For the second time this year, the State of California Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy (CVMC) has returned a parcel of ancestral land back to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. This donation of 320 acres, combined with a 280-acre donation made by the Friends of the Desert Mountains with the help of the conservancy last April, brings the total amount to 600 acres of ancestral land returned to the tribe.