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.
The official death count from the Palisades and Eaton fires was 30 — the real number may be 15 times higher.
Looking to the future, smaller family farms from Shasta County’s agricultural legacy have adjusted and diversified beyond crop production to survive and pass on their businesses to younger generations.
As California faces increasingly destructive wildfires, schools should develop more preventative safety measures, experts say.
