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Yurok tribe buys coastal forest in Humboldt County

The Columbian
Published: April 14, 2011, 12:00am

KLAMATH, Calif. (AP) — A Native American tribe is acquiring more than 34 square miles of ancestral land on Northern California’s Redwood Coast.

The Yurok Tribe says it completed the purchase Thursday of the Humboldt County property from the Green Diamond Resource Company.

Tribal Chairman Thomas O’Rourke says the acquisition marks the long-sought return of the tribe’s ancestral land and more than doubles its territory on the lower Klamath River.

O’Rourke says tribe plans to create a salmon sanctuary and use tribal management practices to protect wildlife habitat and restore water quality.

The tribe bought the land with help from the nonprofit Western Rivers Conservancy and $18.75 million from a state clean water fund.

The property is home to Chinook salmon, coho salmon, rainbow trout and several imperiled bird species.

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