Update: U.S. District Court Judge Dale A. Drozd ruled on Friday, May 28, against three environmental groups trying to block planned fire protection projects in the Sierra and Sequoia National Forests. Drozd denied a preliminary injunction sought by the environmentalists seeking to stop the U.S. Forest Service from activating 31 different projects....
On Heels of Creek Fire, Environmentalists Sue to Stop Sierra Forest Management
A relative of minks and otters, the Pacific fisher is a medium-size carnivorous mammal – about the size of a house cat – that once roamed the West Coast from British Columbia to Southern California. The Trump administration in May of 2020 denied Endangered Species Act protection to the Pacific...
New PBS Film: Loggers, Environmentalists Work Together To Stop Wildfires
Can private industry and environmentalists come together in the name of profit and protecting nature and communities? A new documentary says the answer is a resounding "yes." The film comes in the wake of multiple devastating fires in California, Oregon, and Washington. It does not include the local Creek Fire —...
Austrian Minister to Trump: No, We Do Not Live in Forests
BERLIN — The Austrian government has spoken up to correct President Donald Trump's claim that people in its country live in "forest cities." Trump recently cited Austria and other European countries as models of good forest management that U.S. states like California, which has seen devastating wildfires lately, should learn...
Trump Tweet: No Emergency Funding for California
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is threatening to withhold Federal Emergency Management Agency money to help California cope with wildfires if the state doesn't improve its forest management practices. However, local and state Republicans in California pushed back hard against the president's threat. Assemblyman James Gallagher and state Sen. Jim...
What Fresno County Is Doing to Prevent Deadly Wildfires
It has become an annual tradition of tragedy — wildfires ravaging large swaths of the California landscape, each year shattering records of destruction seemingly set only months prior. Once again wildfires rage in our own backyard, blazing through countless acres of dead and dying vegetation still struggling to recover following...