AMLT’s Newsletter!
AMLT releases a electronic newsletter that is distributed through email and placed on our website. These newsletters include opening statements from Chairman Lopez, our Executive Director, and highlight some of the recent projects and other initiatives of AMLT. If you would like to be added to the mailing list, please fill out the form here, or send an email to info@amahmutsun.org asking to be added to the mailing list.
2024 Spring Equinox Newsletter
Letter from Chairman Lopez, AMLT Board President
By Valentin Lopez, President of AMLT and Tribal Chairman
Dear Friends,
Today is the Spring Equinox, a time of balance when night and day are the same length. The equinox is a time when we experience a renewal of energy and witness the fruits of our efforts bloom. In our Spring Equinox newsletter, you will read highlights of two partnership efforts that we are proud of. I’d like to take a moment to talk about partnerships, and what they mean for our Tribe and the land trust...continue reading.
AMLT’s Newest Partnership to Protect Ancestral Lands
By Sara French, AMLT Director of Development
Since its inception, Amah Mutsun Land Trust (AMLT) has exemplified and embraced the power of partnerships. Through Memoranda of Understanding, conservation easements, and a variety of partnership agreements, AMLT has established opportunities for Indigenous stewardship, Tribal access, and co-management on conserved lands throughout AMLT's stewardship territory...continue reading.
AMLT’s Partnership with State Parks Revitalizes Indigenous Stewardship of the California Coast
By Mohini Narasimhan, AMLT Development and Communications Manager
On a sunny afternoon out in Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve, a group gathers to hear Valentin Lopez, Chair of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, and Rob Cuthrell, Director of Native Plant Stewardship for the Amah Mutsun Land Trust (AMLT), introduce them to the land they currently stand on. This group represents district superintendents, tribal affairs liaisons, and memorandum of understanding specialists from California Department of Parks and Recreation (State Parks) districts across California. As many other State Parks districts are at long last entering into partnerships with tribal communities many of which through MOU signings, these district superintendents sought an existing partnership to learn from...continue reading.
How AMLT is Leveraging Maps and Spatial Science to Restore Ecosystems and Cultural Connections
By Annie Taylor, AMLT Consultant and PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley
The Amah Mutsun Land Trust (AMLT) has been doing groundbreaking work to map culturally important places and resources across the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band’s (AMTB) homelands for many years. As an environmental scientist specializing in mapping and spatial science, I was thrilled to get involved a few years ago to lead some of this work...continue reading.
Notes from the Native Stewardship Corps: Returning Fire to Mutsun Territory
Esak Ordoñez, a Tribal member and AMLT Native Steward, has spent much of the past two years participating in a fire apprenticeship program to gain experience as a fire practitioner.
Here, Esak shares his experiences with cultural burns, collaborations with Tribes, and returning fire to his ancestral territory...continue reading.
Amah Mutsun Ethnobotany
By Josh Higuera-Hood, AMLT Ethnobotany Specialist and Tribal Member
Do you want to learn more about the useful and culturally significant plants in the California landscape? Each AMLT newsletter will highlight a native plant that is used by the Amah Mutsun. Click here to read more about the ethnobotany of California wild rose.
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