Stories of LA’s Zorthian Ranch, ‘A Portal to a Different Way of Life,’ Damaged in the Eaton Fire
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"content": "\u003cp>“It woke you up in a way where you felt your humanity and you felt the humanity of the people around you. You understood what it felt like to really love people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can’t stop thinking about this line from my friend Tara Zorthian. I was interviewing her about her former home, the Zorthian Ranch, which burned down in\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033286/in-fire-scarred-altadena-these-residents-refused-to-leave\"> the Eaton Canyon fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was searching to capture the meaning of a place that is impossible to define.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a ranch. An artist community. A homestead. A portal to a different way of life. But there’s something else going on there. A sense of magic, hidden in the mountains, that reveals itself to those who leave behind the trappings of modern urban life and surrender to the silliest, most whimsical, most open version of themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have witnessed this place transform people. It even happened to me, a journalist from New Jersey with a rather serious disposition. I only lived at the Ranch for a matter of months, but have been a visitor for much longer. And during that time, I unlocked a new version of myself that I didn’t know existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1585\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-2048x1268.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-1920x1189.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) Writer Sam Anderson outside a burned out bus at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. (Right) One of the burned vehicles on the ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first time I came to the Ranch was in 2019 for a volunteer workday. As my tiny Volkswagen rattled across the precarious bridge and up the windy dirt road, I felt nervous with anticipation. What is this place? How does it possibly exist among the dense urban sprawl of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles-county\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I arrived at the top of the road to find a rambling property filled with strange buildings and objects. Art was everywhere. It was like nothing I had ever seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I joined a group of twenty or so people engaged in some form of toiling. I can’t remember what we did that day – probably pulled weeds or tossed some rocks into a pile or something similar. It was a sweltering summer day and by the afternoon everyone was covered in dirt and sweat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s emblazoned in my memory forever is what happened after the work was done. Everyone stripped completely naked and jumped in the pool. Music turned on. Drinks appeared. A raucous party began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pool was perched on top of a mountain with a panoramic view of Los Angeles. As the sun began to set over the hills, brilliant shades of orange and pink blazed across the sky and I had an indescribable feeling that I tapped into something special. What was this community I had encountered, filled with such creative, brilliant people?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033286 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00010-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I came back as frequently as I could, driven by some deep impulse that what I experienced there was magic. I couldn’t quite define the feeling, but I knew I wanted more of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, I got to know the place and its people in a more intimate way. Words are a poor substitute for what I experienced there, but it involved strange art performances, puppet shows,\u003ca href=\"https://slamgranderson.substack.com/p/zorthian-ranch-pizza-party\"> pizza parties\u003c/a> and surrealist dinners, costumes and music of all types, deep conversations, sleepovers with friends, staying up all night until the sunrise and a profound sense of love and belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Tara said, it woke you up. You felt your humanity. You understood what it meant to really love people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My experience is but a small fraction of what the Zorthian Ranch really was — and is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ranch has been around for nearly a century. It was founded by Jirayr Zorthian, a refugee from the Armenian genocide, who over the years developed a unique space that was both homestead and social scene. It became a magnet for bohemian artists in the ’50s and ’60s. It hosted countless parties, shows and performances, and over the years what happened to me — the discovery of magic within myself — happened to hundreds, if not thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034239\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tara Zorthian, a granddaughter of founder Jirayr Zorthian, at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. She lived on the ranch for eight years before moving away two years ago. The Eaton fire destroyed several structures as well as vegetation on the Ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cliche is that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone. But I think we did know. All of us who lived, visited and participated in the Ranch came away with a sense of how special it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the course of producing this non-narrated radio piece, I set out to capture that sense of specialness. And I knew that would be a challenge from the outset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, the 20 people who used to live here are now displaced. The community has scattered. Where previously I could simply show up and find several people to talk to, now I had to go about tracking them down to the various friend’s houses (and couches) where they were staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another challenge was trying to wrap my arms around such a sprawling subject. I understood that ultimately, any attempt to tell the entire story of the Zorthian Ranch in a single piece would be doomed to failure. I myself had actually tried — and failed — before. Along with a colleague of mine, I set out to uncover the fate of The Phantasmagoria of Military Intelligence Training, which is the most enduring mystery of the Zorthian Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story goes that Jirayr Zorthian created his greatest artwork of all time — a true masterpiece — in the form of a 157-foot mural that was first installed at the Pentagon, then possibly shuffled around other military locations, before it was lost forever.