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u.s. news Dialuna 10 OctOber 2022

California tribes will manage, protect state coastal areas

SACRAMENTO, Calif. 109 federally-recognized around the nation have had
(AP) — Five California tribes, the second highest their rights to ancestral lands
tribes will reclaim their number in the country be- restored under the Land Back
right to manage coastal hind Alaska. But there are movement.
land significant to their also many tribes that aren’t
history under a first- federally recognized. About 60 attendees from
in-the-nation program nonprofit groups, tribal na-
backed with $3.6 million Multiple tribal leaders ref- tions and the Ocean Protec-
in state money. erenced Newsom’s public tion Council gathered in Sac-
apology in explaining part ramento to commemorate
The tribes will rely on their of why the network’s public the network’s public launch
traditional knowledge to pro- launch is happening now. In last week. Leaders thanked
tect more than 200 miles of recent years, U.S. officials experts, advocates, tribal
coastline in the state, as cli- have committed to collabo- leaders and public officials
mate change and human ac- cultural significance for vari- lion toward the pilot program rating with tribes on manag- who made the launch pos-
tivity have impacted the vast ous tribes, making the part- to support the network in ing public lands. sible.
area.
nership monumental. conducting research, reach-
ing out to tribes and creating Creating a network of tribes Valentin Lopez, chair of the
Some of the tribes’ work will plans for the future. to steward areas with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band,
include monitoring salmon The network plans to create backing of state government which is part of the network,
after the removal of a cen- agreements between tribes The council voted Thursday money and nonprofit sup- said climate change has forced
tury-old defunct dam in the and with state government to provide an additional $3.6 port breaks new ground in governments with a history
redwood forests in the Santa for managing these areas. million which will support the United States, said Kaiti- of exploiting Indigenous
Cruz mountains and testing the groups in their continued lin Gaffney of the nonprofit lands to acknowledge tribes’
for toxins in shellfish, while Rocha is also executive direc- efforts to monitor coastal and Resources Legacy Fund. deep-rooted knowledge of
also educating future genera- tor of Resighini Rancheria, a ocean resources, offer educa- protecting ecosystems.
tions on traditional practices. Some tribes in California and
tribe of Yurok people that is tional opportunities to tribal
part of the network. members, and pass along cul-
The partnership comes tural knowledge to younger
three years after Democratic She worked with other tribal generations.
Gov. Gavin Newsom apolo- leaders, members of non-
gized for the state’s previ- profit groups and the state’s Taking inspiration from simi-
ous violence and mistreat- Ocean Protection Council, lar partnerships in Australia
ment against Indigenous which coordinates activities and Canada, the groups said
peoples. Newsom said the of ocean-related state agen- they hope other networks
state should allow for more cies, to develop a pilot pro- bloom across the United
co-management of tribes’ an- gram for the network that States.
cestral lands. was years in the making.
Leaders plan to expand the
Megan Rocha, who’s on the In 2020, Ocean Protection network to include more
Tribal Marine Stewards Net- Council staff recommended tribes throughout the state,
work’s leadership council, the agency set aside $1 mil- Rocha said. California has
said these coastal areas hold

Serial ‘jogger rapist’ to be released from Oregon prison

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) convicted.
— An Oregon serial rapist
is set to be released from Gillmore has been classified
prison in mid-December as a sex offender at the lowest
after serving nearly 36 risk of reoffending. He will
years behind bars, almost have to register as a sex of-
all of his maximum sentence. fender for the rest of his life
due to his rape conviction,
Richard Gillmore, arrested but the classification means
in 1986 and called the “jog- the state and county aren’t
ger rapist” because he staked required to notify surround-
out victims as he ran by their ing residents that he’s living
homes, admitted to raping near them.
nine girls in the Portland area
in the 1970s and 80s but was His victims are angered that
only convicted in one case Gillmore isn’t considered a
because of the statute of limi- high-risk sex offender, which
tations. In 1987, a jury found would require notification to
him guilty of raping 13-year- the community wherever he
old Tiffany Edens, his last cial media that she received rectional Institution in Uma- Gillmore will remain under lives or moves.
known victim, in December a voicemail in August from tilla to the minimum-securi- supervision until 2034 and
1986. the state’s Victim Informa- ty Columbia River Correc- could be sent back to prison The Oregonian reported that
tion and Notification Service tional Institution in Portland if he violates his parole. Tudor said she didn’t under-
The Associated Press gener- telling her of his impending to help him prepare for his stand why he was being clas-
ally does not name people release. re-entry into the community. A judge in the Edens case sified as a low-level sex of-
who have been sexually as- He will be 63 at the time of sentenced Gillmore to at least fender.
saulted unless they come The Oregonian, citing prison his release in December. 30 years in prison with a 60-
forward publicly. Edens has officials, reported that Gill- year maximum. But a parole “He was designated as a dan-
spoken out about the assault more was transferred in Au- KOIN, which first reported board cut his sentence in half gerous offender at trial,” Tu-
and recently wrote on so- gust from Two Rivers Cor- his upcoming release, said in 1988, the year after he was dor said.