Newsletter

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...

In an audit done by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) completed in July 2016 of the USDA Forest Service (FS) hazardous fuels reduction, the auditor’s office reviewed controls on selection of projects, impacts on Community Wildfires Protection Plans and if the agency responded to the corrective actions outlined in the 2016 audit...

While it might seem strange to some, to have a Sacramento Valley Newsletter be devoted to fire, you only have to think about the millions of dollars being spent on fisheries restoration to understand ...