The Yurok Fire Department recently led a cultural burn demonstration near the Blue Lake Rancheria’s events center during the ...

An effort to return 73 square miles of forests to California’s Yurok Tribe has been completed. Organizers say the deal will ...

The dams and logging have damaged this important watershed for decades. The Yurok, California’s largest Indigenous tribe, lost ownership of Blue Creek to westward U.S. expansion in the late 1800s.

Since time immemorial, his ancestors from the Yurok Tribe had fished, hunted and gathered in this watershed flanked by coastal forests. But for more than 100 years, these lands were owned and managed ...

This historic transfer, completed in partnership with the Western Rivers Conservancy, includes vital salmon habitats, culturally significant sites and important river tributaries that the Yurok will ...

The Yurok people have lived, fished, and hunted along the Klamath for millennia. But when the California gold rush began, the tribe lost 90 percent of its territory.

The Yurok tribe of northern California has achieved what once seemed impossible: reclaiming the 19,000-hectare (47,000-acre) watershed of Blue Creek, a cold-water artery vital to salmon survival ...

Yurok Tribe members Tiana Williams-Claussen, left, and Morgan Clayburn make their way to Blue Creek while traveling on the Klamath River, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, in Humboldt County, Calif.

This week the Yurok Tribe, Western Rivers Conservancy, California Wildlife Conservation Board and the California State Coastal Conservancy announced that they had completed the largest land back ...

Tiana Williams-Claussen, director of the Yurok Tribe Wildlife Department, looks at footprints she believed to be of a black bear while walking on land that will be returned to the tribe Thursday ...

ABOUT THE DEAL Western Rivers Conservancy (WRC), the Yurok Tribe, the California Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) and the California State Coastal Conservancy (CSCC) completed the largest single ...