California tribes will manage, protect state coastal areas

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Five California tribes will reclaim their right to manage coastal land significant to their history under a first-in-the-nation program backed with $3.6 million in state money.

The tribes will rely on their traditional knowledge to protect more than 200 miles of coastline in the state, as climate change and human activity have impacted the vast area.

Some of the tribes' work will include monitoring salmon after the removal of a century-old defunct dam in the redwood forests in the Santa Cruz mountains and testing for toxins in shellfish, while also educating future generations on traditional practices.

The partnership comes three years after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom apologized for the state’s previous violence and mistreatment against Indigenous peoples. Newsom said the state should allow for more co-management of tribes' ancestral lands.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-tribes-manage-protect-state-125419828.html

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1. Wow

Also, let them take more control over the TRPA. They have made a mess of our forests They are the reason we have so many fires, instead of cleaning our forests they have grown them to a disaster with overgrowth, and that killed our trees and brought in the beetle

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2. Kickin' with Gusto!

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3. fantastic!

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4. Excellent

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5. Here's story about the dam that was removed in the Santa Cruz Mountains:

“For more than a century Mill Creek dam impeded Coho salmon from reaching desperately needed spawning habitat,” said Sara Barth, Sempervirens Fund’s executive director. “Removing the dam has been a missing piece in restoring creek flow and improving sediment conditions critical for spawning. A restored creek is also essential to the health and resilience of the surrounding redwoods and other nearby and downstream habitats at San Vicente.”

The Mill Creek section of the San Vicente watershed is prized for its heavy summer flow of cold water—even in current drought conditions—largely due to a substantial limestone karst system underground. Highly durable granite cobble, trapped behind the dam for a century, can now make its way downstream and into the watershed system, improving miles of potential salmonid spawning habitat, especially for endangered Coho salmon, at the southern end of their range.

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https://sempervirens.org/news/news-mill-creek-dam-removed-in-santa-cruz-mountains/

The dam was entirely filled with sediment.

As an aside, the comments on yahoo news are often depressing...