The Tule River Indian Tribe and state wildlife crews reintroduced 9 beavers to their natural habitat in the Sierras.
Beavers are precious to the Tule River Indian Tribe. They are woven into the California tribe's stories and appear in ancient pictographs painted by ancestors on the walls of a rock shelter in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. But when nine of the furry rodents recently slid out of crates and slipped into waterways on the Tule River Reservation, they returned to a habitat where they hadn't been seen in nearly a century.
“We’ve been through numerous droughts over the years — we were wondering how we can conserve, save water, get water here on our lands,” said Kenneth McDarment, a Tule River Tribe member and former tribal councilman, in a CDFW statement. “The answer was in our pictographs.” California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot said the beaver program was the result of an unprecedented effort by the state to not only steward the environment but also support tribal sovereignty.
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