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Aridification could reshape the U.S. West

California is at risk of profound effects as climate change exacerbates dryness. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, June 30, 2022 Unprecedented dryness across the western United States is meeting with increasingly warm temperatures to create climate conditions so extreme that the landscape of California could permanently and Read more…

By Steve, 3 yearsJune 30, 2022 ago
Drilling, Mining, Logging

Drought, wildfire and commerce prompt massive forest thinning plan for Big Bear Lake

Federal officials have proposed a massive forest thinning project north of Big Bear Lake, citing drought and the threat of wildfire. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, June 9, 2022. For decades, thousands of acres of undeveloped public forest on the northern side of Big Bear Lake have Read more…

By Steve, 3 yearsJune 9, 2022 ago
California

A flutter of magical hope on the Central Coast, as monarch butterflies return

The data made clear what many have been noting since October: The monarchs are back, even if it’s far from the millions that arrived as recently as the ’80s. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, February 2, 2022 OS OSOS, Calif. — There was the distinctive noise of something falling. Read more…

By Steve, 3 yearsFebruary 2, 2022 ago
California State Parks

Backbone Trail back in business after fire

Source of this article, The Thousand Oaks Acorn, July 25, 2019 Eight months after the largest fire to ever hit Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, all 67 miles of the park’s most famous trail have reopened to the public. The final six miles of the Backbone Trail that had Read more…

By Steve, 6 yearsJuly 25, 2019 ago
California State Parks

Mothers of the Santa Monica Mountains

Three women fought to create the Santa Monica Mountains parkland now burned by the Woolsey fire Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, December 2, 2018 The Woolsey fire was a 14-mile-long wall of flames when, on the morning of Nov. 9, it jumped the 101 Freeway and began Read more…

By Steve, 7 yearsDecember 2, 2018 ago
California State Parks

LA-area mountain lions face a smaller, harsher world after wildfires

It will take ’10 to 20 years’ before Santa Monica Mountains look like they did before Woolsey fire Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, November 18, 2018 Two dozen biologists with binoculars and telemetry equipment fanned out across the smoldering gulches and slopes of the Santa Monica Mountains Read more…

By Steve, 7 yearsNovember 18, 2018 ago
California

Inmates in the line of fire

A force of about 3,800 state prisoners, including about 250 female inmates, is trained and ready to be mobilized to the front line Source of this article, The Thousand Oaks Acorn, July 7, 2016 Ventura fire camp inmate Luiz Galvez was startled awake by shouting in the dorm room around Read more…

By Steve, 9 yearsJuly 7, 2016 ago
Fire Hazard

$75,000 in rewards offered to catch operators who flew drones above fires

San Bernardino County supervisors unanimously agreed Tuesday to offer rewards for help in tracking down drone operators who interfered with firefighters during three major wildfires this summer. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2015 After the unmanned devices were spotted flying above flames and smoke from Read more…

By Steve, 10 yearsJuly 29, 2015 ago
California

Drought kills 12 million trees in California’s national forests

Millions of trees continue to die in California due to drought and bark beetle invasion Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, May 6, 2015 Rangers in the San Bernardino National Forest call them “red trees.” Instead of the typical deep green color, large swaths of pine trees now Read more…

By Steve, 10 yearsMay 6, 2015 ago
California

In store for visitors to Yosemite: a drier, browner park

Park’s famous falls will be less of a draw this year Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2015 Yosemite National Park is bracing for its driest year on record, with visitor bureaus downplaying the allure of the park’s most famous waterfall and instead touting the park Read more…

By Steve, 10 yearsMarch 28, 2015 ago

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