[aside postID=news_12029129 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/0A4A3428-1020x680.jpg']The piece depicted the training and recruitment process of the military in not uncritical terms (could that be a motivation behind its disappearance?) and while the original has never been found, there is at least\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOFV1Mp1Nc4\"> a video\u003c/a> documenting what it looked like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suffice it to say my documentary about this missing art piece didn’t pan out. But the particular rabbit hole it sent me down — playfully referred to as “the Zortex” by those who live here — only reinforced my enduring fascination with the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several talented individuals have contributed to telling the story of the Zorthian Ranch, and while no one’s produced a truly definitive documentary about the place, there are several great attempts currently available to view (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ-GOuEZBUk\">such as this one, directed by Elisabeth de LeDoulx)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In typical Zorthian fashion, it becomes not about the efforts of one individual, but rather a collective effort spanning decades to document our own community, and articulate why it matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my own small way, I hope to contribute to those efforts. But where most efforts to tell this story have been celebratory, this one is a tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zorthian community members volunteer to clean up the rubble that remains after Eaton Fire destroyed The Barn, photographed on March 28, 2025 in Altadena, California. The Barn is where art shows and classes used to be held on the Ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Interviewing members of the community in the aftermath of this fire was a difficult and emotional experience for everyone involved. But in spite of the grim circumstances, I am surprised at how much cohesion emerged from what appeared to be a rather difficult and chaotic subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Themes like community, friendship, and love rose to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after spending the last few weeks trying to document that ethereal feeling I experienced in my first visit to the Ranch in 2019, I’ve arrived at a simpler explanation for why it all matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ranch was a space where community could gather. Where artists, musicians and performers could live for very low rent. Where humans could coexist and care for the land and the plants and animals that call it home, like our ancestors did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, life at the Ranch couldn’t be more simple. But in a city that often feels trapped in the vice of late stage capitalism, the Ranch became a radical idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What remains of the kitchen in Julia Zorthian and Gunner Sixx’s home, photographed on March 28, 2025 in Altadena, California. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_30_duo-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034245\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_30_duo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1585\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) The former site of The Barn at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. The Barn is where art shows and classes were held before the fire. (Right) Robert “Blobbie” Kirkhuff among the ruins of the Watchtower at Zorthian Ranch. The Watchtower was his home before the Eaton fire destroyed it. The skyline of downtown Los Angeles is visible in the background. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What happens when you create a space for community to live and gather together, to be in harmony with nature and to create and cultivate our own resources, both materially and spiritually?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer is magic. And unfortunately, that kind of magic is not available to very many people these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The devastating fire that destroyed Altadena — and most of the Zorthian Ranch — exposed the fragility of so many broken systems in the Western way of life: the lack of affordable housing or any real social safety net, the way we’ve ravaged our ecosystem and ignored Indigenous knowledge around fire, the lack of access to green open spaces for city dwellers and the difficulty of sourcing local and sustainable food products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020872 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193000280-1020x653.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But among the most important gaps in our current way of life is cultivating places to gather together, with the people you love, and experience what it is to be a human in communion with other humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that way, the Zorthian Ranch is more than a place in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026093/they-want-to-rebuild-after-the-eaton-fire-but-first-comes-the-struggle-to-survive\">Altadena\u003c/a>. It’s an idea. And ideas cannot be destroyed by fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My hope is that by sharing stories about places like the Ranch, we keep alive the idea that cultivating spaces for community to gather together in love and creativity is among the most important things we will ever do in our lifetimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m excited to watch how the Zorthians choose to rebuild. If you want to help contribute to those efforts, you can\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/Support-zorthian-ranch\"> support their fundraiser\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, this place that transformed the lives of so many people is undergoing a great transformation of its own. Jirayr’s son Alan is steadfast in his commitment to rebuilding. Cleanup efforts are ongoing, and some residents have already begun to move back to the Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the past is any indication, the future of the Zorthian Ranch will be something special to behold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a ranch. An artist community. A homestead. A portal to a different way of life. But there’s something else going on there. A sense of magic, hidden in the mountains, that reveals itself to those who leave behind the trappings of modern urban life and surrender to the silliest, most whimsical, most open version of themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have witnessed this place transform people. It even happened to me, a journalist from New Jersey with a rather serious disposition. I only lived at the Ranch for a matter of months, but have been a visitor for much longer. And during that time, I unlocked a new version of myself that I didn’t know existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1585\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-2048x1268.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-1920x1189.