Northern California’s Karuk Tribe, the second largest in California, becomes the first tribe to reach such an agreement. Northern California’s Karuk Tribe has for more than a century faced ...

The Karuk Tribe of northern California recently became the first to reach an agreement with the California Natural Resources Agency and local air quality officials to practise cultural burns.

The tribe announced Thursday that it was the first to reach such an agreement with the California Natural Resources Agency.

Northern California’s Karuk Tribe has for more than a century faced significant restrictions on cultural burning — the setting of intentional fires for both ceremonial and practical purposes ...

Leaf Hillman, a member of the Karuk Tribe, above a former reservoir on the Klamath River in Hornbrook. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) ...