Yurok Reservation

In the first of a special two-part series, Host Dave Schlom is joined by Michael Kauffmann, co-editor and publisher of The Klamath Mountains: A Natural History.

Temperatures are back in the upper 90s this week. Programs offered by the Community Action Agency of Butte County can help make homes more energy efficient and reduce energy costs. Also, Plumas County supervisors voted to fund two public electric vehicle charging stations at their last meeting, and fares will be waived for bus riders in Butte County next Wednesday.

Some 125 acres of forest land in California's Redwood National and State Parks will return to the Yurok tribe in a first-of-its-kind arrangement.

Proposition 1 passed narrowly in California. That’s left many mental health programs worried about having their funding reallocated toward housing for those with severe mental illness. Also, the way college students apply for free federal aid has been overhauled and the changes have caused issues for some Chico State students, and the city of Chico announced it’s planning several sweeps of local homeless encampments.

Proposition 1 — a proposal from Gov. Gavin Newsom to build housing and mental health treatment beds for Californians experiencing homelessness — was narrowly approved by California voters. Also, the Karuk Tribe published a sequel to its 2021 “Good Fire” report on legal and policy barriers to conducting prescribed and cultural burns, and the Yurok Tribe will be the first Native people to manage tribal land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed this week.

Applications are now open for prescribed fire training in Plumas County. A train derailed Sunday, sending coal into the Feather River and today is the last day of the annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Summit and Day of Action.

In the first of a special two-part series, Host Dave Schlom is joined by Michael Kauffmann, co-editor and publisher of The Klamath Mountains: A Natural History.

The California condor is the largest bird in North America and one of the most threatened, today we look at one challenge conservationists confront as they work to restore these birds to their native range. Also, students from several Butte County high school and college campuses protested the Israel-Hamas conflict by walking out of classes Thursday, and the National Weather Service says the first winter storm of the season is expected starting Tuesday.

The Yurok Tribe hosted the first ever state summit tackling unsolved cases of missing or murdered Indigenous people Tuesday in Arcata. Also, a recently formed burlesque and drag group in Chico aims to enliven downtown while providing an inclusive space, and experts say flu season could be severe.

The Yurok Tribe’s fisheries will receive federal disaster funding for the abysmally small fish harvests that closed commercial fisheries every year since 2017. Also, while COVID-19 continues to kill Californians, the demographics are shifting. And a showing of “Dracula” at Theatre on the Ridge finished its run to a sold-out show over the weekend.