
Photo by John Drake

Photo by John Drake

Photo by John Drake

Photo by John Drake
Crash Sunday at Nature Center
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The heat and dry weather have accelerated the damage to local oaks from the invasive Goldspotted oak borer. According to Greg Bratcher, Cal Fire’s unit forester for the San Jacinto Mountains, another 18 trees have been identified as GSOB victims. Of these, 11 will be cut down and six were recommended for spraying. This…
Robert Peek, State Park ranger, reported that park employees Eric Hanson and Diana Santiago, who had been dispatched to help locate two hikers lost on the Pacific Crest Trail near Wellman’s Divide, found the hikers and escorted them back to the Long Valley Ranger Station. The rescue occurred on Thursday, April 4. Rescuers were dispatched…
Applications for grants from the Idyllwild Community Fund are now available online and the completed form should be submitted online by Friday, May 4. A technical assistance workshop is scheduled for 10 a.m. to noon, Thursday, March 15, at the Idyllwild Fire Station’s meeting room. Interested parties and representatives of nonprofit organizations can RSVP to…
Valentine’s Day 2019 will always be remembered, and not just by lovers. The atmospheric river, which passed over Riverside County pouring 8 or more inches of rain, damaged and closed several local highways. At its Feb. 26 meeting, the RC Board of Supervisors approved a resolution declaring a local emergency due to the storm’s widespread…
This is the final of a two-part series that began last week …
Charles Wentz is the new forester for the San Jacinto Ranger District. He arrived in March and within months confronted a major fire in the local forest. Kayanna Warren, his predecessor as district forester, was an Oregonian who went to school in the East. Wentz is from New Jersey and went to school at the…