Weitchpec

Budding Scientists at Weitchpec Elementary

Watching dog wood blossoms come and go as spring progresses has Weitchpec Yurok Magnet School students feeling like blooming scientists. Read More →

Teens Organize Campaign Against Whippets

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 →

Propane Problem in Weitchpec

Natural gas has at least one Weitchpec resident gasping over a Pearson’s Grocery store policy... Read More →

Karuk Tribal Reunion

HAPPY CAMP—Five hundred people—tribal members and the broader public—are expected to attend the 15th annual Tribal Reunion Saturday, July 23, in the town’s River Park along the banks of the Klamath River. Read More →

Disappearing Bees

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 →

Sudden Oak Death Killing California Trees

    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 →

Klamath Dam Removal Studies Meeting in Orleans

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 →

TRT Editorial: The Good The Bad and the Ugly

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 →