Wednesday April 23, 2025
Times Standard —
This week, the efforts of the Yurok Tribe to restore the Klamath River watershed and the wildlife in and around that watershed will be featured on national broadcast television.
At 10 p.m. on Wednesday, in an episode titled “River Restoration,” PBS’s “Changing Planet” will explore the Yurok Tribe’s contributions to post-Klamath dam removal restoration efforts, as well as showcase the tribe’s role in the recovery of the California condor (or prey-go-neesh in the Yurok language).
“The Klamath Dam removal and the Yurok Tribe’s California condor recovery programs both speak to the kind of scale that the Yurok Tribe and other tribes in the area are talking about when we talk about ecosystem restoration,” Wildlife Department Director Tiana Williams-Claussen told the Times-Standard in a phone interview.
“We’re not talking about individual plots of land. We’re not talking about individual degraded areas — but the entire system,” Williams-Claussen said. “And the water is, of course, the lifeblood and the connecting connecting point between all aspects of it.”