Ventana Wilderness Trail Report

A well-scorched trail

In the absence of serious rain and the law-abiding public, Forest Service BAER crews have remained hard at work on the Ventana Wilderness trails.

State Budget Mess Halting Post-Fire Erosion Control Projects?

Jeff Denham, Still Unable to Face the Facts

More Than $1 Billion Spent Fighting California Fires in 2008

Burned Home, Big Sur

We highly recommend this LA Times report on the high cost of fighting last year’s fires

MLK Day Parade

Big crowds at today’s Martin Luther King Parade in Seaside

Finally: A Genuinely Informative, Fact-Based Article on Fire in the Chaparral Environment

Local luminaries inspect the remains of old-growth chaparral that burned during the first week of the Basin Complex Fire – not much regrowth yet in this spot (1-3-09)

Secret Agent Man

The word is out. Obama plans to make our homeboy Leon Panetta Director of the CIA. The C-I-frickin’ A!

“No Matter How Much Concrete They Pour, All those Seawalls and Houses will End Up in the Ocean”

- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Climatologist Bill Patzert, as quoted in the LA Times

Heavy equipment piles rocks onto the beach in front of Monterey’s Ocean House Condos 12-30-08