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) Writer Sam Anderson outside a burned out bus at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. (Right) One of the burned vehicles on the ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first time I came to the Ranch was in 2019 for a volunteer workday. As my tiny Volkswagen rattled across the precarious bridge and up the windy dirt road, I felt nervous with anticipation. What is this place? How does it possibly exist among the dense urban sprawl of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles-county\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I arrived at the top of the road to find a rambling property filled with strange buildings and objects. Art was everywhere. It was like nothing I had ever seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I joined a group of twenty or so people engaged in some form of toiling. I can’t remember what we did that day – probably pulled weeds or tossed some rocks into a pile or something similar. It was a sweltering summer day and by the afternoon everyone was covered in dirt and sweat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s emblazoned in my memory forever is what happened after the work was done. Everyone stripped completely naked and jumped in the pool. Music turned on. Drinks appeared. A raucous party began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pool was perched on top of a mountain with a panoramic view of Los Angeles. As the sun began to set over the hills, brilliant shades of orange and pink blazed across the sky and I had an indescribable feeling that I tapped into something special. What was this community I had encountered, filled with such creative, brilliant people?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I came back as frequently as I could, driven by some deep impulse that what I experienced there was magic. I couldn’t quite define the feeling, but I knew I wanted more of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, I got to know the place and its people in a more intimate way. Words are a poor substitute for what I experienced there, but it involved strange art performances, puppet shows,\u003ca href=\"https://slamgranderson.substack.com/p/zorthian-ranch-pizza-party\"> pizza parties\u003c/a> and surrealist dinners, costumes and music of all types, deep conversations, sleepovers with friends, staying up all night until the sunrise and a profound sense of love and belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Tara said, it woke you up. You felt your humanity. You understood what it meant to really love people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My experience is but a small fraction of what the Zorthian Ranch really was — and is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ranch has been around for nearly a century. It was founded by Jirayr Zorthian, a refugee from the Armenian genocide, who over the years developed a unique space that was both homestead and social scene. It became a magnet for bohemian artists in the ’50s and ’60s. It hosted countless parties, shows and performances, and over the years what happened to me — the discovery of magic within myself — happened to hundreds, if not thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034239\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tara Zorthian, a granddaughter of founder Jirayr Zorthian, at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. She lived on the ranch for eight years before moving away two years ago. The Eaton fire destroyed several structures as well as vegetation on the Ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cliche is that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone. But I think we did know. All of us who lived, visited and participated in the Ranch came away with a sense of how special it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the course of producing this non-narrated radio piece, I set out to capture that sense of specialness. And I knew that would be a challenge from the outset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, the 20 people who used to live here are now displaced. The community has scattered. Where previously I could simply show up and find several people to talk to, now I had to go about tracking them down to the various friend’s houses (and couches) where they were staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another challenge was trying to wrap my arms around such a sprawling subject. I understood that ultimately, any attempt to tell the entire story of the Zorthian Ranch in a single piece would be doomed to failure. I myself had actually tried — and failed — before. Along with a colleague of mine, I set out to uncover the fate of The Phantasmagoria of Military Intelligence Training, which is the most enduring mystery of the Zorthian Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story goes that Jirayr Zorthian created his greatest artwork of all time — a true masterpiece — in the form of a 157-foot mural that was first installed at the Pentagon, then possibly shuffled around other military locations, before it was lost forever.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The piece depicted the training and recruitment process of the military in not uncritical terms (could that be a motivation behind its disappearance?) and while the original has never been found, there is at least\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOFV1Mp1Nc4\"> a video\u003c/a> documenting what it looked like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suffice it to say my documentary about this missing art piece didn’t pan out. But the particular rabbit hole it sent me down — playfully referred to as “the Zortex” by those who live here — only reinforced my enduring fascination with the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several talented individuals have contributed to telling the story of the Zorthian Ranch, and while no one’s produced a truly definitive documentary about the place, there are several great attempts currently available to view (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ-GOuEZBUk\">such as this one, directed by Elisabeth de LeDoulx)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In typical Zorthian fashion, it becomes not about the efforts of one individual, but rather a collective effort spanning decades to document our own community, and articulate why it matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my own small way, I hope to contribute to those efforts. But where most efforts to tell this story have been celebratory, this one is a tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zorthian community members volunteer to clean up the rubble that remains after Eaton Fire destroyed The Barn, photographed on March 28, 2025 in Altadena, California. The Barn is where art shows and classes used to be held on the Ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Interviewing members of the community in the aftermath of this fire was a difficult and emotional experience for everyone involved. But in spite of the grim circumstances, I am surprised at how much cohesion emerged from what appeared to be a rather difficult and chaotic subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Themes like community, friendship, and love rose to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after spending the last few weeks trying to document that ethereal feeling I experienced in my first visit to the Ranch in 2019, I’ve arrived at a simpler explanation for why it all matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ranch was a space where community could gather. Where artists, musicians and performers could live for very low rent. Where humans could coexist and care for the land and the plants and animals that call it home, like our ancestors did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, life at the Ranch couldn’t be more simple. But in a city that often feels trapped in the vice of late stage capitalism, the Ranch became a radical idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What remains of the kitchen in Julia Zorthian and Gunner Sixx’s home, photographed on March 28, 2025 in Altadena, California. