Marcela Tayaba
Habitat Restoration Specialist - Enviromental Department • Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians
Marcela Resultay-Tayaba is a member of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians and serves as the Habitat Restoration Specialist for her tribe. After serving as a youth intern for the tribe’s Environmental Department for five years Marcela went on to obtain a bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences with an emphasis on Ecological Restoration as well as minors in Forestry and Natural Resources from Cal Poly Humboldt. Since graduating she has returned to work for her tribe’s Environmental Department and has dedicated her efforts to the revitalization of her ancestral language and traditional food practices. She hopes to inspire tribal youth and others to connect and honor nature through traditional practices and bringing tribal community together for cultural burning, and land/water conservation. Marcela’s main role is to oversee the implementation of restoration projects lead by state, federal, and private agencies both on and off Tribal Lands. Her main duties include creating restoration plans and managing the tribal nursery, including collecting seeds and growing plants to be used in restoration projects. She is also responsible for grant management, overseeing the tribal community garden and managing various Clean Water Act projects on tribal land. It is important to her that every project incorporates culture, revitalizes traditional practices, provides education to the public, and provides Native youth the opportunity to learn and take ownership and pride in restoring our lands.
