3+ hour, 56+ min ago   (186+ words) More than 130 planned projects at national parks, together worth over $25 million, were quietly rejected by the Interior Department last month, and California parks took some of the biggest hits. The projects were partnership agreements with outside nonprofits and universities, the…...

8+ hour, 49+ min ago   (261+ words) activenorcal.com 1533:063017:86F:0000::2E[135:0095]G[008:0x0006] President Trump's September 4 executive order asking federal officials to consider stripping Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves landed hard in Northern California, where 13 packs now roam and ranchers in Siskiyou, Sierra, and Plumas counties have spent…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (266+ words) Conservationists are calling it something that has never happened in Yosemite’s history: a piece of the national park handed over to a private developer. The Trump administration is weighing a land swap that would transfer a quarter mile strip inside…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (244+ words) For the first time in more than 150 years, a piece of Yosemite National Park could wind up in private hands, and the deal is being worked out largely behind closed doors. The National Park Service has spent over a year…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (223+ words) Active NorCal For much of the 20th century, American wildfires came with a deadline Under a policy adopted in 1933, the US Forest Service required that every wildland fire be put out by 10 a.m the day after it was spotted Now, nearly…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (150+ words) Some of Northern California’s wildest backcountry could soon be open to chainsaws and bulldozers. The U.S. Forest Service formally proposed scrapping the Roadless Rule this week, a 2001 regulation that has kept road building and commercial logging out of nearly 45 million…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (229+ words) The last time most of NorCal saw Ryder Williams, he was disappearing under crashing waves at Seabright State Beach with an iron grip on a drowning boy. On Monday, the 16-year-old lifeguard was sitting in the Oval Office. President Trump…...