Anita Hofschneider

1 day ago | shastascout.org | Anita Hofschneider

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California, including the lower Blue Creek watershed, have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history. The Yurok people have lived, fished, and hunted along the Klamath for millennia.

2 days ago | truthout.org | Anita Hofschneider |Zack Kligler

The tribe says they will initiate restoration projects on the 17,000 acres taken from them during the gold rush. By Anita Hofschneider , Grist Published June 5, 2025 Standing at the edge of the Klamath River in rural northern California, a Yurok man leans into the river with his traditional dip net, about to land a salmon.Justin Lewis / Getty Images This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.

3 days ago | grist.org | Anita Hofschneider

More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California, including the lower Blue Creek watershed, have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history. 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. For the last two decades, the Yurok Tribe has been working with the nonprofit Western Rivers Conservancy to get its land back.

3 days ago | ecotopical.com | Anita Hofschneider

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4 days ago | civilbeat.org | Anita Hofschneider |Kim Gamel

The chaos is part of a broader pattern of the Trump administration to act quickly regardless of legality and reverse policies when needed. This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s Weekly newsletter here. When Native Hawaiian combat veteran Joseph Guzman-Simpliciano got back home to Hawaiʻi from Afghanistan and Iraq, he was shocked at how the burnt-out, abandoned cars lying by the side of the road on the west side of Oʻahu reminded him of the war zone he had just left.