The third event of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2024 Annual Symposium was a series of individual presentations from speakers on land back and indigenous stewardship. First, a presentation on environmental justice in the Jackson Demonstration State Forest by climate attorney Matt Simmons from the Environmental Protection Information Center. Second, a presentation on how traditional ecological knowledge can and should be incorporated into environmental decision making under the California Environmental Quality Act by Curtis Vandermolen, an expert in federal Indian law and long-time practitioner in negotiations between the California state government and Native Tribes and Nations. Third, an individual presentation on Native land trusts by Stanford Indigenous archaeologist Michael Wilcox, focusing on the past and present of Indigenous people’s relationship with landscapes in the Bay.
The moderator was Natalie Friedberg. The speakers were Matt Simmons, Curtis Vandermolen, and Michael Wilcox.
