Naa-yvlh-te

To care for, watch over, protect, and take care of

How CALCS Works

Step 1: Stay Informed
Sign up to receive meeting notices, policy updates, and action alerts.

Step 2: Participate
Attend bi-weekly CALCS working group meetings or special issue sessions (land use, offshore wind, development proposals, etc.).

Step 3: Take Action Together
CALCS discussions inform NAIC-led public comments, advocacy, and accountability efforts — so community concerns are elevated in the right places.

No applications.
No dues.
No boards to join.

Just clear pathways to show up.

Caretakers Alliance for Landscape & Community Stewardship (CALCS)

You care about this place — and you want to protect it.
CALCS helps you understand what’s happening, show up effectively, and take action — together.

Join the CALCS Update List

(No membership. No dues. Just clear ways to participate.

Across the Southwestern Oregon Coast, decisions about land use, energy development, and natural resources are being made quickly — often without clear transparency or meaningful community input.

If you care about the land, the water, and the people who live here, it can feel overwhelming to know:

  • Where decisions are happening

  • Who is responsible

  • How to show up without causing harm

  • And whether your voice even matters

The problem isn’t lack of care — it’s lack of coordination.

Decisions about homelands should not happen without accountability to the people most impacted.
Communities deserve transparency.
Indigenous stewardship must be centered.

That’s where CALCS comes in.

The Caretakers Alliance for Landscape & Community Stewardship (CALCS) is an Indigenous-led, place-based alliance that helps communities:

  • Track land-use and development decisions

  • Share information clearly and responsibly

  • Coordinate community response

  • Elevate concerns through the right Indigenous-led channels

CALCS is a program of the Northwest American Indian Coalition (NAIC), grounded in Indigenous stewardship and open to responsible community participation.

We’ve been navigating land-use, policy, and cultural protection work for years.
Our role is to guide — not control — and to make participation clear, respectful, and effective

Without coordination, decisions move forward quietly.
Voices are fragmented.
Sacred places, ecosystems, and community wellbeing are put at risk.

CALCS exists so people who care are no longer isolated or unsure how to act.

With CALCS, community members, Indigenous leaders, and partners work together to:

  • Protect lands and waters responsibly

  • Center Indigenous stewardship in decision-making

  • Strengthen transparency and accountability

  • Build long-term care for place, not just short-term reaction

Get Involved with CALCS

You don’t need to be an expert.
You don’t need a title.
You just need to care.

Sign up for CALCS updates & meeting notices

Secondary Ways to Support:

Any sacred site, burial, allotment, or ancestral information shared during CALCS meetings is referred to the Oregon Terminated Tribes Alliance (OTTA) for appropriate Indigenous-led handling and protection.

CALCS does not collect or store sensitive cultural data.