructure.

• Incorporate resiliency measures into future wastewater treatment system upgrades and expansions.

• Build drought and flood resiliency into irrigation ditch and canal upgrades on the Pueblo.

• Develop maps of potential utility hazards and key infrastructure.