Green Blog

Working as an irrigator seems straightforward at first: if you're not watering plants by hand, you're building and managing systems that can do the watering.

Learn the how, where and why fire is used to manage the natural landscape at the Central Coast Good Fire Fair on Saturday, Oct. 5. The fair is free and open to the public from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in Felton in Santa Cruz County.

California water-rights holders are required by state law to measure and report the water they divert from surface streams.

As the climate crisis fuels more high-severity wildfires, many forests adapted to bounce back from frequent but less-intense fires are struggling to recover quickly.

Priorities include removing objects within five feet of a house, upgrading vents Wildfire losses cost taxpayers and communities hundreds of billions of dollars each year, and preparing communities before a disaster occurs is the best way to avoid damage to homes and neighborhoods.