"They haven’t really been seen in this area for 100 years," says Tiana Williams, a biologist and Yurok tribal member, "but they figure heavily in our stories and feature heavily in our world renewal ceremonies."
This spring the Yurok tribe, whose lands center around the Klamath river, a handful of government agencies, and the Central Coast nonprofit, the Ventana Wildlife Society signed an agreement to cooperatively work toward returning condors to the North Coast.