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A group of Yurok youth organized research that culminated with a tribal ordinance that, if passed, would ban the sale and use of CO2 and nitrous oxide (N2O) cartridges on the Yurok Reservation. They hope the Hoopa Tribe will consider passing a similar law. Read More →

Garrett Brinton huddles over a hive of honeybees and examines the state of the monarchy on a sunny afternoon in Hoopa. The queen is alive and well and her servants are busy working Read More →

    By SCOTTIE LEE MEYERS, Two Rivers Tribune Tanoak trees in California are dying. Their lesions bleed thick sap. Their thirsty-green foliage wither, suffocated by infected veins that can no longer deliver water and nutrients. Over one million oak and tanoak trees have died in California since 1994. First they started dying in the [...] Read More →

ORLEANS—The crowd attending the update meeting on Klamath River dam removal studies recently was not large but they were all steeped in the subject and many held intense and differing opinions. It was no surprise, then, that the small number of state and federal scientists and agency types who hosted the meeting operated with the caution of a crew defusing a bomb. Read More →

The GOOD: After a tiresome debate over the First Amendment and government censorship, the Two Rivers Tribune is up and running. A meeting held Friday between Hoopa Valley Tribal Chairman, Leonard Masten and Interim Managing Editor, Allie Hostler resulted in an agreement to keep the Newspaper, without censorship post or prior to publication. A plan to relieve the Tribe of its financial obligations to the Two Rivers Tribune while maintaining and improving the TRT’s journalistic integrity will be presented to the Tribal Council early this week. In the meantime, we will continue to bring you the good the bad, and the ugly. Read More →

On March 28, the Hoopa Valley Tribal Council (HVTC) approved in the form of a resolution the creation of a tribal internet service provider–HoopaNet—to initiate service to tribal departments, governmental organizations, businesses and the general public beginning this year. Read More →

It’s that time of year when Smokey the Bear becomes vocal, insisting his presence upon you on highway signs and radio programming. It’s forest fire season. Read More →

In the world today it is all about healthy living, sustainability and "being green". If your food is not organically grown or raised then the chances are that it has something in it that is not good for you or the environment. Even with odds against commercial foodstuffs it’s a wonder why most people today aren’t more active in growing and raising their own food. There are hundreds of thousands of examples of urban, sub-urban and rural families living sustainably with a little dirt, some animals, and a desire to do what they can for themselves and their family. So the question still remains, why don’t more people "convert" to organic sustainability? Read More →