45.7 F
Scotts Valley
January 14, 2025

Tag: environment

Fossil sloth bone

Students find fossil sloth bone in Santa Cruz Mountains

Local students from Tara Redwood School playing in the Santa Cruz Mountains last spring found a strange object that they suspected was a bone...
Upper Zayante watershed

Sempervirens Fund permanently protects 120 acres in Santa Cruz Mountains’ Upper...

With the donation of a conservation easement from private landowners to Sempervirens Fund, California’s first land trust, 120 acres in the Upper Zayante watershed...
Trees

What’s the best way to grow a forest?

Felton resident Karen Holl’s talk at her hometown library Feb. 3 occurred just as a storm rolled in underscoring just how intrinsically linked our...
News Briefs

News Briefs | Published Feb. 2, 2024

Environmental Studies professor to discuss tree planting An upcoming program called, “Can We Save the World by Planting Trees?”, will take place Saturday, Feb. 3,...
State Parks pile burn

California State Parks begins pile burning through April

California State Parks has begun burning piles in various State Parks in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties. Burning began Jan. 5, with conditions dependent...

Scotts Valley graduate takes part in COP28 climate summit

When upwards of 30,000 people from 195 countries descend this week for the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, a Santa Cruz local and Scotts...

RTC seeks input for project aimed at adapting county transportation network...

Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) is seeking community input through an online survey on its Climate Adaptation Vulnerability Assessment and Priorities Report...

Scotts Valley agrees to fund quarter-million-dollar Skypark detoxification

Scotts Valley has agreed to front the money to pay for a quarter-million-dollar environmental cleanup at Skypark, which was found to contain arsenic, lead...

Battered by storms, Big Basin reopens more park trails

Over the past couple weeks, flames have once again been flickering up from the terrain of Big Basin Redwoods State Park, a place that...

Roaring Camp still chugging along at 60

When Jonathan Hawkins got the late-breaking news that Roaring Camp Railroads would be dropping its tourist train ticket price to the historical rate of...

SOCIAL MEDIA

2,479FansLike
6FollowersFollow
762FollowersFollow
Roadwork

Final paving, striping on Highway 9 continues this week

A major maintenance paving project continues on Highway 9 between El Solyo Heights Drive in Felton and California Drive in Ben Lomond. Travelers on Highway...