Inter-tribal crew puts final touches on project in Fall River, CA

Here are some photos from the wrap up of the Fall River Trail Improvement and Ecocultural Enhancement Project in Shasta County, California. This week, seven inter-tribal crew members employed by Lomakatsi through the Inter-Tribal Ecosystem Partnership worked to improve recreation trails and install culturally beneficial plants adjacent to Fall River Lake—on the ancestral lands of the Ajumawi Band of the Ajumawi-Atsuge Nation (Pit River Tribe). The crew also finished constructing boxes planted with wild rose and a variety of wildflowers, set on decommissioned unauthorized motor vehicle routes that threatened erosion and an influx of invasive species. A wood-chipped two-mile trail now connects near the Fall River Elementary School to Mackey Cove on the east side of the lake, with a matchless view of Burney Mountain.