Page 14 - Dolan Fire News Today

Highway 1 in Big Sur to reopen week ahead of schedule on Friday Share Updated: 7:16 PM PDT Apr 19, 2021 Share Updated: 7:16 PM PDT Apr 19, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript BUT THAT ITS REMARKABLE FOR THEM TO SEE THE WILD FLOWERS REGROW.. ### CALTRANS IS MOVING UP E TH REOPENING DAY AGAIN FOR HIGHWAY ONE SOUTH OF BIG SUR. CALTRANS TWEETED OUT A FEW PICTURES OF THE ROADWAY AT RAT CREEK TODAY. CALTRANS SAYS T HE HIGHWAY WILL OPEN THIS FRIDAY AT NOON...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Abalone diving is banned, and work goes on to restore the giant sea snail on Californias coast FacebookTwitterEmail UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory scientist Daniel Swezey holds a wild red abalone, a species that is disappearing from California’s coastal waters.Stephen Lam / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of6 Technician Joe Newman cleans an algae culture tank at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay.Stephen Lam / The ChronicleShow MoreS...

Highway 1 in Big Sur to reopen later this month April 8, 2021 Caltrans announced today it will reopen Highway 1 at Rat Creek near Big Sur by April 30 – nearly two months ahead of its target date. Debris flow from the Dolan Fire burn scar washed out a 150-foot section of roadway on Jan. 28, resulting in a full closure. After assessing the damage, removing debris and making minor repairs, Caltrans began to reconnect the roadway at Rat Creek with an enhanced fill. Starting in late February, cr...

Skip to main content Currently Reading The stretch of Highway 1 that washed into the ocean will soon be fixed - way ahead of schedule FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Hadley Hargrove at the site of a washout on Highway 1 near Rat Creek on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2020.Kodiak Greenwood / Special to The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less 2of2 The site of a washout on Highway 1 near Rat Creek on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2020. Good weather and a seven-day-a-week work schedule have meant the highway will be able to reopen...

Rush to rescue thousands of endangered abalone buried in Big Sur landslides [San Francisco Chronicle] Apr. 3—Wendy Bragg knew California’s abalone population was in bad shape. The UC Santa Cruz researcher had been leading surveys of black abalone along the remote Big Sur coast, one of the last strongholds of the endangered mollusk. But how much worse things would get for this small, shelled marine creature, once a common seafood delicacy, Bragg and her fellow scientists could not have imagi...

Rush to rescue thousands of endangered abalone buried in Big Sur landslides FacebookTwitterEmail 1of12 When biologists discovered this abalone, only a portion of its shell was exposed. But after carefully removing sand from the area, it was safely removed using specialized tools called abalone irons.Kenan Chan / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of12 A young rescued black abalone near Big Sur was placed on a piece of drift kelp — a long overdue meal.Kenan Chan / Special to The Chron...

Tue March 09, 2021 - West Edition #6 Caltrans After assessing the damage, removing debris and making minor repairs, Caltrans will reconnect the roadway at Rat Creek with an enhanced fill option. Caltrans announced that major emergency repairs of Highway 1 on the Big Sur Coast at Rat Creek have begun and that it estimates it will reopen the famed roadway early this summer. Debris flow from the Dolan Fire burn scar washed out a 150-ft. section of roadway on Jan. 28, causing a full closure. Cal...

Eyes will be on a possible hatch around the start of May Redwood Queen #190 and Phoenix #477, a new pairing, are the parents NESTS ACROSS CALIFORNIA... are currently serving as amazing incubators to countless eggs as March begins. Little birds, big birds, and animals that are not birds at all are nesting, preparing, and carefully keeping watch over their soon-to-be growing broods. And each egg that we humans can observe via photographs, eyewitness reports, or nest cams? Call it total excitement...

“The repairs for Highway 1 at Rat Creek include improvements that can prevent similar damage from future debris flows,” said Caltrans District 5 Director Tim Gubbins in a press release. “We look forward to swiftly making these repairs so that all travelers will have a safe and resilient stretch of highway.” After assessing the damage, removing debris and making minor repairs, the roadway will be reconnected at Rat Creek with an enhanced fill option. Caltrans will fill the canyon with di...

A road like no other, in peril like never before Scott Wilson, The Washington Post Feb. 27, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail GORDA, Calif. - Life here in this tiny town built on the continent-ending cliffs of the Pacific coast has always had an anxious "when," not "if," quality to it. And much of that uncertain fate, season to season and year to year, has been tied to the two-lane road that runs through it. Highway 1 is a California spectacle, a Depression-era monument to the states quixotic ambition...