The Yurok Tribe’s 62nd Annual Klamath Salmon Festival is set for 8-15-26 in Klamath! Please review the tax-deductible sponsorship levels below and see where your business fits in. For more information, contact Maya Mace by Phone: 707-951-0698 or Email: mamace@yuroktribe.nsn.us.

The Yurok Tribe’s 62nd Annual Klamath Salmon Festival is set for 8-15-26 in Klamath! Please review the tax-deductible sponsorship levels below and see where your business fits in. For more information, contact Maya Mace by Phone: 707-951-0698 or Email: mamace@yuroktribe.nsn.us.

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Northern California condors suspected to be tending region’s first egg in more than a century A pair of condors, one of which was bred at the Oregon Zoo, are believed to be tending Northern California's first egg in more than 100 years.

Scientists believe the first condor egg in the Northern California wild in over a century may hatch soon. In this radio interview, NCCRP manager Chris West and Oregon Zoo's Marti Jenkins discuss a condor’s journey from captivity to breeding in the wild. tinyurl.com/4ua4sp76

The Yurok Tribe Environmental Department’s 25th Annual Klamath River Cleanup is happening on Saturday April 25th, 2026, in Wautec, Weitchpec, and Klamath! We hope to you there rain or shine!
Also, there will be a special screening of “Sequoias of the Sea” in Klamath directly after the event!

Northern California Condor Restoration Program condor B3 (studbook 1193) was recently hanging out with an adult bald eagle and some ravens. It was pretty amazing.

For the first time in a century, condors nest on Yurok land Chris West is a senior biologist with the Yurok Wildlife Department and manages the Northern California Condor Restoration Program. He's tracking a condor couple that is suspected of caring for a nest...

Chris West, Senior Biologist and North Coast Condor Restoration Program Manager, recently talked with Jefferson Public Radio about the discovery that free flying condors are likely incubating an egg.
Full story here:
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The Yurok Tribal Court’s Kee Cha'a-neyr Corporation recently created a community giving pathway that would allow supporters to donate directly, while also highlighting the partnership and community impact on Yurok Telecommunication’s Corporation’s website. For more information, keechaaneyr.org

This condor couple may be tending to first egg in Northern California in a century Two condors in far northwestern California appear to be caring for a recently laid egg, a historic moment in an effort to bring the massive raptors back to the Yurok Tribe's historic homeland.

“This is a big step, and a necessary step, to seeing (condor) recovery on the North Coast.” - Yurok Wildlife Department Director Tiana Williams-Claussen
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COMING SOON! The Weitchpec Community Barter Party is open to all community members. Cultural gatherers and crafts people can set up vendor booths to trade. Traditional foods fibers or medicine to trade are encouraged. The Barter Party will have a free meal, music, and prizes. Contact info below.

Don't miss the Decolonizing Sustainability Speaker Series featuring Keith Parker, February 12th from 5-6:30pm! The Speaker Series will be held in the Native American forum (BSS 162) at Cal Poly Humboldt with food to follow. You may also join via Zoom with the QR code below.

Please join us May 5th for the Yurok MMIP Awareness Day & Walk. This event will be held at the Adorni Center in Eureka from 12:30-4:30pm. This will be a powerful day of remembrance for missing and murdered Indigenous people with prayer, walk, speakers and dinner.
To' Kee Skuy' Soo Ney-Wo-Chek'.

4th annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Summit starts Tuesday in Wheatland Tribes from across California will call attention to cases of missing and murdered indigenous people (MMIP) and discuss what’s being done to combat the issue at a two-day summit starting on Tuesday in...

"Through intertribal cooperation and collaboration with state partners, we are working on policy and legislative solutions designed to prevent future MMIP cases and bring justice to countless families affected by this crisis." - Yurok Chairman Joseph L. James www.kcra.com/article/miss...

Tribal council summit tackles missing and murdered Indigenous people crisis, seeks solutions California's Tribal Policy Summit unites lawmakers and tribal leaders to tackle the ongoing missing and murdered Indigenous people crisis, highlighting progress.

More than 1,000 people attended the 4th Annual MMIP Summit in Sacramento this week.

“We have grown since our first annual summit and provided solutions,” said Joseph L. James, the Chairman of the Yurok Tribe. “We're all in this together.”

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Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab & TEK Institute: Our Food Relatives Salmon YouTube video by hsunas

This video produced by the Food Sovereignty Lab at Cal Poly Humboldt highlights the importance of the Klamath River—and salmon in particular—as a food source for the Yurok and other native people, and how the Tribe has always had a duty to protect the river’s health in return.

