Last Monday, a rally at the Capitol steps led by Assembly Member Adam Gray, led the opposition to the state plan to divert 40 percent of flows from the Tuolumne, Merced, and Stanislaus rivers despite dozens of scientific studies showing there are alternatives that would do more to help fish populations     The “Stop […]

By Mackenzie Myers Amid a record-setting fire season for California, Cal Fire awarded a $27.5 million grant last week to agencies throughout the region for projects to prevent catastrophic fires. Announced Tuesday, Aug. 7 in a joint press release from local natural resource agencies, the grant will go to El Dorado, Placer, Nevada and Sierra counties. […]

By:  Barbara Balen, President, Mountain Counties Water Resources Association (MCWRA) & President, Tuolumne Utilities District (TUD) There’s an old saying – if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.  When it comes to water conservation, Tuolumne County’s water has been on the State’s menu all along.   No matter how much we conserve, dry […]

July 24, 2018  |  Written by Jared S. Mueller Several members of the House of Representatives have proposed bills seeking to reform the Endangered Species Act (ESA) before the end of this legislative session.  Enacted 45 years ago, the ESA was last amended in 1988.  With several targeted measures, the House Western Caucus’s “Bipartisan ESA Modernization Package” […]