Indian Law Case Results

• Obtained federal legislation securing a $42 million judgment fund for payment of Indian tribal land claim.
• Wrote and oversaw enactment of legislation and executive branch implementation of program to restore one of the largest rivers in California and the fishery on which several Indian tribes depend. This activity accomplished the greatest reallocation of water (250,00 acre-feet annually) to environmental protection and “green” economic development in the 100-year history of the federal reclamation program.
• Wrote and oversaw enactment of legislation to restore to Indian tribe 2,600 acres of old-growth forest land in California that had been wrongfully seized by the federal government in the 19th century.