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_30_duo-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034245\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_30_duo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1585\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) The former site of The Barn at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. The Barn is where art shows and classes were held before the fire. (Right) Robert “Blobbie” Kirkhuff among the ruins of the Watchtower at Zorthian Ranch. The Watchtower was his home before the Eaton fire destroyed it. The skyline of downtown Los Angeles is visible in the background. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What happens when you create a space for community to live and gather together, to be in harmony with nature and to create and cultivate our own resources, both materially and spiritually?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer is magic. And unfortunately, that kind of magic is not available to very many people these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The devastating fire that destroyed Altadena — and most of the Zorthian Ranch — exposed the fragility of so many broken systems in the Western way of life: the lack of affordable housing or any real social safety net, the way we’ve ravaged our ecosystem and ignored Indigenous knowledge around fire, the lack of access to green open spaces for city dwellers and the difficulty of sourcing local and sustainable food products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But among the most important gaps in our current way of life is cultivating places to gather together, with the people you love, and experience what it is to be a human in communion with other humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that way, the Zorthian Ranch is more than a place in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026093/they-want-to-rebuild-after-the-eaton-fire-but-first-comes-the-struggle-to-survive\">Altadena\u003c/a>. It’s an idea. And ideas cannot be destroyed by fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My hope is that by sharing stories about places like the Ranch, we keep alive the idea that cultivating spaces for community to gather together in love and creativity is among the most important things we will ever do in our lifetimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m excited to watch how the Zorthians choose to rebuild. If you want to help contribute to those efforts, you can\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/Support-zorthian-ranch\"> support their fundraiser\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, this place that transformed the lives of so many people is undergoing a great transformation of its own. Jirayr’s son Alan is steadfast in his commitment to rebuilding. Cleanup efforts are ongoing, and some residents have already begun to move back to the Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the past is any indication, the future of the Zorthian Ranch will be something special to behold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Standing at the banks of the North Fork Eel River in a remote section of Mendocino County, Michelle Merrifield dipped her feet into the cool, clear water. It may have been the first time an Indigenous person accessed this section of the river in over 150 years. This particular stretch of water has long been held privately by ranchers until it passed into the hands of \u003ca href=\"https://wildlandsconservancy.org/\">The Wildlands Conservancy\u003c/a>, a conservation group, in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa’s ancestors called this river Xa-Cho. “That river is the blood pumping through Mother Earth to give it life,” she said. “And that’s in our DNA, that river. We are river people and salmon people. And that’s what we used to survive for generations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the state of California is laying the groundwork to build a 307-mile hiking trail that would run alongside this river. \u003ca href=\"https://thegreatredwoodtrail.org/\">The Great Redwood Trail \u003c/a>(GRT) would begin in Marin County and continue north through Sonoma, Mendocino, and Trinity counties, concluding in northern Humboldt County. It would follow the tracks of the now-defunct Northwestern Pacific Railroad, and if completed, it would become the longest rail trail in the nation. But the creation of the trail is unearthing painful memories for local Indigenous tribes who once called this land home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12009348 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05.jpg\" alt=\"A rusted metal crane with a yellow tip in a grassy landscape.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abandoned heavy machinery like this crane, found near Dos Rios in Mendocino, would have to be removed by the Great Redwood Trail Agency. \u003ccite>(Sam Anderson for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since time immemorial, Indigenous tribes like the Wailaki, Lassik, Nongatl, and Sinkyone (collectively known as The Eel River Athapaskans) lived in hundreds of villages scattered along the banks of the Xa-Cho and its many tributaries. They cultivated thriving populations of salmon, steelhead, and Pacific lamprey. They also built dugout canoes from redwood trees, using them to travel up and down the river for commerce and ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 1850s, these tribes were forcibly displaced by white colonizers and state militias, who massacred Indigenous people and razed villages along the Xa-Cho, which they re-named the Eel River (mistaking local lampreys for eels). This violence was funded and supported by the state and federal governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colonizers engaged in gold mining and cattle ranching, then timber logging, which became the dominant economic engine of the region by the late 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12009342 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a railroad track in a forest landscape.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Great Redwood Trail would be built alongside the railroad tracks, allowing public access to some remote areas of Northern California for the first time. The train tracks would be preserved through rail-banking, which allows for future railroad use. \u003ccite>(Anthony Wells)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To capitalize off of an increasingly productive lumber trade, a railroad was carved into the rugged landscape starting in 1905. The Northwestern Pacific traversed a wide variety of terrain, from rolling hills and plains to redwood forests to rocky northern coasts. However, the most difficult-to-build section of the railroad was a 75-mile stretch known as the Eel River Canyon. This steep-walled area is geologically unstable and prone to massive landslides and washouts. Despite the difficulty of the terrain, the railroad persevered, completing construction in 1915.