"The historical wrongs committed by the state against the Native people of this land echo through the natural worlds of California - ecosystems that lost their first and best stewards, "Today marks a critical step in deepening the relationship between the state and the Tule River Indian Tribe, and works towards restoring the deep relationship between the Tribe and their ancestral lands.""
"Now these new 17,000 acres are connecting all of that, so all of the species that are relying on the landscape now have a full corridor that is going to be protected in perpetuity,"
Seventeen thousand thirty acres of former ranchland in the Sierra Nevada foothills were returned to the Tule River Indian Tribe, reconnecting the tribe's reservation with adjacent U.S. Forest Service lands, including Giant Sequoia National Monument. The transfer creates a protected corridor for wildlife, enabling species such as Tule elk to roam between conserved areas and restoring indigenous stewardship of ancestral land. Funding came from the California Natural Resources Agency's Tribal Nature-Based Solutions program, which supports similar returns elsewhere in the state. The acreage represents the largest land return of its kind in the Central Valley and follows prior tribal land restorations.
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