Review the Community Wildfire Protection Plan for the Yorba Linda Hills Fire Safe Council See what consultant Doug Nickles has developed for the Fire Safe Council, including actions and strategies we can undertake to improve fire safety. Join on Zoom next Thursday, September 10th at 7PM to hear from them directly. **NOTE the new date** Read the announcement.
During this unprecedented time in our nation’s history where our public lands are threatened on numerous fronts, we pause for just today to celebrate the 110th birthday of the National Park Service (NPS). Staff at 433 NPS units across the nation protect our natural, cultural, historical, riparian, trail, and civic heritage with National Parks, National Historic Sites, National Battlefields, National Trails, National Preserves, and more! Happy Birthday NPS!
The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule is a U.S. Forest Service policy that protects nearly 58 million acres of undeveloped national forests and grasslands from new road building and commercial logging. The Roadless Rule stops the creation of new roads in designated inventoried roadless areas. The Roadless Rule restricts timber harvesting, though thinning trees to reduce wildfire risk is still permitted. The Roadless Rule protects hundreds of municipal watersheds that supply drinking water. The Roadless Rule preserves large, uninterrupted habitats … Read More
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Three cheers to the Orange County Transportation Authority, California State Parks, Habitat Restoration Sciences, Inc., and @DudekInc for completing a restoration project near South Ridge in Chino Hills State Park. The restoration work included 11 acres of cactus scrub and is part of the Authority’s Renewed Measure M Environmental Mitigation Program which funds habitat acquisition, restoration, and management to offset freeway impacts.