In the thick of scrub-brushing between the long ranches of the San Joaquin Valley and the mighty peaks and Steooia forests of the Sierra Nevada, State leaders from the Tule Riverness Tribe gathered Wednesday to register 17,000 acres of Tule River Land Tribe.
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Former cattle ranches, known as “herhey ranch” and others say “cardoon farm,” include grass forests, oak forests and black evergreen forests. They live just south of the acre-acre tule River Rivers Books and use the Sequooia National Monument. They were purchased in 2024 and 2025 with the support of private donors, a savings fund, and the California Environmental Protection Agency, which uses State Bond funds to restore ancestral lands to tribes.
Trailers carrying Tule Elk arrive at the Tule River Endian Reservation in Tulare County during the joint release of Elk from the reservation on October 22, 2025.
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The program provided more than $107 million to support the return of tens of thousands of acres of land to California tribes, including 10,000 acres In the Hoopa Valley Tribe to find the heads of Pine Creek, male of the Klamath River. The initiative is part of the state’s plan to conserve 30% of the water and coastal waters by 2030 and is also part of what the governor’s office calls “the Governor’s first effort to call on California’s indigenous peoples.”
The discovery of the Tule River restores some of the Tribe’s sacred sacred land, and will enable energy conservation projects, including protecting the sea deer, protecting the habitat in California and rehabilitating the Tule Elk. Nation last year He worked with state officials to reintroduce beavers to the South Fork of the Tule River.
“This return of the land shows the idea of the renewal of the land of the nations, which increases the access to food that is important for food and medicine,” said Lester R. Nieto Jr. “Shine” council statement. Nieto added that this country is “this country in the Youwlumne Hills as a place to gather, cool, and just be” and that it is part of the nation’s long history and confirms its sovereignty. “
Tule Elk was removed from the Tule River Indian Reservation in Tulare County on Oct. 22, 2025.
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In his statement, NewsOm said that “historical mistakes made by the state to the indigenous people of this country are the natural lands of California that have lost their first and foremost managers.” He added that the return of the land celebrated on Wednesday “marks a critical step in deepening the relationship between the state and the Tule Riverre Indian Tribe.”
Federal officials said the purchase includes $7.75 million from the nation’s state-based insect program, $2.4 million from the Wildlife Conservation Board and a “significant amount” from private philanthropy. The full purchase price was not immediately available.
