Confronting climate change impacts, tribes prepare and persi

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.

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