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.

  • @AngryCommieKender
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    36 months ago

    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

      • @AngryCommieKender
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        56 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.