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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
