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.
Nothing can ever be good.
Progress is impossible.
It’s not worth trying.
And it’s completely and totally meaningless that the tribe wants this.
I don’t even know what your fucking agenda is. Time travel?
It’s another shit sandwich of government giving a tribe a slab of a toxic dump to give themselves a pat on the back.
Nothing can ever be good. We get it.
Says someone who’s never been to Humboldt, let alone orick. And please keep it that way, there are too many of your type in McKinleyville already.