Humboldt County’s eight California condors are branching out, venturing for an overnight stay on the Yurok Reservation near Blue Creek earlier this week, marking their first exploration of the lower Klamath River. A little more than a year has passed since the first two of the endangered birds with a nearly 10-foot wingspan, known to […]
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Huffman Introduces Bill to Return Land to the Yurok Tribe
North Coast Congressmember Jared Huffman on Tuesday introduced legislation known as the “Yurok Lands Act,” a bill that seeks clear the way for the transfer of more than 1,000 acres of ancestral lands back to the tribe from the U.S. Forest Service and redraws the reservation boundary line to encompass that area and others acquired […]
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Conservancy Group Turns to Crowdsourcing for $5 Million Klamath Tributary Buy
The Western Rivers Conservancy has launched an ambitious crowdfunding campaign to purchase a 10,000-acre tract of of land that contains a significant Klamath River tributary. Blue Creek runs into the Klamath River 16 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean, just inside Humboldt County’s border before the river flows into Del Norte County past the town […]