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Movers and Shakers for June 13
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Wed, 06/09/2021 - 9:22am
Helge Eng joined the Department of Natural Resources as director of the Division of Forestry and Alaska state forester, after a 21-year career at California’s forest management and wildlife firefighting agency. At the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Eng had been deputy director for forestry since 2015. He had previously spent two years as assistant deputy director for resource protection, nine years as state forests program manager, and three years as state forest biometrician for the department. He has served in a variety of membership and leadership roles in forestry, including registered professional forester and member of the Society of American Foresters; member of the California Licensed Foresters Association, chair of the Northern California Society of American Foresters, and state representative on the Society of American Foresters Policy Committee. Eng earned a bachelor’s degre
JACKSON STATE FOREST â Early Monday morning a group of about 50 protesters gathered on a logging road that leads into Jackson Demonstration State Forest near Caspar, planning to barricading the road in the hopes of keeping loggers acting on a Cal Fire timber harvest plan from entering the forest and potentially closing the road themselves. This pre-dawn protest joins the already active tree-sit happening in Jackson, as the latest move against Cal Fireâs timber harvests in the forest, which is owned and operated by the department.
The action is a significant escalation in the struggle over the future of large tracts of redwood ecosystem within the demonstration forest. Protesters say that they are as of now primarily asking for a return to the active discussions, and a pause to the loggin â though due to the decentralized nature of the protests no single set of demands has been proffered and at least some groups are calling for the entire western portion of the Jackson
Billions of dollars spent on fighting California wildfires, but little on prevention [Los Angeles Times :: BC-CALIF-WILDFIRES-PREVENTION:LA]
LOS ANGELES When COVID-19 blew a hole in California’s spending plans last spring, one of the things state budget-cutters took an ax to was wildfire prevention.
A $100 million pilot project to outfit older homes with fire-resistant materials was dropped. Another $165 million earmarked for community protection and wildland fuel-reduction fell to less than $10 million.
A few months later, the August siege of dry lightning turned 2020 into a record-shattering wildfire year. The state’s emergency firefighting costs are expected to hit $1.3 billion, pushing the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s total spending this fiscal year to more than $3 billion.