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Fight To Save Local Farmland Gets Personal - grow to a proposed power transmission line that would carve a wide and destructive path through productive agricultural land in Northern California, threatening long-time farming families and the businesses and communities that both depend upon and support them...

The Sites Project is a proposed 1.8 million acre-foot offstream reservoir in California’s largest watershed. This innovative and environmentally-focused project, located in Colusa County, will greatly increase the reliability of statewide water supplies for environmental, agricultural and urban uses...

The book Young Men and Fire by author Norman Maclean about the loss of a team of smoke jumpers in a fire in Montana in 1949, is just one of the stories that serves as a reminder about the dangerous nature of fire in the west. Since 1949, more firefighters have lost their lives and the number of deaths seems to be increasing with the severity of the fires...

Orleans California has been the location of the Klamath River Training Exchange (TREX) a cooperative effort between the Salmon River Restoration Council, Mid Klamath Watershed Council, the Karuk Tribe and the Nature Conservancy, to train people traditional method of fuel reduction, used by tribes in the area for generations, prescribed fire...

When the first State of the Sierra Nevada’s Forests report was released in 2014, conditions in the Sierra Nevada appeared to be at their worst. The Region had just experienced its largest fire in recorded history, the 2013 Rim Fire, and the trend toward larger, more severe wildfires in Sierra Forests...

The much needed rain that last winter delivered was a welcome relief from the drought, but for many forests in California the rain was too little too late. Thousands of acres of forest land in California have...