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03/07/2026

03/02/2026

Wonderful🙏

History shifted along the Klamath River when the Yurok Tribe reclaimed more than 47,000 acres of ancestral land, the largest land-back agreement ever completed in California.

This land was never lost by accident.

During the Gold Rush and the decades that followed, the Yurok people were violently displaced from nearly 90 percent of their territory. Forests were logged. Rivers were dammed. Sacred places were fenced off. What remained was fragmentation, both ecological and cultural.

The land returned in May 2025 includes towering old-growth forests, cold-water tributaries, and culturally sacred sites that have sustained Yurok life since time immemorial. These forests and streams are not just symbolic. They are vital habitat for salmon, steelhead, and endangered wildlife, species that depend on clean, cold water and intact ecosystems.

For the Yurok Tribe, land-back is not about ownership in the colonial sense. It is about responsibility.

Yurok stewardship emphasizes balance, seasonal knowledge, and long-term care. Cultural burning, forest restoration, and river protection are not new ideas here, they are ancient ones, practiced continuously long before the state of California existed. Returning land to Indigenous care restores more than borders. It restores relationships.

Environmental scientists increasingly recognize what Indigenous communities have always known, ecosystems thrive when managed with patience rather than extraction. Along the Klamath, that knowledge is already being put to work, reconnecting forests to rivers and rivers to life.

This return does not erase the past.

But it changes the future.

Land-back is justice.

Land-back is restoration.

Land-back is listening.

Follow Know Your Planet for real moments where history bends toward repair, guided by those who have always known how to care for the land.

02/17/2026

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02/14/2026

With Sanger Live – I'm on a streak! I've been a top fan for 10 months in a row. 🎉

01/19/2026

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01/14/2026

With Native American Culture – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

01/12/2026

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01/03/2026

Nice way to start the year 2026! Excellent Read🙏

You are only one year of discipline, self-respect, and focused action away from a life that finally reflects your true worth.

12/21/2025

I wish to announce that I have decided to support DAV Chapter One Phoenix by volunteering to joining the Benefits Protection Team, (BPT) representing 1st Congressional District (AZ-01). I take the oath next month. I've severed the chapter for over eight year in various capacities, as there Commander and Chaplain. Its an honor to represent (AZ 01).

12/04/2025

With Billy Cox Motivation – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

12/03/2025

Pure energy manifestation🙏❤️