A well-scorched trail
In the absence of serious rain and the law-abiding public, Forest Service BAER crews have remained hard at work on the Ventana Wilderness trails. Read the rest of this entry »
Ventana Wilderness Trail Report
January 30, 2009
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State Budget Mess Halting Post-Fire Erosion Control Projects?
January 23, 2009The San Francisco Chronicle has reported that among the thousands of projects stopped by the budget roadblock in Sacramento are “a dozen projects to prevent erosion after last year’s wildfires along the Carmel and Big Sur watersheds …” We’re not sure which projects they’re referring to, but the bottom line is this: the state budget crisis is now creating real problems for all of us – and the situation is becoming more and more serious every day. Read the rest of this entry »
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More Than $1 Billion Spent Fighting California Fires in 2008
January 21, 2009
Burned Home, Big Sur
We highly recommend this LA Times report on the high cost of fighting last year’s fires Read the rest of this entry »
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MLK Day Parade
January 19, 2009
Big crowds at today’s Martin Luther King Parade in Seaside Read the rest of this entry »
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Finally: A Genuinely Informative, Fact-Based Article on Fire in the Chaparral Environment
January 6, 2009
Local luminaries inspect the remains of old-growth chaparral that burned during the first week of the Basin Complex Fire – not much regrowth yet in this spot (1-3-09) Read the rest of this entry »
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“No Matter How Much Concrete They Pour, All those Seawalls and Houses will End Up in the Ocean”
January 4, 2009– NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Climatologist Bill Patzert, as quoted in the LA Times
Heavy equipment piles rocks onto the beach in front of Monterey’s Ocean House Condos 12-30-08 Read the rest of this entry »
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