AN OVERVIEW OF THE QUINAULT INDIAN NATIONs ONGOING

AN OVERVIEW OF THE QUINAULT INDIAN NATION's ONGOING INVOLVEMENT WITH THE EXCHANGE NETWORK GRANT PROGRAM NCAI Tribal Exchange Network Meeting Palm Springs, CA April 2008

- Reservation covers ~207, 000 acres - Plus fishing and hunting rights outside in the “Usual & Accustomed” Areas - Contains 600 plus miles of mapped rivers & streams - >25 water quality monitoring sites

- Collect ph, dissolved oxygen, temperature, turbidity, E-coli, & analytes for organic compounds and metals, & tissue samples - One air quality monitoring site, to monitor the effects of slash pile burnings from timber harvests - Off-reservation the Nation has co-management responsibilities of multiple fisheries with the State of Washington: salmon, crab, razor clams, amongst many

- The air and water quality programs have been ongoing for 7+ years – much data has been collected - Both programs are supported by EPA-funding - EPA funding of the water quality program comes from several grants: - 106 funding - 319 funding - GAP funding

Past Activities: - Applied for and received an Exchange Network Readiness Grant in FY 2004 - This grant was primarily used to “beef up” the tribal network’s infrastructure: - Purchased new server, GIS workstations - Built up principal network backbone to transmit data at gigabit speed - Funded training for server administration and intranet mapping capability development

The “Business” Drivers: : - The Quinault Nation has business needs to consolidate the accumulated water quality data into a unified database to make the - information more usable and accessible - The EPA has mandated water quality data reporting for its 106 -funded grants since 2006, prior to that it was voluntary - Application by the Nation for “treatment as a “state” by the EPA with respect to water quality standards

- The Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission has received an Exchange Network grant to establish a WQX node, along with providing outreach - and technical support to its member tribes - The Nation is a Commission member tribe, and has been designated one of two pilots for testing - The Water Quality Exchange has “matured” with regards to standards and developed schemas

The Future: - The Nation has submitted a grant proposal for a second round of Exchange Network funding - This grant’s principal goals are: - Consolidate all water quality data into a a single database - Map the existing water quality data to the WQX schema and establish workflows to incorporate future data

- Migrate this database to SQL Server 2005 to provide secure, managed, multi-user access to the data - establish a client node and test its connection to the NWIFC WQX node, in anticipation of establishing a production node - Provide for an additional server to allow for the separation of applications server and the data management server functions

- Support tribal participation in the Exchange Network’s governance structure, specifically the Network Technical Group (NTG) - Extend the network’s gigabit transmission to the tribal Planning department located in the lower village to enhance their data access capabilities

Some Issues & Concerns: - Tribal concern over the release of data into the “public” domain – its uses and potential adverse impacts - The ability to attract and keep the IT personnel necessary to operate and maintain the exchange infrastructure, given the constant changes that arise from ongoing changes in the associated technologies - The desire to see the incorporation of geospatial capabilities to the Exchange Network. See the data in the context of a “map” - like in Google Earth

What we wish to protect and sustain for the future

THANK YOU Questions: Please contact Tony Hartrich, QDNR GIS Program Manager Phone: 360 -276 -8215, ext. 479 e-mail: thartrich@quinault. org