As a youngster, Barry McCovey Jr. would sneak through metal gates and hide from security guards just to catch a steelhead ...

It's being called the largest land return deal in California's history. Yurok Fisheries Department Director Barry McCovey tells NPR's Scott Detrow what it means for the Yurok Tribe and for the land.

After 120 years of displacement, the Yurok Tribe of California earned a significant victory—the return of 73 square miles of ...

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 ...

Chumash descendants raise their long paddles to the sky as they arrive by tomol at Scorpion Anchorage, Limuw (Santa Cruz Island) in December 2014. (Karen ...

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.

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.

The Yurok, California’s largest Indigenous tribe, lost ownership of Blue Creek to westward U.S. expansion in the late 1800s. In 2002, a timber company, negotiating with the Yurok, ...

The Yurok tribe of northern California has achieved what once seemed impossible: reclaiming the 19,000-hectare (47,000-acre) watershed of Blue Creek, ...

The Yurok Tribe has the resources and the deep cultural connections that sustained this land for millennia, and now they can continue to do so.” The Yurok Tribe’s sustainable forestry practices aim to ...

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 ...

A historic land-back deal 20-plus years in the making is complete, more than doubling the Yurok Tribe's holdings after the ...