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, the “golden spike ceremony” planned to celebrate the railroad’s completion was delayed by a landslide. And it wouldn’t be the last time natural forces disrupted this rail line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At many times, it was the most expensive line in the entire nation to maintain, just because of all the landslides,” explained Alicia Haman, executive director of the non-profit \u003ca href=\"https://eelriver.org/\">Friends of the Eel River\u003c/a>. “There were a lot of fatal incidents, with rail cars ending up in the river, and so it just became a huge burden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, kayakers often navigate from the headwaters in Mendocino National Forest to the river’s end in Humboldt Bay. Along the way, they have to dodge twisted rail lines, collapsed culverts, and entire train cars submerged in the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just boaters who are impacted by these hazards. According to Haman, this industrial waste is wreaking havoc on the environment, leaching toxic chemicals into the water and impacting fish habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are lots and lots of small tributaries to the main stem that have been blocked off. The fish can’t get up there to access the habitat that exists,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009343\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a train bridge and tunnel going into a mountain.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A train bridge near the meeting point of Mendocino, Humboldt, and Trinity Counties. Train tunnels provide a challenge to the GRT because they are frequently filled with debris and have also become habitats for wild animals like bats, which the government would have to relocate. \u003ccite>(Anthony Wells)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For these reasons, Haman’s organization supports the idea of building the Great Redwood Trail. That’s because the Great Redwood Trail Agency (GRTA), the government agency responsible for building the trail, would also be mandated to clean up the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absent the trail project, much of this [debris] would never be cleaned up, and it would just stay here,” Haman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GRTA would also perform fish habitat remediation, which could increase salmon and steelhead trout populations, a priority for environmentalists, who have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.themomentum.com/story-a/indigenous-voices-sustaining-californias-past-and-future\">long legacy in the region\u003c/a> fighting to protect native fish, redwood trees, and other vulnerable natural resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local Indigenous tribes have been at the center of many battles – past and present – to protect natural resources. And while cleaning up the Xa-Cho is a priority for the tribes with ancestral ties to the river, a serious debate is unfolding over whether a hiking trail is the best way to accomplish that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tribal people are no longer in that area, or haven’t been in over 100 years, because we were herded like cattle out of that area for landowners, loggers, and miners,” said Michelle Merrifield, a Wailacki descendent and member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009351\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08.jpg\" alt=\"An indigenous woman wearing a turquoise shirt stands outside in nature.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wailacki activist Michelle Merrifield stands at a viewpoint overlooking a remote stretch of the Eel River in Mendocino County. \u003ccite>(Sam Anderson for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michelle is leading a \u003ca href=\"https://mendofever.com/2024/06/02/leave-the-wildyou-already-took-enough-land-native-voices-challenge-the-great-redwood-trail/\">coalition of Native people\u003c/a> to stop the Great Redwood Trail from being built. At the core of their argument is frustration over not having access to their ancestral lands for over 100 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, over 50% of the Xa-Cho or Eel River is privately owned, according to Friends of the Eel River. In the more remote Eel River Canyon, there are few sections of riverfront that are accessible to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the Eel River watershed, there are hundreds of former Indigenous villages, burial grounds, and ceremonial sites. Many of them are located along the old Northwestern Pacific railroad tracks that have since become the GRT right-of-way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the demise of the Northwestern Pacific, the land was acquired by the state, which at one point tried to maintain the railroad tracks but failed to do so. The idea of a rail trail gained momentum, and in 2022, the state began a process known as railbanking, by which railroad tracks and other key infrastructure were preserved for future use, but alternative uses – like a hiking trail – would be allowed in the interim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, if the GRT were to be built, there is no guarantee it would remain a trail forever because the land could revert back to railroad use in the future. However, public officials said this is highly unlikely due to the cost and risk associated with maintaining the Northwestern Pacific line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12009347 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04.jpg\" alt=\"An upward view of redwood trees in a forest.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Humboldt County is famous for its Redwood trees, many of which were cut down for lumber during the 20th century and transported via the Northwestern Pacific Railroad. \u003ccite>(Sam Anderson for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If built, the Great Redwood Trail would open up vast sections of the Xa-Cho or Eel River to the public for the first time. Indigenous cultural sites along the path could also be exposed to foot traffic. The GRTA said it will protect these sites with proper signage and interpretative sites, but tribal members said this does not go far enough to ensure that sensitive Native areas are protected from destruction and looting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GRT proponents imagine hikers, horseback riders, bicyclists, and others enjoying this land for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the Indigenous people who were forcibly displaced from their ancestral land after years of violent colonialism, prioritizing public access over tribal access resurfaces old wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s people that are feeling threatened by being plowed over by this force that’s plowed over us in the past,” said Perry Lincoln, Wailacki descendant and leader of the Kinesté Coalition, a Native community group. “Now, it’s kind of a different situation, but in one sense, it’s the same situation. The Great Redwood Trail… it’s not a good idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a local community meeting where tribal members came together with property owners and government officials, Lincoln