The director of the Karuk Tribe’s Natural Resources Department was named July 7 to the Biden-Harris administration’s Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission, which is tasked with recommending policies and strategies to better prevent, mitigate, manage and recover from wildfire to Congress. Bill Tripp, a Karuk Tribal member, brings with him traditional knowledge passed down […]
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Governor Signs Wood’s Wildfire Prevention Bill
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed North Coast Assemblymember Jim Wood’s bill creating a wildfire prevention entity in the Office of the State Fire Marshal into law. “It is clear that we cannot firefight our way out of this wildfire crisis,” Wood said in a press release. “California needs both a world-class firefighting force and a […]