Long eradicated from Northern California, gray wolves are reappearing — but their new habitat also means new threats for ranchers whose livestock provide easy prey. Efforts are being made at the county, state and federal levels to find solutions that allow for coexistence between people, their livestock and wolves.
A beloved lake is facing an unclear future in Shingletown as PG&E prepares to pull out of the Battle Creek Hydroelectric Project, which could include removing the dam that forms McCumber reservoir. A group of local residents that hopes to save the lake will face a multitude of environmental, cultural, financial and regulatory complexities to do so.
The agency is updating its community involvement plan for the Iron Mountain Mine Superfund site after more than three decades. It will shape how the EPA engages with residents in the years ahead. Officials say systems are working as intended at the contaminated site, and no major operational changes are planned.
Neither of the prospective candidates mentioned environmental concerns in their applications, a perspective that's been missing since two commissioners were replaced last year.
The state agency denied energy giant Repsol the required certification to develop a wind energy project on Pit River holy lands. It’s the third time the project has been denied. The first two denials occurred locally, in Shasta County.
The order comes about a year after the species was first discovered in North America. The mussels have caused significant damage since then.
Over 97% of the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area was burned in the Carr Fire, including WES. The damage halted programs for children that have been in place for decades. Five years later, WES is still working to bring back its beloved overnight camp.
Despite the hopeful strides the river has taken in healing, scientists say federal funding cuts pose a setback to continued scientific monitoring.
Throughout this fall, winter, and spring, teams of fire experts will be starting and maintaining controlled burns in areas of forest across Shasta County. The burns are part of land management practices that have long been known to nourish the forest and ease the severity of future wildfires.
The Root Fire is now half contained, burning a swath of hundreds of acres of forested land in the northwest corner of Shasta County.
