Posting: Difference between revisions

[https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/scenic-forest-trails-santa-cruz/3884608/ by Joe Rosato 4/6/25 NBC BAY AREA]

  Over the last three years, a mix of professional and volunteer labor has worked to carve a network of nine miles of trail through dense woods and steep slopes. When the project opens this summer, it will include nine miles of trails, with nine more to come.

===== Trump EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives =====

[https://apnews.com/article/epa-zeldin-pollution-rules-analysis-savings-health-0a289aec2507ed38d386680afdd0ea45 by Seth Borenstein 6/6/25 AP]

  When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced a wide-ranging rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would put a “dagger through the heart of climate-change religion” and introduce a “Golden Age” for the American economy.

===== Why reforming California’s bedrock environmental law is good for the environment =====

[https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/06/ceqa-environmental-law-reform/ by Nick Yost and Daniel Yost 5/6/25 CALL MATTERS]

  CEQA, as it’s colloquially known, embodies the proposition that you should “look before you leap” on issues that could have negative environmental or public health impacts. The law’s core legal principle holds that decisionmakers should know the environmental consequences of their actions before taking them.

===== In California’s largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River =====

[https://grist.org/indigenous/in-californias-largest-landback-deal-the-yurok-tribe-reclaims-sacred-land-around-the-klamath-river/ by Anita Hofschneider 5/6/25 Grist]

  More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California, including the lower Blue Creek watershed, have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history.

===== Regen agriculture outperforms conventional farming across key metrics =====