Our Tribes have a responsibility to steward, protect, and restore the ocean and coastal resources within our ancestral territories. We seek to establish long-term, consistent engagement with state and federal agencies, while implementing Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (ITK) and Tribal Science into management practices.
The TMSN is reclaiming our right to manage and steward our ocean and coastal territories, particularly those within and adjacent to Marine Protected Areas. With funding support from the Ocean Protection Council, the TMSN is engaged in numerous monitoring and community engagement initiatives. Much of our work is done together, but each member Tribe has unique initiatives that are centered around the collective work and goals of the TMSN.
Tribal partners are leading stewardship, management, and research efforts to fulfill our inherent rights and responsibility to manage and maintain the cultural and ecological resilience of California ocean and coastal resources and ecosystems.
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Tribal partners support community well-being, economic security, and wealth-building through stewardship-focused employment opportunities and increasing access to knowledge that supports Tribal citizens to advance in their careers.
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Tribal citizens are reliant on the continued use of their ancestral territories, and Tribal partners are revitalizing or maintaining cultural practices and lifeways to ensure the continuance of our cultural identities.
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Tribal partners are collaborating to increase Tribally led management to protect ancestral ocean and coastal resources and ecosystems.
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