Biocontrol for Cape Ivy
Michael Doyle reports on using an introduced fly to control Cape Ivy: mdoyle@mcclatchydc.com WASHINGTON Coastal Californians battling pervasive Cape ivy have been waiting years for a helpful fly with a...
View ArticleFly could control invasive plant
Cape Ivy is a big problem in California’s Central Coast forests, including the rare Monterey Pine forest in Cambria. The only herbicide that has been effective is glyphosate, which has been connected...
View ArticleDevelopers bully California Coastal Commission
Banning Ranch oil field Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times A pump jack in the Banning Ranch oil field. Nature hasn’t let go here; prickly pear cactus, grasslands, scrub-coated arroyos and marshes...
View ArticleWarren Buffett Wants To Build The Nation’s Largest Wind Farm
His company, MidAmerican Energy, has pledged $3.6 billion toward the project. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/warren-buffet-wind-energy-farm-iowa_us_570ff429e4b0018f9cb96e8e
View ArticleBrown’s aide, the PUC and his PG&E stock
From the Mercury News, by George Avalos: SAN BRUNO — Gov. Jerry Brown’s top aide — a former PG&E executive — influenced the governor’s decisions for appointments to the powerful and tarnished state...
View ArticleCalifornia’s colorful despite drought
Sara Aminzadeh calls it out for Popular Resistance: As the drought continues, Californians are stepping up to conserve water, and collectively exceeded Gov. Brown’s 25 percent reduction mandate in June...
View ArticleForests heal us
Mark Johanson writes for the BBC: 14 June 2016 Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson wrote that it’s “not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that...
View ArticleGovernor Brown finds ways around CEQA
Steve Lopez writes for the LA Times: Covering the California Coastal Commission is like getting addicted to a soap opera. It’s one dramatic turn after another, power and money are central characters...
View ArticleBeavers add water to dry landscape
Alastair Bland writes for Water Deeply: On California’s central coast, a region that usually receives drenching rainfall or fog for most of the year, some forests are now as arid as a desert. Streams...
View ArticleSummer’s Just Begun, But The Southwestern U.S. Is Already Baking
Parts of California, Nevada and Arizona are under excessive heat warnings through Sunday night. Source: Summer’s Just Begun, But The Southwestern U.S. Is Already Baking
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