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U.S. Forest Service - Sierra National Forest / FacebookA spokesperson for the Garnet Fire burning in Fresno County, says wildland firefighters with tree-climbing expertise who are known as “smokejumpers” were dispatched to the area to try and put out the fire burning in the canopies of the beloved trees. -
US Forest ServiceRoughly 1,000 firefighters are responding to the wildfire and more are expected.
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A folk singer from the hills above Fresno has an answer to a set of questions shaking California to its core. -
For the first time in more than 100 years, the Kern River is headed back to the California Supreme Court where justices may overturn or uphold an order mandating flows be kept in the riverbed through Bakersfield. -
With 7 of its most ambitious rules for cars, trucks and trains repealed, California officials now must find new ways to clean up the nation’s worst air pollution. But officials face growing pushback about affordability and costs. -
The Madre Fire is California’s largest blaze so far this year. It ripped through grasslands after breaking out Wednesday in southeastern San Luis Obispo County. -
New subsidence guidelines from the Department of Water Resources are expected to drop on San Joaquin Valley water managers any day, a prospect that has them both hopeful and worried. -
The Kern County Water Agency filed a motion seeking to remove Kern County Superior Court Judge Gregory Pulskamp from the long-running Kern River lawsuit saying it believes he is prejudiced against the agency.
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The federal government has suspended $450,000 that a CSU Stanislaus program uses to protect San Joaquin Valley kit foxes, and other threatened species. -
Detroit is the pilot city for the Giant Sequoia Filter Forest. The nonprofit Archangel Ancient Tree Archive has donated sequoia saplings that were planted Tuesday by Arboretum Detroit to mark Earth Day. -
There's a meeting on Thursday night to discuss a proposed blast mine on the San Joaquin River. The town hall opens at 5 p.m. at the River Center, near Riverpark, with food trucks and beverages. -
Six conservancies throughout the state will oversee work largely in Southern California and the Sierra Nevada.
