I am Jerry BigEagle, I am the environmental Program Director for Upper Sioux Community Tribe. I have 18 years of fishery management experience, 8 years of forestry stream ecology experience, and 6 years of HR experience. I’ve recently been involved in a large bison reintroduction project. I have worked on several Climate Change projects where using incentive programs to increase carbon sink acres relative to carbon sequestration, which is applied to an atmospheric carbon-reduction equation, secondly working with Tribes to manage forested lands to prevent fires and doing a literature review of post fire riparian project which looks at how fire affects post stream water temperatures and shade rule related to fish habitat suitability; I have helped Tribes become more aware of PFAS threats- to consider alternative water sources, and conduct water sampling to test for PFAS chemicals. Part of my graduate research involved producing results for consumption advisories on the bioaccumulation of methylmercury in the tri-phospholipid layers of game fish. Other research included the study of IFIM which is the study of in-stream flows incremental methodology. IFIM helps to determine how large hydropower releases effect downstream fish habitat and juvenile salmon movements. IFIM is a 2D Model of big river systems used to make decisions of hydropower releases to protect salmon from dewatering. Other climate change issues Tribes are facing are food sovereignty, water quality, drinking water safety, habitat loss, funding solar power projects, electrification of their transportation infrastructure, emergency preparedness dealing with extreme weather changes, and human disease relative to globalization of disease spreading within population susceptibility.