Fatality was a rock climber
By Idyllwild Town Crier
Despite money woes, crime down first half of 2017 Last week, Riverside County Sheriff Stan Sniff visited Idyllwild. During his discussion with the Town Crier regarding the Sheriff’s Department budget and other activities, he mentioned the department’s recently released crime statistics for the first six months of 2017. All reported crime in Riverside County increased…
The popular Idyllwild Summer Concert Series looks as if it will take place this summer, beginning on Thursday, July 6, and running for the customary eight weeks. Ken Dahleen’s longstanding summer entertainment staple looked doubtful for this summer, inasmuch as its many-season home, the Idyllwild Community Center site, would be closed for construction throughout the…
The effects of the 2013 Mountain Fire continue to threaten the local biosystem even though the flames were extinguished long ago. Last month, Debra Nelson, U.S. Forest Service botanist on the San Jacinto Ranger District, led an expedition into Garner Valley’s Johnson Meadow to help protect native plants from the encroachment and invasion of the…
The San Bernardino National Forest is offering a fee-free day on Saturday, Sept. 28, in conjunction with the 20th-annual National Public Lands Day, the nation’s largest, single-day volunteer effort for public lands. No Adventure Pass is required for using standard amenity fee sites that day, whose focus is to instill a sense of shared stewardship…
Fire scientists from Maryland, Colorado and Riverside have collaborated to combine fire modeling with satellite data to develop a new method for predicting wildfire behavior in near real time. The resulting predictions will be more accurate and revised based on the fire’s actual behavior. For years, fire experts have researched and designed models for predicting…
The Cranston Fire Incident Management Team has issued its Initial Damage Report: Twelve buildings were destroyed — seven single-residence structures and five other minor structures. An additional single-residence structure sustained minor damage, and an additional minor structure was not destroyed, but sustained major damage. Three more single-residence structures were affected by the blaze without being considered…
