The tribe says they will initiate restoration projects on the 17,000 acres taken from them during the gold rush.

Completion of the land-back conservation deal along the lower Klamath River is being called the largest in California history.

Over 47,000 acres of land along Northern California's Klamath River was recently returned to the Yurok tribe in the state's largest land back deal to date. The 73 square miles of forested land is over three times the size of Manhattan,