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Pit River

American  
[pit] / pɪt /

noun

  1. a river in N California, flowing S and W from the Modoc Plateau to the Sacramento River. 200 miles (320 km) long.


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The Pit River Nation, which spearheaded the campaign for the designation, considers the Medicine Lake Highlands area near Mt.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2025

The Pit River Tribe has long been involved in litigation to prevent the development of geothermal energy systems in the area.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2025

“We rely on the waters and the food and the medicines that come from this area, and we need it to be a healthy, whole and intact place,” the Pit River Nation’s McDaniels said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2024

“Time is running out,” Brandy McDaniels of the Pit River Nation said last month at COP 16, the United Nations biodiversity summit in Colombia, bringing the plea to a world stage.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2024

My prediction came true a year and a half later, only that the Pit River bridge and not the junipers bore the fruit.

From Reminiscences of a Pioneer by Thompson, William, Colonel

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