Letting people know about shelters and Butte Fire Recovery info in general

Hi Folks, How are people spreading the news about shelters, and other important Butte Fire updates? It’s so hard to reach people who have no power or phone. This has been a really big problem since the first day of the fire – when the power went out. Our D2 Community Vision email list -emails are good for people who have Internet access, and even poor one bar cell access usually works for email. Emails are concise and searchable. Please... Read More

What El Nino could mean for California: 5 takeaways*

Flooding a serious concern, snow needed to alleviate drought. Sacramento Bee, October 30  Read More

Place some limits on new groundwater pumping until drought ends*

Former state official makes the case for limiting groundwater pumping in the valley during the drought. Sacramento Bee op-ed, October 25  Read More

Lawsuit filed on behalf of 150 Butte Fire victims

A San Andreas law firm filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Pacific Gas and Electric Co. on behalf of victims of the Butte Fire. Calaveras Enterprise, October 28  Read More

Fuel reduction fire planned west of Bear Valley

U.S. Forest Service to use prescribed fire to improve forest health in North Fork Mokelumne watershed. Union-Democrat, October 28  Read More

CCWD’s Lake Tulloch pipeline extension completed

Enterprise report / October 27, 2015   The Lake Tulloch pipeline extension, a Calaveras County Water District capital project that began construction earlier this month, has been completed. Joel Metzger, community relations manager for the CCWD, said that the pipeline has been in operation for a little over a week, and is undergoing routine testing and operational adjustments. Metzger said the last official cost estimate for the Lake Tulloch... Read More

Biologist: At least 100M trees stressed for water

An exclusive look at a preliminary map produced by biologist Greg Asner, of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Palo Alto, shows where trees in Tuolumne County are more starved for water than others due to the four-year drought (blue means more water in the canopies, while brown means less water). Asner believes there are at least 100 million drought-stressed trees throughout the state. Courtesy Greg Asner. An alarming discovery suggests this... Read More

Forests recover from fires without clear-cutting

The timber industry makes a lot of money clear-cutting our national forests after fires, so it’s no surprise that it takes some liberties with the facts (“Salvage logging is first step to fire recovery,” Viewpoints, Oct. 13). The logging industry claims that where fires burn most intensely, the forest does not naturally regenerate, suggesting that post-fire logging is needed to generate revenue for artificial tree planting. This is a myth. Scientific... Read More

University of California unveils plan to combat climate change, saying it’s ‘moral imperative’

Reducing the human carbon footprint is a “moral imperative,” University of California President Janet Napolitano said Tuesday as she vowed to turn the system’s 10 campuses into a living laboratory for solutions that can be scaled up to state, national and global levels. Read Here  Read More

Paloma Pollinators and CalaverasGROWN are willing to help those who have been impacted by the Butte Fire.

We have worked on a half dozen parcels already and would love to ramp up our efforts, but also need more volunteers to get involved. We have to prioritize the help we are giving. We will start helping those with the following issues first: -your well is damaged and you need help getting it turned back on:only ask us for this if you need the water for living or irrigation now -the fire burned your land so badly that most of the leaves and pine needles... Read More