California Funds Return of Nearly 40,000 Acres to Quartz Valley Tribe
California has approved financing that will allow the Quartz Valley Indian Reservation to reclaim nearly 40,000 acres of ancestral land in the Klamath River Basin—almost 200 times the size of the Tribe’s present reservation. The State Water Resources Control Board announced the decision July 24 after adopting a resolution authorizing a $25 million, zero-interest loan…