The land at stake ranges from the far north's dense coastal forests to Southern California’s great expanses of brush. Experts ...

Some stories hurt before they even begin. Cheri Haarstad discovers she descends from an Alaska Native chief. She's done the research, with help from her husband. Found the village. Traced her ...

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

The rugged Klamath River in Oregon and California is running free again, mostly, for the first time in 100 years after the ...

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

Burney Falls overwhelmed by tourists, threatening a sacred Pit River tribal site.

Last year, we watched as the last of four dams were removed from the Klamath River in a historic endeavor. Karuk and Yurok citizens sighed in relief, grateful that decades of tribal-led activism ...

Karuk Tribal member Kathy McCovey tosses black-oak acorns to reseed her land in Happy Camp, ... have long been at the center of Karuk life. “We are salmon people,” Hillman has often said.

Karuk Tribe signs historic agreement with California to remove barriers to use of ‘good fire’ in land stewardship. ... Karuk people would still work secretly to put fire to land.

Last week, state legislators announced they’d secured $10,000,000 for the Karuk Tribe to build a center to host cultural and prescribed fire trainings in rural northeast Humboldt County.

The Karuk Tribe of northern California recently became the first to reach an agreement with the California ... his people would have roughly 7,000 fires per year to burn off fuel such as dead ...