Restoring the Klamath through Indigenous Stewardship
Outlets are still buzzing with the news of FERC issuing the final license surrender order for 4 Klamath River dams, and a lot of other great stories have gotten lost in the excitement. Karuk's Land Legislation has moved on to the next step, and cultural burn practitioners are making headlines.
Explore the pieces below to learn more.
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Karuk Sacred Lands Legislation Moves Forward | News Blog
A little more than one year after being introduced by North Coast Rep. Jared Huffman, the Katimiîn and Ameekyáaraam Sacred Lands Act has passed out of the House Natural Resources Committee, bringing a nearly decade-long effort by the Karuk Tribe to once again care for these lands one step closer to fruition.
During Visit to Klamath River, Secretary Haaland Announces Four Tribal Water Projects | U.S. Department of the Interior
Interior announced today that four Tribal water projects in Oregon and California's Klamath River Basin will receive $5.8 million to mitigate the effects of the ongoing drought crisis.
Indigenous knowledge guides the conservation of culturally important plants
Since time immemorial, the Karuk tribe of northern California have managed their ancestral lands, over 400,000 hectares of open oak woodlands, meadows, and forested mountains along the middle section of the Klamath River. They used low-level fires to maintain a healthy landscape for the plants central to their culture. But after settlers arrived in California, […]
The ‘Paddle Tribal Waters’ Project Empowers Indigenous Youth - Redheaded Blackbelt
A group of native youth plan to lead the first descent of the restored river from source-to-sea in whitewater kayaks."
California needs to burn. Native women are leading the way.
Decades of fire suppression, logging and climate change have resulted in catastrophic wildfires in California. A group of Indigenous women from the Karuk tribe in Northern California are bringing back a centuries-old practice of prescribed burning in order to help manage a landscape that’s been pushed wildly out of balance.
Tribe and partners light up a forest to restore landscape in California
ORLEANS, California—An elemental smell wafts through the Klamath mountains in early autumn—woodsmoke. Despite the U.S. Forest Service’s intermittent bans on lighting fires in the forest, the Karuk Tribe is maintaining its cultural practice of intermittent burns to conserve their traditional lands in northern California. With the Tribe’s oversight, a partnership with the Forest Service and […]
Australian First Nations women travel to US to exchange knowledge on cultural burning practices - ABC News
In a world shaped by climate change, could cultural burning practices be the key to fighting catastrophic bushfires?
Tribal Traditions: The Burning Battle (Part 2) - To The Point | abc10.com
The effects of cultural burning go beyond catastrophic fires but directly affect the ecosystem.
Unchecked pollution is contaminating the salmon that Pacific Northwest tribes eat - OPB
For decades, the U.S. government has failed to test for dangerous chemicals and metals in fish. So, we did. What we found was alarming for tribes.
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Klamath River Unleashed - Fly Fisherman
With toxic dams on the way out, the Klamath could soon regain its former glory.
This one fact will completely change how you think about California wildfires
The rash of mega-fires in recent years has stunned Californians. But one astonishing fact stands out amid the devastation: Even more of the California landscape used to be on fire.
Opinion | A Once Dormant Karuk Tribe Celebration of Girlhood Returns - The New York Times
In “Long Line of Ladies,” the Karuk people celebrate a girl’s first period in a coming-of-age ceremony.
Karuk Tribe equates water thefts to more white subjugation | The Sacramento Bee
Carrying a pair of 20-foot wooden poles with a net strung between them, Ron Reed shimmied above the Klamath River across wooden boards perched between slippery boulders. He paused and stared into the white foam. With a lunge, Reed, a 60-year-old fisherman who belongs to the Karuk Tribe, thrust his dip net into the Klamath’s swirling current.
Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/article267990507.html#storylink=cpy
Sale jumpstarts floating, offshore wind power in U.S. waters
Offshore wind is well established in the U.K. and some other countries but is just beginning to ramp up off America’s coasts.
