Staffers hope the restoration efforts at Elkhorn Slough will help quell opposition to the removal of the invasive Australian trees that to some have become a state icon.
Staffers hope the restoration efforts at Elkhorn Slough will help quell opposition to the removal of the invasive Australian trees that to some have become a state icon.
“Over 90% of people really feel that the eucalyptus has gotten out of control, and they are a danger to the native environment and plants and animals,” said Church, whose district covers the north end of the county. “This is not just a fire protection issue, but it’s actually an environmental issue.”
Reports of spiders falling from the sky are flooding out of California. Locals along the Central Coast are seeing webs with baby spiders floating through the area and sticking onto buildings.
In 1883, two years after he created Hotel Del Monte, railroad baron Charles Crocker facilitated the construction, near Cachagua, of the so-called Chinese Dam – the Carmel River’s first –