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News from Native California Volume 38, Issue 3 offers ten probing features that include reflections on the wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles, the return of salmon to the Klamath River following the demolition of four hydroelectric dams, and the work of Indigenous science to restore cultural keystone species.

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