Understanding Cultural Ecosystem Services related to Salmon in the Quinault Indian Nation
Presentation Abstract
The consideration of cultural ecosystem services is of growing interest to natural resource managers. Tools need to be developed and shared for identifying, measuring, and presenting the status of cultural services so that they can be monitored or their impacts considered when assessing potential management strategies. This presentation discusses the process for identifying, measuring, and presenting cultural indicators relevant to salmon in the Quinault Indian Nation. We first interviewed and coded the responses from 18 tribal adults and two high school classrooms to identify the diverse services associated with salmon. We then developed preliminary questions to test ways of measuring the status of those services. Twenty-four people responded to these questions in one of three formats: community workshop, online survey, or household survey. We present the services coded from the interviews and the current status of those services. We then discuss how such data can be used to monitor cultural services as well as consider different salmon habitat restoration scenarios based on their potential impacts to cultural services.
Session Title
Session S-09H: Trading Cultural Ecosystem Services from Data Collection to Decision Making
Conference Track
Social Science Plus
Conference Name
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2014 : Seattle, Wash.)
Document Type
Event
Start Date
2-5-2014 10:30 AM
End Date
2-5-2014 12:00 PM
Location
Room 607
Genre/Form
conference proceedings; presentations (communicative events)
Contributing Repository
Digital content made available by University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Cultural landscapes--Washington (State)--Pacific Coast; Quinault Indian Nation--Washington (State)--Pacific Coast; Salmon--Symbolic aspects--Washington (State)--Pacific Coast
Geographic Coverage
Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Pacific Coast (Wash.)
Rights
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Text
Language
English
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Understanding Cultural Ecosystem Services related to Salmon in the Quinault Indian Nation
Room 607
The consideration of cultural ecosystem services is of growing interest to natural resource managers. Tools need to be developed and shared for identifying, measuring, and presenting the status of cultural services so that they can be monitored or their impacts considered when assessing potential management strategies. This presentation discusses the process for identifying, measuring, and presenting cultural indicators relevant to salmon in the Quinault Indian Nation. We first interviewed and coded the responses from 18 tribal adults and two high school classrooms to identify the diverse services associated with salmon. We then developed preliminary questions to test ways of measuring the status of those services. Twenty-four people responded to these questions in one of three formats: community workshop, online survey, or household survey. We present the services coded from the interviews and the current status of those services. We then discuss how such data can be used to monitor cultural services as well as consider different salmon habitat restoration scenarios based on their potential impacts to cultural services.
