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The Tule River Indian Tribe plans to acquire 14,675 acres of blue oak woodlands from the Hershey Ranch in Tulare County, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills. A $2.4 million grant from the California Wildlife Conservation Board, in partnership with the California Natural Resources Agency and The Conservation Fund, will help fund the purchase. The property was once home to the Yokut and Tubatulabal peoples, ancestors of the modern-day Tule River Tribe. It will provide habitat for reintroduced elk and beaver, and serve as a summer range for a wolfpack found near the tribe’s reservation in 2023. Conservation work is expected to restore the Deer Creek watershed, one of California’s last undammed waterways.
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