Years ago, scientists said climate change would bring a Colorado River crisis. Their warnings, which largely went unheeded, are now playing out. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, July 17, 2022 The Colorado River is approaching a breaking point, its reservoirs depleted and Western states under pressure to Read more…
Mariano Rancho Preserve is expected to open to the public after a 2 to 3 year review and planning process is complete. Source of this article: The Ventura Land Trust, July 8, 2022 Ventura Land Trust has been awarded $7.2 million from the State of California to complete the acquisition Read more…
Legislation heads off what would have been costly and contentious ballot measure. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2022 SACRAMENTO — Striking a blow against a pernicious form of pollution, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Thursday the nation’s most far-reaching restrictions on single-use plastics and packaging. The Read more…
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…
Extreme drought and bark beetles now threaten California’s Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, home to Methuselah, a 4,853-year-old bristlecone pine. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, June 27, 2022 BISHOP, Calif. — Forest pathologist Martin MacKenzie strode forward on a narrow path through California’s mythic bristlecone pine forest in the White Read more…
Source of this article: The Santa Barbara Independent, June 23, 2022. A small group of us had the privilege of recently touring the Strauss Wind Energy Project in Lompoc while it is under construction. It is the first and only wind project permitted anywhere along the California coast. From the Read more…
P-54 was struck around 9:30 a.m. in the Santa Monica Mountains. Her mother was killed in 2018, and one of her sons was killed just two months ago. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, June 17, 2022. A mountain lion was struck and killed by a vehicle Friday Read more…
Forest thinning is now being conducted at Yosemite National Park. Environmentalists want it to stop, saying the work was never fully vetted. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, June 14, 2022. For more than a century, Yosemite National Park was viewed as a refuge where nature prevails unmolested Read more…
CHAMPS—Every female member of the Newbury Park Mountain Bike team who competed in last month’s Championship National Interscholastic Cycling Association race earned a spot on the awards podium. Source of this article: The Thousand Oaks Acorn, June 10, 2022. From left, Keelan Nygren (eighth grade, third place), Audrey Walsh (eighth Read more…
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…