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Month: October 2020

Jodi Frediani PG&E cutting redwoods Fire Letters Local News 

PG&E Tree Removal without Approval

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October 29, 2020  Dear Members of the Board of Supervisors, County Counsel Heath and County Administrative Officer Palacios, As your constituents and residents of Santa Cruz County and the San Lorenzo Valley and Bonny Doon, we are requesting that the Board more closely examine PG&E’s actions following the CZU fires. We are concerned that PG&E is using the fire aftermath… Read More
Boomer Boomeria Bonny Doon Community Fire Local News 

Boomeria – The King Always Wins

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Boomeria in Bonny Doon Suffers a Scorching By Julie Horner In Bonny Doon the Warnella Fire and the Waddell Fire combined to make a firestorm. The fire climbed up into the Santa Cruz Mountains burning most everything in its path. Boomeria, built by the Boomers starting around 1957, survived by the heroic efforts of friends and neighbors. A colorful Renaissance… Read More
Love 22 2020 Presidential candidate Election Valley People 

Love 22 – Former Lompico Resident’s Presidential Write-In Campaign

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By Chris Vaughan Among the notable distinctions attending this month’s presidential election, former Santa Cruz mountains resident Love 22’s record-setting eleventh consecutive write-in candidacy likely falls low on the recognition meter, but is perhaps the least likely to be duplicated any time soon. “Pat Paulsen and Harold Stassen gave it a good run but they can’t run any more because… Read More
CZU Fire Drone Imagery Fire Local News 

Sheriff’s Dept Releases Before & After Drone Imagery #CZUFire

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The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Team has released before and after drone imagery of the CZU Lightning Complex Fire burn zone. Multiple Bay Area law enforcement agencies contributed to the mapping project. View the Before/After Swipe Map here: https://arcg.is/1OWbb5 CZU Fire 360 Panoramas Map: https://arcg.is/05GDab Read More
MC Dwyer Boulder Creek CZU Lightning Complex Fire Column: MC Dwyer Columns Fire Local News Real Estate 

An Impossible Reality

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By M.C. Dwyer On August 16th, we woke up at 3:00 am and went outside to watch a bizarre dry summer lightning storm. As lightning zig zagged across the skies overhead, booming thunder quickly followed. We went back to sleep. By Tuesday afternoon, Boulder Creek was shrouded in smoke and stifling hot. The evacuation warning for our home came at 8:00… Read More
Jane Mulcaster Big Basin Redwoods State Park Columns Environment 

Why Trees (and Human Spirits) Endure

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Nature builds resilience into our bark  By Jane Mulcaster Girl Scouts Meg Mulcaster, Narya Bower, and Maggie Fry from Campbell troop 62301 explore fire-scarred redwoods outside the Big Basin Visitor Center in April, 2018.  As the sun sank behind the trees at the upper campground in Big Basin State Park in early April 2018, the mercury dipped into the 40s,… Read More
Felton Fire Debris Flow Task Force Fire Local News 

Debris Flow Task Force in Motion

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A task force has been assembled and discussions have begun regarding the hazards of debris flows in the Santa Cruz Mountains CZU Lightning Complex burn zones. Winter rains are expected to trigger flooding and the accumulation of rock, earth, and tree debris can flow rapidly causing further damage to properties already impacted by the fire. Felton Fire Chief Bob Gray… Read More
Suzy Norris Bonny Doon California Bonny Doon Community Local News 

Home

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By Suzy Norris We’re home. Our birds are ecstatic as they burst out of that little confining cage and fly and fly, singing and twirling around their living room…joyjoyjoy! Doggies are not quite so sure…kinda scared and clingy, but picking up steam as we wander around exploring our new world of ash and burned leaf cinders, old and young smoke,… Read More