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Yuroks Buy Blue Creek Watershed

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Blue Creek flows into the Klamath River.
Klamath Tribes

The bond between salmon and the Yurok Tribe goes back thousands of years. 

And the relationship reached a new level with the recent purchase of much of the Blue Creek watersheed.  Blue Creek is a major tributary of the Klamath River, entering downstream from the Trinity River.  Yurok General Counsel Amy Cordalis returns to talk about the Blue Creek project... and the tribe's recently-filed federal RICO lawsuit against opioid drug manufacturers. 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.
April Ehrlich is JPR content partner at Oregon Public Broadcasting. Prior to joining OPB, she was a regional reporter at Jefferson Public Radio where she won a National Edward R. Murrow Award.