Some 125 acres bordering Redwood National and State Parks will be handed back to the Yuroks.
Rosie Clayburn is a descendant of the Yurok Tribe, which had its territory — called 'O Rew in the Yurok language — ripped from them nearly two centuries ago.'As the natural world became completely decimated, so did the Yurok people,' she said.That decimation started when miners rushed in for gold, killing and displacing tens of thousands of Native Americans in California and ravaging the redwood trees for lumber.'Everything was extracted that was marketable,' Clayburn said.
' But the salmon population has dwindled to about one-quarter of what it was 20 years ago, according to a coalition of state and federal agencies.The tribe is working to bolster the fish's population by building a stream channel, two connected ponds and about 20 acres of floodplain.'You have salmon who provide for humans, but they also provide for other animals,' Clayburn said. 'And then when they spawn and die, they put nutrients back in the ground.
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