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After a career in the wine world â several careers, really â Paul Wagner has taken up murder.
Wagner, who has lectured on wine at Napa Valley College and the Culinary Institute of America and published award-winning books on wine and marketing, is the founder of Balzac Communications, which represents international clients for food, wine, and tourism.Â
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After retiring from Balzac, Wagner turned his talents to mystery, and his debut novel is Danger: Falling Rocks. Â
Surprisingly â perhaps refreshingly â his first story is not set in a wine region. Instead, Wagner transports his readers to another setting that is one of his life-long loves: California s Sierra Nevadas.
Wildfire concerns near Yosemite grow as controlled burns nixed
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Half Dome is barely visible through the smoke from some small burn piles ignited in Ahwahnee Meadow in January 2021.NPS Photo
John Goss is worried about a gap.
As the fire management officer for Sierra National Forest, he’s worried about a lot of things right now: California’s unprecedented dryness, the below average snowpack, the preponderance of dead and drought-weakened trees. These are the indicators that make his neck hair stand up a little, he says.
But then there’s the narrow strip of forestland near the southwestern edge of Yosemite National Park, a mere 5 miles from the prized giant sequoias of the Mariposa Grove.
Updated Old Fire In Stanislaus National Forest
FRESNO, Calif. Mariposa County Resident John “Jack” Welch has agreed to pay $950,000 to settle a claim by the US against him for damages resulting from a 2016 wildfire that burned nearly 100 acres of National Forest land.
According to the settlement, federal investigators concluded that a worn chainsaw was the cause of the fire, it was being used on a windy day and sparked the blaze that spread quickly off Old Yosemite Road in Mariposa County. 100 acres in total were burned including 95 acres of Stanislaus National Forest
The USDA Forest service spent nearly 1.3 million to extinguish the Old Fire, including the use of substantial air assets that helped prevent the fire spread into neighboring properties and the surrou
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