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KZYX News

KZYX News Department

KZYX reporters and independent journalists cover local news for Mendocino County, California, Monday through Friday in six and a half minute reports. The KZYX News podcast is available for redistribution under CC BY 4.0, or the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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Landowners frustrated by lack of control over tree...

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2021/09/01

September 1, 2021 — In mid-August, Katharine Cole drove out to her pasture in Hopland through a thick haze from the Dixie Fire. Earlier this summer, she lost 20-25 trees to PG&E’s vegetation management program, which the California Public Utilities Commission approved as a strategy to prevent catastrophic wildfire. “Basically, I’m looking at a war zone here,” she said, pulling over to survey the felled trees; “that was beautiful oak and madrone and manzanita.” Cole was especially

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Live Performance Returns to Mendocino College

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2021/08/31

August 31, 2021-- Good news! The performing arts are back. Over the weekend. Mendocino college students, alumni and guest artists returned to the outdoor stage at the Ukiah campus to showcase dance, drama and music before a live audience. The celebratory performance, called “Live in the Oaks,” was inspired and produced by Mendocino college dance director, Eryn Schon-Brunner. “It's been quiet, or “dark,” at the college for the last 18 months,” she said. “We haven't done any live

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Mendocino supervisors OK using PG&E funds to truck...

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2021/08/28

From Mendocino County Public Broadcasting, this is the KZYX News for Friday, Aug. 27. I’m Sonia Waraich.The drought situation on the coast is getting worse. Elk, Irish Beach, Mendocino Unified School District and Westport said they will no longer sell water to haulers supplying homes and businesses in Mendocino, which rely on that water. On Tuesday, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors held a special meeting to talk about how to get water flowing from inland to the coast as soon as

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Local Doctors Sound the Alarm on Covid

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2021/08/28

August 27, 2021 By Alicia Bales Today, as the surge in Covid 19 infections has filled our hospitals to capacity, and reports of deaths from the virus are becoming a daily occurrence, dozens of local doctors and medical providers have signed a letter addressed to the community of Mendocino County asking for help. The letter describes the dire conditions healthcare providers are seeing at work every day: emergency departments overflowing, full ICUs, and a surge of sick young patients with

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Grain Project promotes crop diversity as key to food...

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2021/08/26

August 26, 2021 — With climate change, the current drought conditions could be here to stay. That means the ability to experiment with unfamiliar crops could be key for local farmers. Rachel Britten is the owner of the Mendocino Grain Project, which provides a variety of services to small grain farmers in the northern California region. They’ll harvest crops, clean them, and distribute them, so each farmer doesn’t have to invest in machines for something they may only want to plant every

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Ranchers adapting to drought conditions

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2021/08/26

August 25, 2021 — The drought, following covid, market forces, and wildfire, is just one of many challenges facing local farmers. We’ll hear from two members of multi-generational families raising cattle and hay in Potter Valley about the choices they’re making and the future they face.

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New buoy at Caspar Cove fills crucial data gap

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2021/08/24

From Mendocino County Public Broadcasting, this is the KZYX News for Tuesday, Aug. 24. I’m Sonia Waraich.Caspar Cove is a beach just south of Fort Bragg. Early Sunday morning, about a dozen people were kayaking, hanging out with their families, playing fetch with their dogs and doing everything else you can imagine people doing at the beach on a weekend. Nobody seemed to be paying any attention to the new fixtures at the center of the cove. A couple hundred yards off shore, you can spot

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County ends contract with Wildlife Services

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2021/08/23

August 23, 2021 -- Jon Spitz, member of the Mendocino Non-Lethal Wildlife Management Alliance talks about their recent victory in convincing the County to end their contract with the USDA Wildlife Services. He discusses the history of their grass roots fight and explains how exclusion wild life management techniques work. Currently Mendocino County does not have an exclusion contractor. In the interim, Spitz recommends calling the Sonoma County Exclusion Program Hotline for advice in

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Fire Safe Council hardening homes

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2021/08/20

August 20, 2021 — Hundreds of thousands of acres are on fire in the state of California. There’s been one or more fires every day in Mendocino County this week, and the Cache Fire has destroyed dozens of homes in Lake County. The topic of how to make a home resistant to fire, or hardening it, is timely. On Wednesday morning, Scott Cratty stood in a light rain of ash from the Dixie or the Monument or maybe the Caldor fire, overlooking what’s left of Lake Mendocino. Cratty is the Executive

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Cities enter into mutual aid agreements to address...

