“Water consumption is down. People here are environmentally sensitive,” General Manager Tom Lynch last week told John Cook and Warren Monroe, the directors who serve as members of the Rules and Regulations Committee of the Idyllwild Water District. However, as water consumption declines, so do the district’s revenues, lamented the directors and particularly Chief Finance…

  Jennifer Gee, the new director of the University of California James Reserve north of Idyllwild, is, by nature, an explorer, adventurer and trailblazer. She credits growing up in the Pacific Northwest with her love of the outdoors and her eventual decision to become a field biologist.   “I started birding when I was nine….