Photo by: Andy Best
The Wyss Foundation contributed $5 million towards the protection of the Blue Creek Salmon Sanctuary, part of a project that returned 47,000 acres of ancestral homeland to the Yurok Tribe of California’s Klamath Basin. With acquisition of the land completed, Western Rivers Conservancy is now transitioning this spiritually significant and ecologically critical landscape to the Yurok and in the process, transitioning the land from commercial timber harvest to management by the Yurok as a salmon sanctuary (approximately 15,000 acres) and sustainable working forest (approximately 32,000 acres). Learn More