The Santa Barbara Independent

Land Trust for Santa Barbara County Secures 587 Acres in the Solomon Hills Through New Conservation Easement at Rancho Dos Alamos

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KQED

4 Million Acres of California's Public Lands Are Road-Free. Trump Wants to Change That

A 2025 proposal from President Donald Trump’s administration would open up nearly 4 million acres of land in California to logging and road construction — by rescinding the so-called “Roadless Rule” ...
KTVU

Largest land back deal in California history: 47,000 acres returned to Yurok Tribe

The Yurok Tribe today announced it taken control of roughly 73 square miles of forest along the Klamath River. The land doubles the tribe's land holdings. The return was part of a larger, nationwide ...

Native American tribe reclaims 900 acres near Yosemite National Park in California

The South Sierra Miwuk Nation has reattained nearly 900 acres bordering Yosemite National Park — 175 years after the tribe ...

10,000 acres north of Lake Tahoe to be returned to California tribe in historic land deal

A historic deal will return over 10,000 acres of former ranch land in the northern Sierra Nevada to the Washoe Tribe of ...
USA Today

California’s Alien Land Law denied Japanese immigrants land and fueled racist exclusion

California's 1913 Alien Land Law barred Japanese immigrants, deemed "aliens ineligible for citizenship," from owning land. The law was driven by racial animosity and economic fears, despite Japanese ...