White Buffalo

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Firefighters assess their plan of attack during the 2008 Tea Fire.

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State Route 225

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Mountain View School students took a tour of More Mesa in early May, getting a healthy dose of nature with science teacher Ellen Clark.

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Solar arrays are becoming more and more commonplace on the reservation, with this system (middle) installed a little more than a year ago on the Administrative Building. Currently, nearly one half of all the energy used in the administrative offices and the nearby health-services building are offset by the panels.

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Three of the men leading the Chumash’s vast and varied “green initiatives”: (from left) Tribal Administrator Willie Wyatt, Environmental Management Specialist Jesse Patterson, and Environmental Program Director Josh Simmons.

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Tribal descendant Andrew Mendoza works for the tribe’s Environmental Office and tends to the reservation’s budding biofuel station, preparing veg-oil waste from the casino to be used as fuel for work trucks.

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Extensive money-saving systems on private homes like the Jimenez family’s on-reservation dwelling (top, with daughter Catherine in the foreground).

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Native drought-tolerant landscapes.

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Solar panels on the rooftops of tribal buildings.

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from left: Judges Tom Jacobs, Elizabeth Schwyzer, Philip Brandes, Starshine Roshell, Charles Donelan, and Barney Brantingham

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Jenna Scanlon and Brian Harwell

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Mandee Sikich

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Chris Wagstaffe

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Theodore Michael Dolas

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Jenny Sullivan

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Merlin Huff’s mother

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Tiffany Story

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John Blondell

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Quinlan Fitzgerald

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James Connolly

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John Douglas

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Kyra Lehman

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Steve Cushman

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Michael Ganschow

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Laura Stinchfield

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ADMHS Director Dr. Ann Detrick (center)

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