Koy'o Land Conservancy (Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated Tribe)

What happened

The Koy'o Land Conservancy was created in July 2020 on behalf of the Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated Tribe's Tribal Council, according to the tribe's own website. The name comes from one of the villages in the Colfax, California, area. The tribe says the conservancy's focus is to restore traditional homelands to tribal members and maintain its properties through cultural practices and traditions. ProPublica lists the combined tribal and conservancy entity in Auburn, California, under EIN 85-3717219.

The tribe's page describes two transfers. On April 16, 2021, it says the conservancy made its first land transfer: the return of a piece of the tribe's original rancheria property. It says the event acknowledged a donation from Sue Ghilotti, and that a signing took place between her and Tribal Chairman Clyde Prout III.

The second is a preserve. The tribe says that in mid-2021 it met with Placer Land Trust about a property it owned, the Gerjuoy North Fork Preserve, in the tribe's ancestral homelands. The tribe wanted the land to maintain cultural practices such as prescribed cultural burns and native plant revitalization. Per the tribe, the two agreed to keep the property as it is, and signed documents for the conservancy to take it in on the tribe's behalf.

The tribe's page gives no acreage for either property.

Good to know. Details of both transfers come from the tribe's own page, which gives no acreage. No donation page was found.

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