The 2020 Castle fire killed between 10% and 14% of the Giant Sequoias on Earth; a new coalition is trying to save the other 90%.
A report, released Monday, found between 7,500 to 10,600 large Giant Sequoias were killed during the fire, which was part of the larger SQF Complex fire. The National Parks Service announced a new coalition, composed of six local, federal and tribal agencies to mitigate a similar event.
Fire burns at low intensity in a forest stand. Low to moderate intensity fire is important for the health of giant sequoias and the coniferous ecosystems of the Sierra Nevada. Without it, these ecosystems become overgrown and more vulnerable to tree mortality in drought or catastrophic wildfires.
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Tule River Tribe officials broke ground on a new chapter for Tulare County s only casino this week.
Eagle Mountain Casino will move from the reservation to Porterville after a lengthy process that started in 2016. The new, expanded casino is anticipated to open in fall 2022 and will be located on 40 acres of land near the Porterville Airport.
The new casino will also address a critical water shortage that has hobbled development on reservation land for many years, sparking a moratorium on new homes. The existing casino uses 40,000 gallons of water a day, enough for dozens of new homes.
That was a major reason for relocating the casino off of the reservation, Tule River Tribal Vice Chairman Neil Peyron said. Bringing tribal members back to the reservation has also been a goal of the Tule River Tribe.
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Leticia Aguilar poses for a portrait holding a picture of her grandmother Betty Ann Sigala in her home in Elk Grove.
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For years, Betty Sigala spoke to her family about her death: she didn’t want to be put on a machine and she didn’t want to die alone.
When she was admitted in June to the COVID-19 care ward at her local hospital, her family refused a ventilator. One of her grandsons convinced the nurses to ignore the no visitors rule and let him in.
He set up an iPad so the family could speak with her, then held her hand as she died.
Native American leaders across California said COVID-19 deaths are a shadow on their communities, yet state figures show few American Indian people have died here compared with other states. Leaders and experts fear their community s deaths have been undercounted because of a long history of Native Americans being racially misclassified. And data shows they may be correct.
This unacceptable and damaging practice can bar Native people from getting the help and resources they actually need, they said.
California has the largest number of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States and the largest number of American Indians and Alaska Natives living in urban centers. They are often declared white, Latino or Black on official forms by uninformed hospital workers, according to community leaders and various studies. Sometimes they are simply listed as other.
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