For decades, the tribe’s annual Pinenut Festival and blessing has been held the third week of September the month the rabbitbrush turns yellow and it’s time to harvest. But now the weather and the seasons are different, says Andrea Martinez, the chair of the Walker River Paiute Tribe.
Ideally, the mouth of a river should be narrow and deep. But sediment buildup makes the delta in Pyramid Lake too shallow and wide to protect spawning fish from opportunistic predators.
The latest effort from the Smart from the Start partnership is a recently completed series of three webinars that addressed different aspects of renewable energy siting.