Science on Tap: Lehlkenoh (We Clear Away the Land), What it takes to restore a prairie. Preston Taylor, Ungulate Specialist, Yurok Tribe Wildlife Department. The Yurok Tribe's Restoration of Stevens Prairie. Friday, January 30th. Paskenta Mad River Brewery. Talk starts at 6 pm.

Learn all about Stevens Prairie restoration from Yurok Wildlife Ungulate Specialist Preston Taylor at Science on Tap, Friday, Jan. 30 at Paskenta Mad River Brewery in Blue Lake.

Lehlkenoh (We Clear Away the Land) will begin at 6pm.

Learn more about the project: tinyurl.com/yz4y9hv3

Reminder: The Yurok Tribe's 4th Annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) Tribal Policy Summit is happening on February 3rd and 4th at the Hardrock Hotel and Casino at Fire Mountain in Sacramento. To attend the free summit, please register @ tinyurl.com/3krazhxc

5 years of teamwork revives North Coast salmon haven | Save the Redwoods League A five-year restoration turned Prairie Creek at ‘O Rew into a vital salmon nursery and cultural gateway on California’s North Coast.

“To see this property come full circle and make this incredible transformation has been amazing.” - Yurok Fisheries Department Director Barry McCovey, Save the Redwoods League

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Yurok Revegetation Project Restores Northern California Salmon Stronghold on Klamath Tributary Yurok Tribe welcomes back salmon, native plants, and Indigenous sovereignty to a former lumber mill site in Northern California.

“We talk about what people now are doing as they try to restore the landscape, and what they’re actually trying to restore it back to is a managed landscape." - Rosie Clayburn, Yurok Tribal Heritage Preservation Officer www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

Yurok Tribal Council Member Phillip Williams shares insights into the profound, yet often overlooked long-term benefits that Klamath dam removal & ongoing river restoration efforts promise for the Yurok people. This work will also create positive change for all who love salmon & healthy rivers.

Yurok Tribe, Round Valley Indians Sign Treaty of Friendship in Advance of Potential Eel River Dam Removal

"We are honored to contribute the extensive knowledge and experience we have gained through Klamath River dam removal with our relatives from the Round Valley Indian Tribes." - Yurok Tribe Chairman Joseph L. James lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/nov/12/...

Yurok Fisheries Department Director Barry McCovey talks about the Klamath River’s amazing progress 1 year after the world’s largest dam removal project. This fall, for the first time more than a century, chinook salmon made it to all the major tributaries that were previously blocked

The tsunami advisories for Del Norte County and the rest of the West Coast have been lifted. Be prepared for future earthquakes and tsunamis rctwg.humboldt.edu

Tsunami advisory remains in effect for Del Norte County. Stay away from beaches and tidal influence waters. Wave fluctuations ongoing.
Updates: tsunami.gov.
Tsunami hazard maps: rctwg.humboldt.edu/tsunami-hazard-maps

Tsunami warning for Del Norte County. Please get to high ground immediately and stay away from beaches, and tidal influence waters. The first waves are expected to reach land about 11:50 p.m.

Updates: tsunami.gov.
Tsunami hazard maps: rctwg.humboldt.edu/tsunami-hazard-maps

A tsunami watch has been issued for the West Coast to the U.S.-Mexico border. The tsunami is expected to reach the North Coast of California around midnight.
Updates: tsunami.gov.
Tsunami hazard maps: rctwg.humboldt.edu/tsunami-hazard-maps

This week, there were hundreds if not thousands of brown pelicans, cormorants and osprey feeding on bait fish in the Klamath River estuary and plume. This is another sign the river is healing in response to dam removal.

Only one week until the Yurok Arts and Crafts Fair! Come out and support tribal artisans selling jewelry, blankets, beadwork, woodwork, jams, jellies and much more!

The Fair will take place Tuesday, July 1, 10am-3pm at the Del Norte County Fair.

Some vendor spaces available—application attached.

Parcel 3 times the size of Manhattan returned to Northern Calif. tribe The area is a culturally sacred and ecologically critical watershed.

“Blue Creek is a very culturally significant place to the Yurok Tribe. So getting this land back under ownership and control of the tribe is extremely important in that respect.” - Yurok Fisheries Department Director Barry McCovey/@sfgate.com
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Happy Friday! Here are some recent pictures of the undammed segment of the Klamath River. To help the river rebound, the Yurok Tribe, under contract with RES, planted several tons of native plant seeds and tens of thousands of native trees along the newly reborn river reach.