A winemaker claims Napa County has ordered him to replant high fire-risk trees on the portions of his vineyard that were burned in the 2020 Glass Fire, and to stop building a new, low-disturbance vineyard in their place.
Volunteers and staff with the Watershed Education Network took advantage of the unseasonably warm weather last week to wade into Rattlesnake Creek and collect aquatic insects in the area that once held the dam and its reservoir.
The details of a new report released Thursday found that food grown locally in Montana supports $158 million in retail sales across the state's wider economy, but the state remains challenged in terms of processing what it raises.
The massive composting site diverts thousands of tons of organic waste from the landfill each year. Tree limbs, food waste and even solid material extracted from the city's wastewater are turned into rich, fertile soil through the composting process.
Casey Valencia writes, "With the climate and environmental crises of our day growing in urgency, the need to re-think our ways of living to be more truly sustainable has never been greater. "