Senate Bill 1305 would have required the state to study the feasibility of reintroducing grizzlies. It never got a vote – and the fight isn’t over.
California has a grizzly bear on its flag, on its state seal, and on the jerseys of two university mascots. It has not had a wild grizzly bear inside its borders in more than a hundred years. On August 13, a bill that would have taken the first real step toward changing that died in an Assembly committee room without a single public word said about it.
Starting July 2, guided hikes are available on the Salmon Pass Trail, just south of Fortuna in Humboldt County, every weekend through mid-November.
The Bureau of Land Management is selling firewood permits for a dollar a cord on public land near the Chester Airport, and the wood is already on the ground. It’s from the 2021 Dixie Fire – standing dead and downed trees that need to come out of the forest anyway, and now you can haul them home for next to nothing.
Drive up into the foothills east of Redding, past the last gas station with cell service, and you’ll see them – empty lots where houses used to stand, driveways that lead to nothing but a chimney and a mailbox. Some of those lots have been empty since 2018. Not because the owners gave up. Because nobody would insure what they wanted to rebuild.
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