Roughly 73 square miles of ancestral homelands once belonging to California's Yurok Tribe have been returned to them. The land-back conservation project along the Klamath River, a partnership with the Western Rivers Conservancy, is being called the largest in state history and more than doubles the tribe's land holdings. The lands include important river tributaries, salmon habitat and areas of cultural and spiritual significance that the tribe will now manage and protect. The deal joins a growing Land Back movement of returning lands to Indigenous people, as well as mounting acceptance that their traditional ecological knowledge is critical to addressing climate change.