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2021/08/19

From Mendocino County Public Broadcasting, this is the KZYX News for Monday, Aug. 16. I’m Sonia Waraich.Last month was the hottest July ever recorded on Earth and in Mendocino County, according to NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,. The federal agency is also predicting there’s going to be lower than average rainfall in Mendocino for at least the next six months so the drought’s not going anywhere.One of the groups working on addressing the drought locally is the

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Redwood Valley Grange gets $250k in settlement funds

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2021/08/19

August 19, 2021 — The consent calendar and CEO report from this week’s Board of Supervisors meeting were full of big news. Earlier this month, the Board drew up an allocation plan on how to spend the one-time $22 million PG&E settlement fund for the 2017 wildfires, which started in Potter Valley and devastated neighboring Redwood Valley. Much of the money went to items the supervisors thought would ease the burden of the next disaster, but many Redwood Valley community members felt

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Delta surge: numbers six times higher than just one...

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2021/08/18

August 18, 2021 — Mendocino county is experiencing a fourth surge of covid cases, with a peak over the weekend and a record 95 cases on Thursday. County Public Health reported the death of a 49-year-old man in Ukiah yesterday afternoon, bringing the death toll to 56. Five of those deaths have been reported this month. Deputy Public Health Officer Dr. Noemi Doohan said that full genome testing is not widely available, but she’s confident it’s the delta variant that’s sweeping through the

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Landowner "in shock" by extent of tree removal

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2021/08/18

August 17, 2021 — Paul Putter’s homestead used to be nestled in a grove of hardwoods and conifers. It was shady and cool, and he used to jog on a trail beneath the canopy. But now, with PG&E’s enhanced vegetation management program, crews of contractors are taking down any tree the company thinks could fall on a power line and start another massive fire. On August 7, kzyx was on site to see crews feeding dozens of smaller trees into a chipper and pouring large ones into a big red

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Protective vegetation unprotected

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2021/08/14

August 13, 2021 — With fire season and drought well underway, PG&E is hard at work on the 1800 miles of enhanced vegetation management it plans to finish by the end of the year. The company is responding to wildfire threat by limbing and cutting down trees and any other vegetation its arborists deem present a possible danger to its infrastructure. Cathy Monroe of Redwood Valley is a long-time member of the California Native Plant Society and an original member of the Mendocino County

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A few more truckloads of water for town of Mendocino

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2021/08/12

Aug 12, 2021 — The plight of the town of Mendocino has captured national attention. Wells are going dry just as the local tourist trade i s struggling to emerge from the pandemic. Fort Bragg can no longer sell water to other towns. A plan that called for the skunk train to bring water to the coast from Willits fell through. Now it looks like the most feasible option is for truckers to bring water over the hill from Ukiah, which Supervisor Glenn McGourty, who is on the drought ad hoc

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Studies in JDSF include dead standing trees, Imazapyr

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2021/08/12

August 11, 2021 — The Jackson Demonstration State Forest is the largest of eight so-called working forests managed by CalFire for a number of purposes, including timber production. This involves experiments to figure out how to replace hardwoods with conifers, especially the high-value redwoods that were logged so extensively for much of the 19th and 20th centuries. But the current Timber Harvest Plans in the state forest are hotly contested by a coalition of tribal groups and environmental

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Activists shut down Jackson Advisory Group meeting

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2021/08/11

From Mendocino county Public Broadcasting this the KZYX News for Monday, Aug. 9. I’m Sonia Waraich, a Report for America corps member.The Jackson Advisory Group meeting last Tuesday started like just about any other local government meeting.That’s George Hollister. He’s a small forest land owner and chair of the group known as the JAG. The advisory group was formed just over a decade ago in 2008 to offer recommendations to CAL FIRE and the Board of Forestry about how best to manage Jackson

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Memories of key budget meeting differ

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2021/08/06

August 6, 2021 — The Board of Supervisors agreed to hire outside counsel for Sheriff Matt Kendall, though who exactly will advocate for the sheriff has yet to be decided. And the sheriff and the CEO’s office had two distinctly different memories of a key meeting about the sheriff’s budget.

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PG&E settlement funds close to being finalized

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2021/08/05

August 5, 2021 — The Board of Supervisors allocated PG&E settlement funds this week, agreeing to fund the fire safe council for five years, widen East Side Potter Valley Road, and set aside three million for drought relief or other emergency needs. And the water shortage is growing ever more dire for the town of Mendocino, with no state or federal help in sight. With no water forthcoming from the City of Fort Bragg, or from the Willits aquifer by way of the skunk train, the town is

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Ukiah mayor encourages Latino leadership

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2021/08/05

August 4, 2021 — With the Latino population in Mendocino County growing, local Latino leaders are strategizing how to bring business owners in to fund scholarships and initiatives. And with the delta variant surging, Ukiah mayor Juan Orozco says he thinks he’s cracked the code when it comes to the best way to get public health messages out to the Spanish-speaking community: short, informative videos on social media. Orozco is a member of UVA, Ukiah Vecinos en Accion, a local group that’s

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