Yurok Transit

The tribe has quite a few enterprises for tourism, the main one being a casino. (I had neither the desire nor the money for visiting the casino.)

I talked for a bit with the two Yurok drivers of these vans. I asked how the salmon run was this year. It was "terrible, the worst year we can remember." Salmon conservation is a loaded political topic, with ranchers up the Klamath River in Eastern Oregon insisting that their cattle have a "right" to the water, no matter that the salmon population is declining rapidly. To the Yurok, salmon are life.