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The Feds Rejected Over 130 Park Projects Last Month, and California Took the Biggest Hits
1+ day, 23+ min ago (186+ words) More than 130 planned projects at national parks, together worth over $25 million, were quietly rejected by the Interior Department last month, and California parks took some of the biggest hits. The projects were partnership agreements with outside nonprofits and universities, the…...
California Responds to Trump Wolf Order: State Protections Are Not Going Anywhere
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (261+ words) activenorcal.com 1533:063017:86F:0000::2E[135:0095]G[008:0x0006] President Trump's September 4 executive order asking federal officials to consider stripping Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves landed hard in Northern California, where 13 packs now roam and ranchers in Siskiyou, Sierra, and Plumas counties have spent…...
Everything We Know So Far About the Private Yosemite Land Deal That Has California Furious
1+ week, 6+ day ago (266+ words) Conservationists are calling it something that has never happened in Yosemite’s history: a piece of the national park handed over to a private developer. The Trump administration is weighing a land swap that would transfer a quarter mile strip inside…...
The Trump Administration Wants to Give Part of Yosemite to a Developer
2+ week, 1+ day ago (244+ words) For the first time in more than 150 years, a piece of Yosemite National Park could wind up in private hands, and the deal is being worked out largely behind closed doors. The National Park Service has spent over a year…...
The Firefighting Rule America Abandoned 50 Years Ago Could Be Coming Back
2+ week, 5+ day ago (223+ words) Active NorCal For much of the 20th century, American wildfires came with a deadline Under a policy adopted in 1933, the US Forest Service required that every wildland fire be put out by 10 a.m the day after it was spotted Now, nearly…...
The Feds Want to Scrap the Roadless Rule, Opening 4.4 Million Acres of California Forest
3+ week, 4+ day ago (150+ words) Some of Northern California’s wildest backcountry could soon be open to chainsaws and bulldozers. The U.S. Forest Service formally proposed scrapping the Roadless Rule this week, a 2001 regulation that has kept road building and commercial logging out of nearly 45 million…...
The Teen Lifeguard From That Viral Santa Cruz Rescue Just Went to the White House
3+ week, 5+ day ago (229+ words) The last time most of NorCal saw Ryder Williams, he was disappearing under crashing waves at Seabright State Beach with an iron grip on a drowning boy. On Monday, the 16-year-old lifeguard was sitting in the Oval Office. President Trump…...