Blue Forest, in partnership with the Colfax–Todds Valley Consolidated Tribe, the Koy’o Land Conservancy and the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, announces the launch of the Colfax I forest resilience bond: the first FRB led by a tribal nation. … The Colfax project takes place within the ancestral homelands of the Miwok, Maidu and Nisenan peoples — territory that includes the headwaters of the Sacramento River, most of the American River watershed and parts of the Bear and Cosumnes rivers. Restoration treatments span tribal trust lands, private holdings and Bureau of Land Management lands across Placer and El Dorado counties. 

Other tribal water and conservation news:

• The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah): The Ute Tribe will allow outsiders to get fishing permits again — but hunting remains off-limits. Here’s why.​
• Maven’s Notebook: Blog: How Karuk ceremonial leader Ron Reed used Western science to take down the Klamath dams