It's been a while since I've blogged on this site. The reason is that my husband and I have spent the last few months deciding whether to...

It's still May, but already we're experiencing vegetation fires here in Sonoma County. One fire, called the Grove Fire, has prompted...

Yesterday we got the news that the U.S. Drought Monitor has classified Sonoma County as exceptional--the worst of its five categories of...

According to Cal Fire's 2021 Wildfire Season web page, "the fire season in California and across the West is starting earlier and ending...

Following up on my March 20, 2021 blog post, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, following the suggestions made by the Center for...

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors will meet at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 23. They are scheduled to discuss the findings from...

In an article titled Armstrong Redwoods could reopen by Memorial Day, the Press Democrat talked to Brendan O'Neil, the senior...

The Bohemian published an Open Mic piece I wrote about how, having experienced such devastating wildfires over the last few years, all of...

Congratulations to Marshall Turbeville, chief of the Northern Sonoma County Fire District and a Cal Fire battalion chief. He is to...

We're all familiar with the types of losses associated with California wildfires: deaths and injuries, destruction of property, and...

In 2020, fruit damaged by wildfires and left on the vine resulted in a devastating loss for North Coast grape growers. According to the...

PG&E recently filed a 1,013-page plan with utility regulators in which they say they'll spend $6 billion in the next two years on new...