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Andy Smith, U.S. Forest Service natural resource manager, presents Steve Schwitters, Jana Desrocher and Tom Clem with an award for keeping the trails of the San Jacinto Mountains clear. Photo by Barbara Reese


A Pine Cove man suffered 2nd degree burns to his upper body from a water heater explosion and was flown to a local hospital. The man was a walk-in to Cal Fire’s Pine Cove Station 23 Saturday at 11:39 a.m. No further information was available.
Last week, state officials again urged residents to get a flu shot. While influenza activity has been low so far this flu season, it began to rise at the end of December. While not widespread in California, the number of cases has been growing. “Many California counties, and other states, are reporting patients who are…
During its March 27 meeting, the Idyllwild Fire Protection District commission set a workshop next month to look at revenue sources, approved two new polices and revised an existing policy. Reporting for the commission’s ad-hoc committee on parcel fees and a possible tax measure, Commissioner Henry Sawicki provided his colleagues with a brief summary of…
On Dec. 15, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved its proposed 2022 Scoping Plan, which identifies policies and actions needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the next 20 years. An 85% reduction is the goal to achieve carbon neutrality in 2045. Only three weeks later, on Jan. 4, the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO)…
By Becky and Jack Clark Co-publishers Along with a Membership application, we received a short note from Peter Buerkle describing himself as “your longest continuous subscriber – 1946,” the year of the TC’s first issue. That would seem to make him quite young when he subscribed. But perhaps he is nearly a nonagenarian, and if…
More wildfires and greater areas burned is the forecast for the future as climate change continues. Recently, a new study published in the “Environmental Research Letters” expects fire severity to decrease. Fire severity is the extent of change in the local vegetation one year after a major fire. For example, if brushes and shrubs took…