Michael Freitas caught this footage on his home’s surveillance camera over the weekend. Freitas lives on near Country Club and Lake Drive, off Toll Gate Road, a heavily residential neighborhood.
Mountain Lion spotted off Toll Gate
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Michael Freitas caught this footage on his home’s surveillance camera over the weekend. Freitas lives on near Country Club and Lake Drive, off Toll Gate Road, a heavily residential neighborhood.
Welcome Kayanna Warren to the Hill. She is the new forester for the San Jacinto Ranger District. Warren is a 2013 graduate of Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She has been an ecology and biology geek since grade school, she said proudly. “We [she and her parents] lived 25 miles from Portland…
San Bernardino National Forest officials are seeking public comments on proposed changes to two standard amenity recreation fee areas — Black Mountain and Thomas Mountain — within the San Jacinto Ranger District, and six other areas within the SBNF — the Arrowhead, Barton Flats, Big Bear North, Big Bear South, Falls and Lytle Creek. Within…
Lynette Short, CalFire Unit Forester, briefed on fuels reduction. CalFire’s main local effort this year will be the Redhill Vegetation Management Project. It is a 300-foot-wide shaded fuel break, starting in Pine Cove around the northwest, west and southwest sides. CalFire will treat dispersed plots extending down to the Nature Center. Over previous years, nearly…
In the second week of the second year of our Membership model, Membership renewals are pouring in. We already have 98 renewed, second-year Members. (They, along with six new members, are a part of our currently 658 active Members.) Thanks to you all! You are demonstrating that our readers want and deserve a continued community…
Idyllwild voters will have the opportunity to decide whether to raise the parcel fees for standby emergency medical services this fall. At their July 26 meeting, commissioners for the Idyllwild Fire Protection District, in the absence of Larry Donahoo, unanimously approved a resolution to double the current $65 per-parcel unit fee to a $130 fee…
… And a drumroll, please! The Town Crier is proud to announce the 2019 Ernie Maxwell Community Spirit Award nominees. They are Joe and Yong Neu, Janice Lyle, and Phyllis Mueller. Please keep the following in mind when you vote: The individual should have demonstrated a tangible, perhaps physical, effect on the community. The honor…