Todd Fitchette
Protecting and promoting managed honeybees and other pollinators in California is the object of a new coalition between various agriculture, government, and non-governmental organizations. The groups aim to provide habitat and forage for pollinators and beneficial insects across California s agricultural landscape.
A coalition of agriculture, natural resource organizations and conservation groups announced a partnership to boost pollinator habitat on farms and elsewhere across California. While the goal implies efforts to benefit the bees used to pollinate the state s almond crop, there are other benefits said to be borne from the effort.
The newly formed coalition between the Pollinator Partnership and a host of groups, including the Almond Board of California and California Department of Food and Agriculture, aims to provide habitat and forage for pollinators and beneficial insects across the state s agricultural landscape. Common practi
Diverse Group of Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resource Organizations Comes Together to Protect California s Pollinators
New California Pollinator Coalition pledges to increase pollinator habitat on working lands
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A broad array of organizations from across California s agricultural and environmental landscape announced a working coalition to address their shared commitment to the health of wild and managed pollinators. The Coalition is focusing on increasing the value working lands provide to our environment, to benefit biodiversity and farmers alike.
The California Pollinator Coalition, convened by Pollinator Partnership, the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the Almond Board of California, is made up of a diverse group of agricultural and conservation organizations with the shared goal of providing enhanced habitat for pollinators.
The Bear Fire burns near Lake Oroville in September 2020. The need for increasing prevention and response tactics to wildfires in California is only becoming more crucial, the group says.
The California Cattlemen s Association is praising Gov. Gavin Newsom for moving forward on items in the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan the governor unveiled in January, including fuel load management.
The plan seeks to increase the pace and scale of forest and wildland management to meet the state’s target of completing projects on 500,000 acres annually by 2025 and expanding the use of prescribed fire, particularly on state-owned lands, according to a news release.
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Evered J. âRedâ Mason, 99, passed away on Feb. 23, 2021. He was born in Los Gatos on Feb. 22, 1922 to Edward H. and Eva Mason.
Red attended elementary school where all eight grades were in the same room, and graduated from Los Gatos High School in 1938. He was inducted into the Army in February 1943 and served in England, France and Germany during World War II. After his discharge, he returned to Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo to complete his college education and graduated in 1948. He then joined the rodeo for several years, riding bulls and bareback horses. He also homesteaded farming land near Yuma, Ariz., under the Veterans Homestead Act. In 1955, he and his wife Bernadine purchased a ranch near Galt where he resided until his death.