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Learning to Burn Again
The burn plans were signed and all the permits finally granted. The crews, packing tools and wearing fire gear, gathered along Gold Dredge Road in Orleans. Firelines were in place. Then they waited,...
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Nip it in the Bud
Most gardeners in the Klamath-Trinity have encountered Peach Leaf Curl – the curled, deformed leaves that appear on peaches and nectarines in the early spring. Problem is, by the time it’s visible it...
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Surveillance and Sewage
The board then turned its attention to the meat of the meeting: Unfinished Business, in the shape of 1) a plan recently taking shape to install a system of surveillance cameras downtown, and 2) an...
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Meeting of the Fire Minds
During the summer, one of the driest on record, 220,000 acres were afire in the Klamath Forest and, at the peak, 6,800 firefighters were deployed. It all cost approximately $175 million. The Two Rivers...
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Feds Give Tribes Green Light to Grow and Sell Marijuana on Tribal Lands
A U.S. Department of Justice memorandum released last week opens the window for federally recognized tribes to grow and sell marijuana on tribal lands, raising a long debated issue among local tribes...
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Orphan Cub Finds Home Plate for the Holidays
An orphaned bear cub decided to go to school today. The cub climbed up the fence behind home plate on the High School boy’s baseball field on Highway 96. Hoopa Valley Tribal Forestry wildlife...
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Forest Management Plans Led By Community
One was a law passed in 2002 called the Healthy Forest Initiative. The timber industry welcomed it, but environmental groups renamed it the No-Tree-Left-Behind Act because it seemed to target removal...
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Talking Pot, Cannabis, Marijuana and Flowers in Hoopa
A citizen initiative to repeal the Hoopa Valley Tribe’s Title 34 slated for the April 28 primary election ballot has conversations at council, community and kitchen tables on the rise.
View ArticleSan Luis Settlement Agreement Would Forever Condemn The Hoopa Valley Tribe to...
The Hoopa Valley Tribe filed its objection today to two bills proposed in the House of Representatives H.R. 4366 and H.R. 5217 intended to implement the San Luis Settlement Agreement.
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Tribe Starts Endowment As Alternative To Grant Funding
The Karuk Tribe may not have flocks of rich alumni, but this month its fundraising crossed the threshold to begin its own endowment. Bill Tripp announced that the Karuk Endowment for Eco-Cultural...
View ArticleFire Crews Make Progress On Wooley Creek Blaze
Firefighters are battling a wildfire in a tributary of Wooley Creek in the Marble Mountain Wilderness near Somes Bar. Early last week Forest Service officials said the blaze was caused by two lost...
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Humboldt County, CAMP, Fish and Wildlife Bust Trespass Marijuana Grows
On Thursday and Friday, July 7-8 the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) along with CAMP (Campaign Against Marijuana Planting) personnel, and Fish & Wildlife Officers...
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Slack Management of Wilderness Grazing gets Scrutiny from Tribes and...
There was a question of what might be the source, possibly recreational hikers in the wilderness, but the University of Montana conducted a statistical analysis with the first seven years of the Quartz...
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Youth Protest Pollution From Klamath Strait Drain
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.–Monday, July 18, a group of youth including members of several tribes, orchestrated three dynamic protests to demand a thorough clean-up of the polluted Klamath Strait Drain, which...
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Karuk Tribe Holds Its Own Climate Study Session
EcoAdapt, a non-profit outfit, was writing a risk assessment about climate change for the federal land management agencies that control much of Northern California. They invited stakeholders to...
View ArticleFox Near Orleans Tests Positive For Rabies
The Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) Public Health Laboratory confirmed that a fox from the Orleans area has tested positive for rabies. Testing was conducted following an incident that...
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Karuk Fishermen at Ishi Pishi Falls, Still Dipnet Salmon Traditional Style
Brian Tripp is well known for his gifts—poet and painter, sculptor and ceremonial singer—but he has another gift besides. He seems able to talk me into things.
View ArticleHoopa Valley Tribe Announces Strategic Partnership with PJ Woodlands LLC
November 1, 2016 – The Hoopa Valley Tribe (Tribe) announced today that it has agreed to enter into a strategic partnership with PJ Woodlands LLC, the owner of Altree™, a revolutionary wood-plastic...
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Somes Bar 8th Grader Reports on Standing Rock
Editor’s note: Emma Boykin is 13 years old, an eighth-grader at Junction School in Somes Bar and a member of the Karuk Tribe. I heard about the protests to stop pipeline construction at Standing Rock...
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Obama Blocks Dakota Pipeline
Federal officials from the Army Corps of Engineers announced Sunday that that they would not approve the permit to construct the last leg of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in its present route...
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