The Commission approved staff’s recommendation to delegate authority to the Director to approve sale of merchantable timber at Riverside State Park; the motion included direction that cash proceeds be reinvested into natural resource stewardship and interpretive activities. Motion was moved by Sophia Danenberg and approved unanimously.

County advisory members were told staff are implementing roadside hazard-tree removals in a 34,000-acre area, reducing Greensdale from ~4,300 to ~2,200 acres for active management, and planning salvage projects that could yield 5,000–7,000 board feet with an early-November target start.

Sourcing appropriate plant material for direct seeding is fundamental to the sustainable restoration of degraded ecosystems. The Pre-Varietal Germplasm program offers a series of seed certification st...

Environmental groups see the spawning of around 100 newly hatched trout in Arroyo Hondo Creek as a critical milestone in efforts to protect and restore Southern California steelhead populations.

The Dixie fire burned steep hillslopes in the northern Sierra Nevada California during the summer of 2021 and was followed by two significant storm events in October 2021 and June 2022. These events h...