Historic partnership penned to help save endangered salmon
Over the past year we’ve been showing you California’s effort to save the winter run chinook salmon – a fish that has almost been lost to dammed rivers and warming waters. It’s part of a growing partnership between state and federal wildlife agencies – and a small California tribe that’s been fighting to save those fish for years, and bring them back home. On Monday, a historic pact was signed to expand on those efforts … For Sisk and the Winnemem Tribe this day would have seemed improbable, or impossible, just a few years ago. A tiny California tribe without federal recognition, signing a formal agreement with state and federal partners. When the moment arrived to actually sign the documents, the tribe’s spiritual leader couldn’t help but acknowledge generations of mistrust.
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