Original caretakers: Indigenous groups team up with conservationists to protect swaths of US

Environmental organizations and tribes have been coming together to protect the natural world, and a key part of this teamwork has been land transfers

In 2020, an environmental non-profit returned over a dozen acres in Oregon to the Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes.

Two months later, a conservation group worked with the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County to return more than 1,000 acres in California to the tribal group.