Getting better weather and climate data to Indian Country can help improve farming and ranching while nurturing Indigenous traditional knowledge, through a new University of Montana project.
UM’s Montana Climate Office received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute on Food and Agriculture to expand “climate hubs” in 10 regions across the western United States. The hubs will help place new weather data collection sites on reservations and make sure rain...