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[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.
[SPEAKER_01]: It more than doubles the Europe Tribes territory, transferring approximately forty-seven thousand acres to tribal stewardship.
[SPEAKER_01]: According to reports, these lands, one-zone by timber companies, include critical watersheds like blue creek and forest ecosystems, prime for restoration.
[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.
[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.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is incredible, said Barry McCubbie Jr., director of the Uron Travel Fisheries Department.
[SPEAKER_01]: snorkeling blueprint.
[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.
[SPEAKER_01]: Studies have reportedly found the most biodiverse, healthiest and resilient forests are on protected native lands where indigenous people remain stewards.
[SPEAKER_01]: Currently, there is a mounting recognition that the traditional knowledge of indigenous people is critical to addressing climate change, according to reports.
[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.
[SPEAKER_01]: The tribes' plans also include helping restore salmon and wildlife.
[SPEAKER_01]: The process will also help generate jobs for more than five thousand members of the tribe.
[SPEAKER_01]: The climate was once the west coasts third largest salmon producing river in the life force of indigenous people.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, the state salmon stock has plummeted drastically due to dams and diversions.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, the blue creek watershed, vital for salmon and steelhead spawning, will serve as a salmon sanctuary.
[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.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tried members know it is going to take decades of work for these lands and waterways to heal.
[SPEAKER_01]: And maybe all that's not going to be done in my lifetime.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's fine because I'm not doing this for myself, come in and recover.
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