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The Yurok will be the first Native people to manage tribal land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed Tuesday by the tribe, Redwood National and State Parks and the nonprofit Save the Redwoods League.

The agreement “starts the process of changing the narrative about how, by whom and for whom we steward natural lands,” Sam Hodder, president and CEO of Save the Redwoods League, said in a statement.

The tribe will take ownership in 2026 of 125 acres (50 hectares) near the tiny Northern California community of Orick in Humboldt County after restoration of a local tributary, Prairie Creek, is complete under the deal. The site will introduce visitors to Yurok customs, culture and history, the tribe said.

Much of the property was paved over by a lumber operation that worked there for 50 years and also buried Prairie Creek, where salmon would swim upstream from the Pacific to spawn.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Holy shit!!

please set a precedent, please set a precedent, please set a precedent

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hope we don’t discover gold there too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

We reserve the right to bring freedom wherever necessary. 'MURICA! FUCK YEAH!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ah, the typical "we'll give you back the land once we've exhausted all it's resources and now you get to clean it up".

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Nothing can ever be good.

Progress is impossible.

It's not worth trying.

And it's completely and totally meaningless that the tribe wants this.

I don't even know what your fucking agenda is. Time travel?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They're getting help to restore everything back to pre-colonization.

Last week, a 2.2-acre (.9-hectare) parking lot was returned to the Ohlone people where they established the first human settlement beside San Francisco Bay 5,700 years ago. In 2022, more than 500 acres (200 hectares) of redwood forest on the Lost Coast were returned the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, a group of 10 tribes.

The ’O Rew property represents just a tiny fraction of the more than 500,000 acres of the ancestral land of the Yurok, whose reservation straddles the lower 44 miles (70 kilometers) of the Klamath River. The Yurok tribe is also helping lead efforts in the largest dam removal project in U.S. history along the California-Oregon border to restore the Klamath and boost the salmon population.

Plans for ‘O Rew include a traditional Yurok village of redwood plank houses and a sweat house. There also will be a new visitor and cultural center displaying scores of sacred artefacts from deerskins to baskets that have been returned to the tribe from university and museum collections, Clayburn said.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

A good start would be returning to them jurisdiction of national and state parks, as well as BLM land and ancient ruins.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if that will end the same way it did in Kentucky. They were growing pretty well for the first couple hundred years, but then a tornado blew them all down cause they don't have a deep Taproot, but more of a wide surface level root structure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. I don't think the UK has many tornadoes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Historically that's been true. Mainland Europe has been hit by tornadoes in the last few years where there had never been tornadoes before, and if The North Atlantic Current Fails, The UK will be in for some absolutely wild weather. Not gonna even try to predict what could happen then.