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California Condors May Be Nesting In Northern California For The First Time Since The 1800s
For a few tense hours, wildlife biologists in Northern California feared they were about to discover another tragedy involving one of America’s rarest birds. A transmitter attached to a male California condor suddenly stopped moving, triggering the kind of alert researchers often associate with death. But when conservationists tracked down the bird inside the remote…
Scientists Believe Condors May Be Breeding in Northern California Again
At first, it looked like something had gone terribly wrong. A signal came through from a tracking device attached to a California condor. The bird had not moved for hours. For conservationists who have spent decades trying to save this species, that kind of silence usually carries a heavy meaning. It often signals injury, poisoning,…
Yurok Tribe Reclaims 73 Square Miles of Ancestral Land in California’s Largest Land Back Deal
Barry McCovey Jr. knew he was trespassing. As a young boy in northwestern California, he would sneak through metal gates and hide from security guards, all for a chance to catch steelhead trout in Blue Creek. His ancestors from the Yurok Tribe had fished these waters since time immemorial. Yet for reasons that seemed incomprehensible…
California’s Yurok Tribe Wins Ancestral Lands Back That Were Taken Over 120 Years Ago
What if your family had been locked out of your ancestral home for over a century—only to be handed the keys back after generations of waiting, fighting, and hoping? Along California’s mist-shrouded Klamath River, that’s exactly what happened for the Yurok Tribe. Once stewards of nearly half a million acres of land, the Yurok lost…