Above: The Middle Fork of the Feather River in Portola, California, looking east from the Gulling Street bridge.
We are grateful to Tim Palmer for certain photos of the Feather River that appear on this website.
Plumas County Board of Supervisors: First 3 Tuedays of every month 10am — speak during open public comment at beginning of meeting for 3 mins on any topic. Link to listen and speak or call: 1-669-900-9128; Meeting ID: 948 7586 7850. Passcode: 261352 Raise your hand: dial *9 Mute/ unmute your line: dial *6 Sign up for agendas by e-mailing KristinaRogers@countyofplumas.com
Plumas County Planning Commission: First and Third Thursday of the Month at 10am Link to Listen and Speak or Call: 1-669-900-9128 Meeting ID: 926 6856 7598 Passcode: 461910 Raise your hand: dial *9 Mute/ unmute your line: dial *6 Sign up for agendas: beckyherrin@countyofplumas.com
Portola City Council: 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month 6pm Link to listen and speak: Or call: 1.669.900.6833; Meeting ID: 358 306 7836. Raise your hand: dial *9 Mute/ unmute your line: dial *6 Sign up for agendas by e-mailing: citymanager@cityofportola.com
Sierra County Board of Supervisors: 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month 9am – get the latest agenda and remote access info here.
Eastern Plumas Heath Care– 4th Thursday of the month 9:30am Link to listen and speak or call: (407) 440-0269 PIN: 720 083 054# Sign up for agendas: jessica.folchi@ephc.org
I will believe always and forever that the unhinged approach and influence of environmentalists in public policy, over regulating and drastically reducing of logging, failing to thin and clean our forests, closing and/or eradicating logging/fire roads and using the excuses of protecting certain fish, spotted owls or salamanders to keep from properly managing our forest lands, played an incredibly significant role in getting us to where we are today. My opinion of course, others are entitled to theirs.
It’s funny how people can look at the same thing and come to opposite conclusions. From our perspective, if we had listened to environmentalists years ago, we would have a higher proportion of old growth trees in forests, which are fire resistant and also absorb large quantities of carbon dioxide. If we had allowed more underburning in our forest over the years- even at some risk to structures- there would be less risk of catastrophic wildfire. From our perspective, fire suppression, clearcut and old growth logging, and climate warming are responsible for the destruction of Greenville and the mega fires we are witnessing. Check out the “Timber Wars” podcast – an in-depth examination of the two sides.