told the story of his grandfather, a Native leader named Lassik, who led a fierce resistance to colonial encroachment. Lassik was eventually killed by colonizers in the same area where the meeting was being held, a place the colonizers named Fort Seward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indigenous people have found common ground with white property owners, who are also wary of the impact the public trail will have on lands they have long controlled and kept private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community meetings organized around the Great Redwood Trail are facilitating some of the first face-to-face conversations between Native people and white landowners in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peggy Satterly is a local property owner whose parents bought a ranch along the Eel River over 80 years ago. She was visibly moved after hearing Perry Lincoln speak about the violent history of Fort Seward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought of owning the land as pushing you off the land,” Satterly said. I’m bitter and protective of this land. As I know that you guys are, too. And I’ll do anything to help you to protect your sites and your places. The river is your river. It’s not my river.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landowners said they are concerned about fire danger and littering, while Indigenous people emphasize the risk to important cultural areas that contain grave sites and priceless artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want people to work together,” Lincoln continued. “We don’t want there to be some division between native and non-native. Reviving our culture means land access. It means working with landowners that have a longstanding interest in the land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, the GRTA said it is committed to speaking and working with Native tribes throughout the process of developing the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, executive director of the GRTA Elaine Hogan wrote, “Over the past 2+ years, we have been in contact with about 40 California Native American Tribes and tribal organizations (which includes ‘unrecognized’ tribes). That doesn’t just mean sending a letter or email, but following up via phone and in-person visits, presentations at tribal council meetings, and meetings with tribal government staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009349\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a river with large rocks around the grassy landscape.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Eel River from Route 162 on the way to the Round Valley Reservation where Michelle Merrifield lives. \u003ccite>(Sam Anderson for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michelle Merrifield, a Round Valley tribal member who is leading the opposition to the trail, disputes this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve written some letters to the Great Redwood Trail back in November and December [2023], and we didn’t get any answers back,” she said. “We went to some meetings that the GRTA had in Ukiah and Eureka and were given three minutes to voice our opinion and comments on the trail. And to me, that’s not sufficient consultation with the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Xa-Cho or Eel River Canyon is the most contentious segment of the trail, other segments have already been built or are presently under construction. Much of the GRT would involve constructing new trails, but other sections involve simply connecting pre-existing trails and paths. This includes sections of a paved multi-use trail in Ukiah, and the Humboldt Bay Trail between Eureka and Arcata.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The segment of trail that would traverse the Eel River Canyon is still several years away from construction, if it gets built at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Mike McGuire, a key supporter of the GRT, said that paved multi-use sections that could accommodate pedestrians, bicycles, and other uses could cost up to $900,000 per mile of trail, while more rugged backcountry sections would cost closer to around $300,000 per mile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even in remote, backcountry sections like the Eel River Canyon, infrastructure projects like parking lots, public restrooms, camping areas and day-use sites could potentially transform the landscape, along with the daily lives of those who live alongside the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://greatredwoodtrailplan.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Great-Redwood-Trail-Draft-Master-Plan_Accessible-compressed.pdf\">Draft Master Plan\u003c/a> published by the GRTA claims the trail would generate $169,000 per day in revenue and that small towns and communities that have struggled due to the collapse of cannabis prices would benefit the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Round Valley Reservation in Covelo, Michelle Merrifield reflected back on her experience touching that remote section of the Eel River for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so breathtaking. It’s awesome. I would love to share that. But I just can’t trust people would treat it the way I would treat it. These trees are talking to us, the river is talking to us, the rocks are talking to us. Everything comes alive to me out there. And it sickens me that they’re going to have people just traipsing up and down there who are just hikers or thrill seekers.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Standing at the banks of the North Fork Eel River in a remote section of Mendocino County, Michelle Merrifield dipped her feet into the cool, clear water. It may have been the first time an Indigenous person accessed this section of the river in over 150 years. This particular stretch of water has long been held privately by ranchers until it passed into the hands of \u003ca href=\"https://wildlandsconservancy.org/\">The Wildlands Conservancy\u003c/a>, a conservation group, in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa’s ancestors called this river Xa-Cho. “That river is the blood pumping through Mother Earth to give it life,” she said. “And that’s in our DNA, that river. We are river people and salmon people. And that’s what we used to survive for generations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the state of California is laying the groundwork to build a 307-mile hiking trail that would run alongside this river. \u003ca href=\"https://thegreatredwoodtrail.org/\">The Great Redwood Trail \u003c/a>(GRT) would begin in Marin County and continue north through Sonoma, Mendocino, and Trinity counties, concluding in northern Humboldt County. It would follow the tracks of the now-defunct Northwestern Pacific Railroad, and if completed, it would become the longest rail trail in the nation. But the creation of the trail is unearthing painful memories for local Indigenous tribes who once called this land home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12009348 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05.jpg\" alt=\"A rusted metal crane with a yellow tip in a grassy landscape.