WEBVTT 00:01.140 --> 00:04.222 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a news.com newsflash. 00:28.289 --> 00:38.616 [SPEAKER_01]: The completion of the landback conservation wheel along the lower climate river, a partnership with Western Rivers Conservancy and other environmental groups, is being called the largest in California history. 00:38.937 --> 00:44.881 [SPEAKER_01]: It more than doubles the Europe Tribes territory, transferring approximately forty-seven thousand acres to tribal stewardship. 00:45.742 --> 00:53.847 [SPEAKER_01]: According to reports, these lands, one-zone by timber companies, include critical watersheds like blue creek and forest ecosystems, prime for restoration. 00:54.728 --> 01:03.053 [SPEAKER_01]: This effort also aligns with the global landback movement, which trails indigenous lead land return spanning four thousand seven hundred square miles across fifteen states. 01:03.913 --> 01:09.516 [SPEAKER_01]: To go from what I was a kid in twenty years ago, even, from being afraid to go out there to having it be back in tribal hands. 01:10.417 --> 01:15.140 [SPEAKER_01]: Is incredible, said Barry McCubbie Jr., director of the Uron Travel Fisheries Department. 01:16.035 --> 01:16.936 [SPEAKER_01]: snorkeling blueprint. 01:17.877 --> 01:24.942 [SPEAKER_01]: I felt the significance of that place to myself and to our people, and I knew then that we had to do whatever we could to try and get that back, the act. 01:25.523 --> 01:32.848 [SPEAKER_01]: Studies have reportedly found the most biodiverse, healthiest and resilient forests are on protected native lands where indigenous people remain stewards. 01:33.729 --> 01:40.796 [SPEAKER_01]: Currently, there is a mounting recognition that the traditional knowledge of indigenous people is critical to addressing climate change, according to reports. 01:41.616 --> 01:51.205 [SPEAKER_01]: The Europe tribe plans to reintroduce traditional ecological practices such as prescribed burns, ferry restoration, reforestation and removal of invasive species in overturned lands. 01:52.106 --> 01:55.229 [SPEAKER_01]: The tribes' plans also include helping restore salmon and wildlife. 01:56.140 --> 02:00.264 [SPEAKER_01]: The process will also help generate jobs for more than five thousand members of the tribe. 02:01.085 --> 02:06.371 [SPEAKER_01]: The climate was once the west coasts third largest salmon producing river in the life force of indigenous people. 02:07.171 --> 02:11.316 [SPEAKER_01]: However, the state salmon stock has plummeted drastically due to dams and diversions. 02:12.237 --> 02:17.802 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, the blue creek watershed, vital for salmon and steelhead spawning, will serve as a salmon sanctuary. 02:18.716 --> 02:29.320 [SPEAKER_01]: This has been made possible by the removal of the claim of dams, the largest dam removal project in the United States, reopening forty-five miles of river and allowing Chinook salmon to return to historic habitats. 02:30.180 --> 02:34.562 [SPEAKER_01]: Tried members know it is going to take decades of work for these lands and waterways to heal. 02:34.842 --> 02:37.163 [SPEAKER_01]: And maybe all that's not going to be done in my lifetime. 02:38.064 --> 02:41.585 [SPEAKER_01]: But that's fine because I'm not doing this for myself, come in and recover. 02:53.170 --> 02:54.371 [SPEAKER_00]: Knowledge. 02:54.731 --> 02:55.452 [SPEAKER_00]: Unfilter. 02:55.612 --> 02:56.272 [SPEAKER_00]: Unfilter.