TERA in the News
Checkout these stories about TERA’s work
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Reviving a famously polluted California lake
Clear Lake, the state’s largest freshwater body of water, is fouled each year by algal blooms, one of many assaults endured by the battered ecosystem. Can a multipronged plan help it recover?
By: Tien Nguyen
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"Bringing back those relationships with the land”: TERA returns cultural burning to Lake County
On a cold Thursday morning toward the end of October, some 70 people from Robinson Rancheria of Pomo Indians, Cal Fire, Lake County Cal-TREX, the United States Forest Service, and the Tribal Eco-Restoration Alliance (TERA) gathered to kick off a cultural burn on Robinson Rancheria lands. As TERA Crew Lead Stoney Timmons explained, part of the goal for that day’s prescribed fire was to tend to the slope’s legacy oak trees and cut down on the weevil population in acorns, a traditional source of tribal subsistence.
By Kate Fishman
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Lake County-based Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance harvests Christmas trees for Congress
In early November, a unique crew of U.S. Forest Service-certified sawyers from the Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance, or TERA, helped harvest more than 20 indoor-sized Christmas trees to decorate federal offices throughout the U.S. Capitol, as part of the Forest Service’s U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree initiative.