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abandoned heavy machinery like this crane, found near Dos Rios in Mendocino, would have to be removed by the Great Redwood Trail Agency. \u003ccite>(Sam Anderson for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since time immemorial, Indigenous tribes like the Wailaki, Lassik, Nongatl, and Sinkyone (collectively known as The Eel River Athapaskans) lived in hundreds of villages scattered along the banks of the Xa-Cho and its many tributaries. They cultivated thriving populations of salmon, steelhead, and Pacific lamprey. They also built dugout canoes from redwood trees, using them to travel up and down the river for commerce and ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 1850s, these tribes were forcibly displaced by white colonizers and state militias, who massacred Indigenous people and razed villages along the Xa-Cho, which they re-named the Eel River (mistaking local lampreys for eels). This violence was funded and supported by the state and federal governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colonizers engaged in gold mining and cattle ranching, then timber logging, which became the dominant economic engine of the region by the late 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12009342 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a railroad track in a forest landscape.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Great Redwood Trail would be built alongside the railroad tracks, allowing public access to some remote areas of Northern California for the first time. The train tracks would be preserved through rail-banking, which allows for future railroad use. \u003ccite>(Anthony Wells)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To capitalize off of an increasingly productive lumber trade, a railroad was carved into the rugged landscape starting in 1905. The Northwestern Pacific traversed a wide variety of terrain, from rolling hills and plains to redwood forests to rocky northern coasts. However, the most difficult-to-build section of the railroad was a 75-mile stretch known as the Eel River Canyon. This steep-walled area is geologically unstable and prone to massive landslides and washouts. Despite the difficulty of the terrain, the railroad persevered, completing construction in 1915.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, the “golden spike ceremony” planned to celebrate the railroad’s completion was delayed by a landslide. And it wouldn’t be the last time natural forces disrupted this rail line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At many times, it was the most expensive line in the entire nation to maintain, just because of all the landslides,” explained Alicia Haman, executive director of the non-profit \u003ca href=\"https://eelriver.org/\">Friends of the Eel River\u003c/a>. “There were a lot of fatal incidents, with rail cars ending up in the river, and so it just became a huge burden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, kayakers often navigate from the headwaters in Mendocino National Forest to the river’s end in Humboldt Bay. Along the way, they have to dodge twisted rail lines, collapsed culverts, and entire train cars submerged in the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just boaters who are impacted by these hazards. According to Haman, this industrial waste is wreaking havoc on the environment, leaching toxic chemicals into the water and impacting fish habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are lots and lots of small tributaries to the main stem that have been blocked off. The fish can’t get up there to access the habitat that exists,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009343\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a train bridge and tunnel going into a mountain.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A train bridge near the meeting point of Mendocino, Humboldt, and Trinity Counties. Train tunnels provide a challenge to the GRT because they are frequently filled with debris and have also become habitats for wild animals like bats, which the government would have to relocate. \u003ccite>(Anthony Wells)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For these reasons, Haman’s organization supports the idea of building the Great Redwood Trail. That’s because the Great Redwood Trail Agency (GRTA), the government agency responsible for building the trail, would also be mandated to clean up the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absent the trail project, much of this [debris] would never be cleaned up, and it would just stay here,” Haman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GRTA would also perform fish habitat remediation, which could increase salmon and steelhead trout populations, a priority for environmentalists, who have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.themomentum.com/story-a/indigenous-voices-sustaining-californias-past-and-future\">long legacy in the region\u003c/a> fighting to protect native fish, redwood trees, and other vulnerable natural resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local Indigenous tribes have been at the center of many battles – past and present – to protect natural resources. And while cleaning up the Xa-Cho is a priority for the tribes with ancestral ties to the river, a serious debate is unfolding over whether a hiking trail is the best way to accomplish that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tribal people are no longer in that area, or haven’t been in over 100 years, because we were herded like cattle out of that area for landowners, loggers, and miners,” said Michelle Merrifield, a Wailacki descendent and member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009351\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08.jpg\" alt=\"An indigenous woman wearing a turquoise shirt stands outside in nature.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wailacki activist Michelle Merrifield stands at a viewpoint overlooking a remote stretch of the Eel River in Mendocino County. \u003ccite>(Sam Anderson for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michelle is leading a \u003ca href=\"https://mendofever.com/2024/06/02/leave-the-wildyou-already-took-enough-land-native-voices-challenge-the-great-redwood-trail/\">coalition of Native people\u003c/a> to stop the Great Redwood Trail from being built. At the core of their argument is frustration over not having access to their ancestral lands for over 100 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, over 50% of the Xa-Cho or Eel River is privately owned, according to Friends of the Eel River. In the more remote Eel River Canyon, there are few sections of riverfront that are accessible to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the Eel River watershed, there are hundreds of former Indigenous villages, burial grounds, and ceremonial sites. Many of them are located along the old Northwestern Pacific railroad tracks that have since become the GRT right-of-way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the demise of the Northwestern Pacific, the land was acquired by the state, which at one point tried to maintain the railroad tracks but failed to do so. The idea of a rail trail gained momentum, and in 2022, the state began a process known as railbanking, by which railroad tracks and other key infrastructure were preserved for future use, but alternative uses – like a hiking trail – would be allowed in the interim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, if the GRT were to be built, there is no guarantee it would remain a trail forever because the land could revert back to railroad use in the future. However, public officials said this is highly unlikely due to the cost and risk associated with maintaining the Northwestern Pacific line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12009347 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04.jpg\" alt=\"An upward view of redwood trees in a forest.