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The target is the Orange County portion of the wetlands on the former Hellman property.

At its November 18, 2021 quarterly meeting, the Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) approved approximately $25 million in grants to help restore and protect fish and wildlife habitat throughout California.

The 2021‑22 budget package provides a total of $21.7 billion from various fund sources—the General Fund, bond funds, and various special funds—for programs administered by the California Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Agencies. This is a net increase of $4.8 billion (22 percent) compared to 2020‑21 estimated expenditures.

Governor Newsom Announces Appointments Sacramento, California - Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments:  Jeffery Scott Christman, 50, of Roseville, has been appointed Chief Deputy Director of the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. Christman has been Deputy Director for the Center for Health Statistics and Informatics at the California Department of Public Health since 2020. He was Practice Area Leader for Data and Analytics at Slalom Consul...

In an arid land, the Los Angeles network of waterways abounds with big birds, bike riders, hikers and horsemen. Now the city has a plan for it. Silva pulls mud from the Los Angeles River, saying it makes the perfect base for the start of a freshwater aquarium. (Courthouse News photo/Bill Girdner) LOS ANGELES (CN) — Kneeling on its concrete bank, Silva reached down through the water of the Los Angeles River and pulled out the perfect thing: a handful of mud. He makes freshwater aquariums, and ...

Print In the decades since engineers first blanketed the Los Angeles River with concrete, working-class communities along its armored banks have struggled with blight, poverty and crowding — unintended consequences perhaps of an epic bid to control Mother Nature. Now, as many of these neighborhoods suffer disproportionately higher rates of infection from COVID-19 — and as the nation seeks to atone for racial and institutional injustices laid bare in the police killing of George Floyd — fa...