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Farm Bills Pass Both House and Senate

The House and Senate Agriculture Committees approved their versions of a Farm Bill this week that include new policies and programs that will help conserve and sustain America’s family-owned forests and the clean air and water, wildlife habitat, rural jobs, and recreational benefits that every American enjoys from these lands. As the largest forest ownership…

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Calforests partners with CALFIRE to prepare for a monstrous wildfire season

California Declares May 6-12 “Wildfire Awareness Week” For Immediate Release May 6, 2013   (Sacramento) – Every spring, wildfire like an unstoppable monster runs through our hills and mountains consuming everything in its path until late fall. These wildfires can burn up waterways, wildlife habitat and homes in no time.  This year, there have been…

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State moves closer to better fire protection policy

By: Calforests Staff California wildfire season is well ahead of schedule this year given the unusually dry winter followed almost immediately by hot temperatures. These conditions along with the growing vulnerability to severe wildfire due to unmanaged, over-stocked forests highlights the need for action to help California protect our environment, homes and residents from this…

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Innovate North State announce SPI as a Top 100 Northern California Manufacturers

By: Anderson Valley Post staff Innovate North State announced today the 100 businesses on its inaugural “Nor-Cal 100” – a group of manufacturers located in Northern California that are making tremendous economic contributions. Included on the list are Sierra Pacific Industries and the Vorwood Company, both of Anderson, said Jon Gregory, managing director of Innovate North…

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Supreme Court Upholds Silvicultural NPDES Exemption

  On March 20th 2013,   the Supreme Court issued its opinion reversing the 9th Circuit in Decker v. NEDC upholding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) silvicultural exemption from point source discharge (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System [NPDES]) permits, ruling it is not associated with an industrial activity.  The Court held, 7-1, that the pre-amendment version of…

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Senator Hill to Chair Environmental Quality Committee

Jerry Hill chosen to lead environmental committee Sacramento Bee March 5, 2013 Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, has tapped Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, to fill former senatorMichael Rubio’s place atop a key environmental committee. Steinberg announced in a statement that he was nominating Hill to chair the Committee on Environmental Quality. It will be an influential…

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Wieckowski, Bigelow Bipartisan Bill Reduces Wildfire Threat

By allowing more forest thinning, fuel for devastating wildfires would be reduced Sacramento – A bill by Assemblymembers Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont) and Frank Bigelow (R-O’Neals) would reduce the fuel available for devastating wildfires in California by improving forest thinning projects.  From 2005-2011, more than 832,000 acres of forest land burned in wildfires, costing the state…

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Governor Brown’s State of the State Address gives timber industry recognition

News Article: January 29, 2013 During the State of the State Address Governor Brown talking about the biggest successes this last year in his state of the state address: “You did great things: Your 1/3 renewable energy mandate; the reform of workers compensation; the reorganization of state government; protecting our forests and strengthening our timber…

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Collaboration and Compromise Lead to Signing of AB 1492

Forestry Reform Package is a lifeline for California’s timber industry (Sacramento) – Today, Governor Jerry Brown signed the most significant piece of California forest legislation in decades. AB 1492 provides reforms that will help to maintain and grow in-state lumber jobs while maintaining California’s high environmental standards. Legislators from both sides of the aisle worked…

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