MAST agencies brief on fire breaks, the landscape scale projects protecting mountain communities
By David Jerome
One of the main ways that MAST members keep our communities safe are fuel reduction projects, also known as Vegetation Management Projects. At the March meeting, Chick Wiesbart of Mountain Community Patrol made the point that the community does not know how well they are being protected. The network of fuel breaks that surround the…
At 6:18 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, a silver 2003 Honda Civic, driven by Jillian Sipes 33, of La Quinta, was traveling east on Highway 74 when Sipes made an unsafe turning movement and collided with the mountainside just west of the Santa Rosa Truck Trail. She was transport by American Medical Response to Desert Regional…
The inclement weather has passed. The sun is shining and the National Weather Service forecasts temperatures in the 70s tomorrow. Only .29 inches of rain fell yesterday, despite raining nearly all day. The total since July 1 is 9.53 inches.
Living Free’s request for a revised conditional use permit (CUP) and rezoning was unanimously approved by the Riverside County Planning Commission at its Dec. 1 meeting. After its approval, Commission Chair Carl Bruce Shaffer announced that the proposal still must garner approval from the board of supervisors.In 2016, Living Free went to the commission for…
Editor’s note: Each year, the Town Crier reports the information below for Fern Valley Water District, Idyllwild Fire Protection District, Idyllwild WD and Pine Cove WD. FVWD was in the March 17 issue. The remaining districts will run over the next three weeks. Each district provides the information to the state Controller General who posts…
By U.S. Forest ServiceContributed A team of scientists from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S. Forest Service, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reintroduced a group of 253 endangered Mountain Yellow-legged Frogs to a remote site on the San Bernardino National Forest…
70 years ago – 1950 Trout season opened and eager anglers stood shoulder to shoulder at Lake Fulmor. 65 years ago – 1955 A two-man snowshoe party from the U.S. Forest Service hiked to Tahquitz Valley on Tuesday to measure the pack on the course. They found an average 6-inch depth, containing 39.1 % moisture,…
