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

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.

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

Last Friday, the office of California Senate President pro Tempore Mike McGuire (D-North Coast) announced “a $40 million investment approved by the California Transportation Commission today to ...

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.

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, ...

ABOUT THE DEAL Western Rivers Conservancy (WRC), the Yurok Tribe, the California Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) and the ...