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Living with Fire for Forest Health in the Sierra Nevada
During the past decade western forest scientists have been delivering the message that fire suppression has contributed to the decrease in forest health. Even before the aboriginal occupants of our region began using fire as a vegetation management tool, Western forested ecosystems have evolved with wildfire as a mechanism of...
BEC Byline: California Forests
This article first appeared in May 2001. It is posted here for archival purposes. Some material on this page may be dated.[In 2000] Sierra Pacific Industries announced its intention to clearcut over one million acres of Sierra Nevada forestland. Clearcutting is going as planned and the upper watersheds of Deer, Chico, and Butte...
International Negotiations Collapse Due To U.S. Intransigence
Climate Change and Forestsby Jim BrobeckExtreme weather has ripped across the United Kingdom and Western Europe causing billions of dollars of damage and the death of at least 11 people. The Pacific Ocean could lose the majority of its coral reefs by the end of the century devastating the region’s fishing and tourism...
Bidwell Wildlife Rehabilitation Center
A Little HistoryEstablished and incorporated as Bidwell Nature Center/Bidwell Wildlife Rehabilitation Center (BWRC) in 1974, the group has operated non-stop caring for close to one thousand animals each year. As the rehabilitation portion of our mission expanded, so did the demand on our volunteers and resources, both of which were...
Jonesville Logging Project Rejected on the Headwaters Of Butte Creek
The Almanor District on the Lassen National Forest proposed to log 10.5 million board feet of timber and 5 million feet of biomass on 30% of the 16,580 acre Jonesville Management area, the headwaters area of Butte Creek from Jones Creek to Southeast of Cirby Meadow. This included 1,312 acres of late seral forest (old growth forest),...
Conservation Is Patriotic
by Timothy Hermach, founder and president Native Forest CouncilSeptember 11, 2001. Each of us will remember it in our own way. But all of us will share memories of the initial disbelief, giving way to anger and fear, then sadness for those we lost.I was at the office...
Bidwell Park Treasures
by Tim ManolisBidwell Park is an excellent place to view a wide variety of dragonflies and damselflies (Family Odonata). Of about 108 species in this group known to occur in California, 66 species are found in Butte County and at least 45 of these have been recorded in Bidwell...
What is the Publicly-Supported Endangered Species Act?
From the National Wildlife Federation.The Endangered Species Act is a federal law initially passed by Congress in 1973 in an attempt to counteract the alarming rate of species extinction. The Act provides a means of conserving plants and animals that are currently in danger of...
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While the local daily paper wails in the wilderness that endangered species are the causeof every economic malady and the lack of a new high school (Enterprise Record editorial2/4/01), the planet is facing the greatest wave of species extinction worldwide since thedisappearance of the dinosaurs. This loss is destroying the genetic...
Earth Is the Ark
While the local daily paper wails in the wilderness that endangered species are the causeof every economic malady and the lack of a new high school (Enterprise Record editorial2/4/01), the planet is facing the greatest wave of species extinction worldwide since thedisappearance of the dinosaurs. This loss is destroying the...
Happy Spring!
Back in October, a severely injured male red-tailed hawk was found on a ranch in Delhi. Apparently he had flown into an electrical transformer and was badly burned. The rancher called around for advice and found that the Stanislaus Wildlife Center was willing to try to rehabilitate him.As...