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Humboldt County is famous for its Redwood trees, many of which were cut down for lumber during the 20th century and transported via the Northwestern Pacific Railroad. \u003ccite>(Sam Anderson for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If built, the Great Redwood Trail would open up vast sections of the Xa-Cho or Eel River to the public for the first time. Indigenous cultural sites along the path could also be exposed to foot traffic. The GRTA said it will protect these sites with proper signage and interpretative sites, but tribal members said this does not go far enough to ensure that sensitive Native areas are protected from destruction and looting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GRT proponents imagine hikers, horseback riders, bicyclists, and others enjoying this land for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the Indigenous people who were forcibly displaced from their ancestral land after years of violent colonialism, prioritizing public access over tribal access resurfaces old wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s people that are feeling threatened by being plowed over by this force that’s plowed over us in the past,” said Perry Lincoln, Wailacki descendant and leader of the Kinesté Coalition, a Native community group. “Now, it’s kind of a different situation, but in one sense, it’s the same situation. The Great Redwood Trail… it’s not a good idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a local community meeting where tribal members came together with property owners and government officials, Lincoln told the story of his grandfather, a Native leader named Lassik, who led a fierce resistance to colonial encroachment. Lassik was eventually killed by colonizers in the same area where the meeting was being held, a place the colonizers named Fort Seward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indigenous people have found common ground with white property owners, who are also wary of the impact the public trail will have on lands they have long controlled and kept private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community meetings organized around the Great Redwood Trail are facilitating some of the first face-to-face conversations between Native people and white landowners in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peggy Satterly is a local property owner whose parents bought a ranch along the Eel River over 80 years ago. She was visibly moved after hearing Perry Lincoln speak about the violent history of Fort Seward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought of owning the land as pushing you off the land,” Satterly said. I’m bitter and protective of this land. As I know that you guys are, too. And I’ll do anything to help you to protect your sites and your places. The river is your river. It’s not my river.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landowners said they are concerned about fire danger and littering, while Indigenous people emphasize the risk to important cultural areas that contain grave sites and priceless artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want people to work together,” Lincoln continued. “We don’t want there to be some division between native and non-native. Reviving our culture means land access. It means working with landowners that have a longstanding interest in the land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, the GRTA said it is committed to speaking and working with Native tribes throughout the process of developing the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, executive director of the GRTA Elaine Hogan wrote, “Over the past 2+ years, we have been in contact with about 40 California Native American Tribes and tribal organizations (which includes ‘unrecognized’ tribes). That doesn’t just mean sending a letter or email, but following up via phone and in-person visits, presentations at tribal council meetings, and meetings with tribal government staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009349\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a river with large rocks around the grassy landscape.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Eel River from Route 162 on the way to the Round Valley Reservation where Michelle Merrifield lives. \u003ccite>(Sam Anderson for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michelle Merrifield, a Round Valley tribal member who is leading the opposition to the trail, disputes this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve written some letters to the Great Redwood Trail back in November and December [2023], and we didn’t get any answers back,” she said. “We went to some meetings that the GRTA had in Ukiah and Eureka and were given three minutes to voice our opinion and comments on the trail. And to me, that’s not sufficient consultation with the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Xa-Cho or Eel River Canyon is the most contentious segment of the trail, other segments have already been built or are presently under construction. Much of the GRT would involve constructing new trails, but other sections involve simply connecting pre-existing trails and paths. This includes sections of a paved multi-use trail in Ukiah, and the Humboldt Bay Trail between Eureka and Arcata.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The segment of trail that would traverse the Eel River Canyon is still several years away from construction, if it gets built at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Mike McGuire, a key supporter of the GRT, said that paved multi-use sections that could accommodate pedestrians, bicycles, and other uses could cost up to $900,000 per mile of trail, while more rugged backcountry sections would cost closer to around $300,000 per mile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even in remote, backcountry sections like the Eel River Canyon, infrastructure projects like parking lots, public restrooms, camping areas and day-use sites could potentially transform the landscape, along with the daily lives of those who live alongside the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://greatredwoodtrailplan.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Great-Redwood-Trail-Draft-Master-Plan_Accessible-compressed.pdf\">Draft Master Plan\u003c/a> published by the GRTA claims the trail would generate $169,000 per day in revenue and that small towns and communities that have struggled due to the collapse of cannabis prices would benefit the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Round Valley Reservation in Covelo, Michelle Merrifield reflected back on her experience touching that remote section of the Eel River for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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