Focused Expertise
Energy
Whether the objective is to identify the best ways to improve access to reliable and affordable energy, grow the current energy supply, diversify the local economy by gaining a stronger foothold in the energy industry, or pinpoint business and partnership opportunities that involve renewable and nonrenewable energy sources, SEE Renewal is uniquely positioned to assist.
Our consultants and specialists have worked with tribal nations, federal government, and other public and private stakeholders on a range of energy planning, policy, enforcement, and other energy projects that directly involve tribal communities, American Indian lands, and on-reservation resources. We have boots-on-the-ground experience developing strategic energy and program plans as well as performing front-end market analysis, federal and tribal policy studies, land evaluations, resource capacity and constraints analysis, and related assessments.
At SEE Renewal, our work is centered around listening to the client and special-interest stakeholders in order to identify not just any opportunity or potential solution, but those that uniquely fit the client’s specific circumstances. We work side by side with our clients to promote the types of innovative energy, land, and resource solutions that best fit their unique needs. Our services go beyond simply providing information. We push past standard expectations to assure that the client is not only oriented toward long-term goals but also firmly on a path that is specifically developed to accommodate the organization and the conditions in which it operates.
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Land Use
Our advisory, technical, and support services will help you better anticipate future conditions, gain greater control over land patterns, make more efficient use of resources, leverage off-reservation and regional developments, and take advantage of tribal authorities and sovereignty to pursue quality development and economic opportunities.
We are well-qualified and experienced consultants and specialists who are skilled at assessing the best use of lands and resources, researching and formulating rules and zoning regulations to help the government achieve more desirable land patterns and stronger economies, identifying sound development strategies, and walking clients through issues that may arise from regulatory constraints, environmental concerns, and other variables.
At SEE Renewal, we meet with a variety of stakeholders and engage in political processes to help our clients gather the information needed to better understand jurisdictional nuances, anticipate future conditions, prepare for shifts in policy, take advantage of new technologies, understand changing market conditions, better communicate projects and plans, and gain public support. Our consultants and specialists are well-qualified to engage in the types of technical work required to develop small-area, strategic, and comprehensive plans, perform feasibility analysis, evaluate land constraints, assess and formulate zoning and other land regulations, and prepare decision memoranda and other oral and written reports to better understand the issues around a particular initiative and inform future decision-making.
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Natural Resources
At SEE Renewal, our consultants and specialists have experience working on a wide range of projects and initiatives that involve on-reservation resources, such as wildlife, water, fish, vegetation, and minerals. We offer unique areas of knowledge and have direct experience working on high-level issues involving American Indian lands, including those relating to on-reservation land trespass, undesirable incidents, and other violations of tribal resources.
Whether a tribal government, private-sector business, or other intermediary, SEE Renewal is well qualified to provide the specialized assistance needed to identify how to make the most productive, efficient, and safe use of lands and resources. We have working knowledge of Indian country, and we have experience evaluating land utilization and associated resource management activities, authorities, and obligations.
Our work is focused on values-based development. We are trained to evaluate a range of factors that are needed to understand resource management within a particular jurisdiction, such as those relating to local and regional infrastructure, sustainable yield, economy, workforce development, value-added industries, earth health, and climate. At SEE Renewal, we develop a range of technical products intended to assist with identifying, evaluating, and managing on-reservation and tribally owned resources.
Focused Expertise
Focused Expertise
Community Development
SEE Renewal is uniquely positioned to assist clients with a range of community development initiatives that are aimed at enhancing community well-being, strengthening tribal economies, and improving access to high-quality, affordable housing and other infrastructure.
We are qualified community engagement facilitators, objective researchers, and planners who have experience working with a wide range of stakeholders, including tribal and off-reservation communities, on a variety of community planning projects and locally led initiatives.
At SEE Renewal, our work is centered on listening, mediating, mobilizing resources, and nurturing relationships that foster collaboration and cultivate knowledge-sharing between stakeholders. The planning process reinforces common and shared values and is used to launch new and innovative solutions that are unique to a given community.
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Government
We are uniquely positioned to assist tribal governments tackle program and policy issues that require specialized knowledge to identify how to best access and deploy critical resources. Our consultants and specialists bring broad perspectives and have experience working at all levels of government. At SEE Renewal, we are planners, technical experts, and program and policy specialists who are trained to assist government leaders and staff with better leveraging internal expertise and gaining the support of outside intermediaries to access necessary resources.
SEE Renewal has experience developing a range of strategic governance plans, program plans, emergency preparedness plans, subject briefings and decision memoranda for tribal leaders and special-interest stakeholders. We also have experience conducting in-depth research on tribal and federal policy and programs that are important for growing tribal economies, gaining energy independence, improving overall community welfare, and ensuring trust obligations are fulfilled.
SEE Renewal’s work is focused on identifying the best ways to increase internal capacities, improve professional skills needed to support the tribal government by utilizing resources efficiently; identifying, justifying, and accessing needed resources; and developing and implementing realistic strategies marked by achievable actions toward long-term goals.
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Public Relations
At SEE Renewal, we help tribal governments and private-sector organizations to effectively communicate with a broad range of audiences in order to achieve a more strategic position, keep the public informed of activities and new policy, build mutually beneficial relationships, and enhance reputation and gain trust.
We have experience with managing a variety of tribal stakeholders, including tribal leaders, staff, tribal enterprises, tribally-owned utilities, federal and state representatives, and private-sector stakeholders, on high-level and high-priority issues related to energy development, land and resource management, and threats to tribal energy supply and distribution.
We work with clients who need to gain internal and external support and have their accomplishments recognized in order to generate a more positive perception across stakeholders. SEE Renewal can assist clients in a variety of ways, including building rapport between governmental bodies, the public, and special-interest stakeholders; validating efforts made toward organizational goals; and increasing internal and external accountability.