The Yurok Fire Department recently led a cultural burn demonstration near the Blue Lake Rancheria’s events center during the ...

To augment the fiber optic backbone, Yurok Telecom is constructing nine towers equipped with commercial-grade wireless ...

Chumash descendants raise their long paddles to the sky as they arrive by tomol at Scorpion Anchorage, Limuw (Santa Cruz Island) in December 2014. (Karen ...

After 120 years of displacement, the Yurok Tribe of California earned a significant victory—the return of 73 square miles of ...

WOOD RIVER, Ore.. Around 30 indigenous teens launched a 310-mile kayaking journey down the newly undammed Klamath River, reconnecting with their heritage and ...

This photo series capturing efforts to save the Chinook salmon of the Klamath river in the western US won the New Scientist Editors Award at the Earth Photo 2025 competition ...

More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River have been returned to the Yurok Tribe in California. NPR's Scott Detrow talks to Yurok Fisheries Department Director Barry McCovey.

It's being called the largest land return deal in California's history. Yurok Fisheries Department Director Barry McCovey tells NPR's Scott Detrow what it means for the Yurok Tribe and for the land.

An effort to return 73 square miles of forests to California’s Yurok Tribe has been completed. Organizers say the deal will ...

The Yurok Tribe has regained nearly 189 square kilometres of ancestral forestland along the Klamath River in northern California, more than doubling their land holdings and marking the largest ...

The Yurok tribe of northern California has achieved what once seemed impossible: reclaiming the 19,000-hectare (47,000-acre) watershed of Blue Creek, a cold-water artery vital to salmon survival ...

The Yurok people have lived, fished, and hunted along the Klamath for millennia. But when the California gold rush began, the tribe lost 90 percent of its territory.