With a $ 10,000 grant from the Northern and Central California Region of the Wells Fargo Foundation, NatureBridge is proud to offer scholarship funding for high school students in California’s Central Valley for a two-week backcountry science expedition in Yosemite National Park. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/nbscholarships13.htm
Read More »NatureBridge Receives $75,000 Grant from Wells Fargo for Scholarships for California’s Central Valley Youth
With a $ 75,000 grant for the Environmental Education and Stewardship for Underserved Central Valley Youth project, NatureBridge is proud to announce the award of scholarship funding from the Northern and Central California Region of the Wells Fargo Foundation. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/naturebridge-receives-grant-from-wells-fargo-for-scholarships-for-californias-central-valley-youth.htm
Read More »NatureBridge Announces Wells Fargo Scholarships for Teens in California’s Central Valley
With a grant from the Northern and Central California Region of the Wells Fargo Foundation, NatureBridge is proud to offer scholarship funding for high school students in California’s Central Valley for a two-week backcountry science expedition in Yosemite National Park. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/naturebridge-announces-wells-fargo-scholarships-for-teens-in-californias-central-valley.htm
Read More »State Senator Melissa Hurtado On Drought And Repairing California’s Water Infrastructure
When the one working well serving the unincorporated community of Teviston in Tulare County stopped working last month, the roughly 1,000 people who live there were left without running water in the middle of a drought. As the community waits for bureaucracy to clear the way for the well to …
Read More »Journalist Steven Greenhut On California’s Drought Emergency Declaration
Earlier this week, Gov. Gavin Newsom extended the drought emergency declaration to much of California, including the San Joaquin Valley. To better understand the significance of that decision, Valley Edition Host Kathleen Schock spoke to journalist Steven Greenhut. He is a columnist for the Orange County Register and the author …
Read More »New York Times Journalist Explores The Effect Of Climate Change On California’s Iconic Trees
Joshua trees, redwoods and giant sequoias are some of California’s most iconic trees, and all three have been deeply impacted by climate change and wildfires. John Branch, a Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times journalist, recently explored this issue in an article titled “They’re among the world’s oldest living things. The …
Read More »Tracking California’s Coronavirus Cases
A team of public media reporters are gathering information from California health departments every day to keep you updated on the latest confirmed cases and deaths due to COVID-19. This dashboard provides a localized look at COVID-19-related cases and deaths in your county, as well as a risk assessment for …
Read More »Citing Economic Concerns, California’s Oldest Dairy Closes Its Doors
After more than a century of milk production, California’s oldest dairy is closing. The owner isn’t getting out of agriculture altogether, however—he’s switching out cows for trees. Dino Giacomazzi is a fourth-generation dairy farmer in Hanford. Having produced milk since 1893, he suspects Giacomazzi Dairy may be the oldest west …
Read More »What Is ‘SGMA?’ A Primer On California’s Groundwater Overhaul Law
We in California are depleting our groundwater aquifers faster than we can replenish them. Over the last few decades in the San Joaquin Valley, that deficit has averaged close to two million acre-feet per year, a total that was exacerbated by drought conditions that may become more common as the …
Read More »No, Gavin Newsom Didn’t Just Kill California’s High-Speed Rail Project
Governor Gavin Newsom’s remarks on California’s embattled high-speed rail project in his State of the State address Tuesday seemed to confuse just about everyone. Supporters and opponents alike questioned whether he’s scaling back the project, or even abandoning it. Turns out … he really isn’t changing all that much. Capital …
Read More »What California’s Transparent Hospital Prices Can And Can’t Tell Us About Actual Charges
If you or a loved one needed to go to the emergency room, how would you pay the bill? If you’re like most Americans, you don’t have huge cash funds socked away for a trip to the ER. Most of us are overwhelmed by the high cost of healthcare—and it …
Read More »California’s Worsening Wildfire Conditions Putting Firefighters At Risk
September is over, and that used to signal the end of wildfire season. But as 2017’s massive Thomas Fire showed us, wildfires in California can rage on well into December. Meanwhile firefighting has gotten a lot more complicated; there’s drought to contend with, and housing development in fire-prone areas. Six …
Read More »California’s Successes And Failures As A Healthcare Testing Ground
As the fifth largest economy on the globe, California is looked to in many ways as a world leader—not just in terms of agricultural production and climate change mitigation goals, but also in the field of health, where we’ve been a testing ground for new ideas in health care policy …
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