Saving the Old Growth Sequoia Groves – Redwood Voice Community News

July 19th, 2024 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from Caltrans District 1; Crescent City councilors make an emergency declaration to fix the damage on Pebble Beach Drive; nine local businesses can keep running because of Crescent City’s two forgivable loan programs; Sutter Health hospitals were awarded for providing quality care to mothers while reducing C-Section rates; the CDFW Office of Spill Prevention and Response is funding projects that enhance, restore or acquire habitat for wildlife; Northern California condors are coming back and forth from their zoos to the release site; the Curry Cruiser Benefit Car Show showed just how much these hot rod centered events benefit the community; the Curry County Board of Commissioners deeply discuss the leasing of land for offshore wind energy; new studies find that California needs to intervene in order to save its old-growth giant sequoia groves; and Grants Pass holds a press conference on affordable housing solutions after the Supreme Court sides with their controversial homeless laws. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.

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Today’s news card image is courtesy of Nathan Stephenson/USGS, which has been edited.