Climate change, past land use and growing infrastructure plans are some of the present and future drivers of change to the basin. For the Skolt Saami, climate change is one of the most acute and relevant processes of indigenous knowledge led monitoring (Mustonen & Feodoroff, 2013, Peel, Araujo, Bell, Blanchard, & Bonebrake, 2017). In 2010, extreme heat waves and torrential rains affected the water levels of the Naatamo river and the capacity of Atlantic Salmon to access the upstream spawning grounds.