Modoc County News

Fuel reduction leads to fewer large fires Posted on Tuesday, July 22 @ 15:34:02 PDT July 22, 2008 - Politicians are fiddling while our forests burn, according to the Lassen County Fire Safe Council's managing ...

While a stubborn fire southeast of Big Sur continued to send flames in new directions on Sunday, threatening nearly 1,300 homes, pollution regulators provided better news, predicting the re-emergence of healthy ...

Municipal Services Bureau has been chosen by Modoc County, California to provide outsourced collection services.

Trails trust receives grant for rail line Posted on Tuesday, June 17 @ 10:56:46 PDT June 17, 2008 - The California Wildlife Conservation Board awarded a $420,000 grant toward the acquisition of the old Modoc ...

“The plan is not just for wildfire, you could have a train derail, a dam break, a major storm, or even a disastrous earthquake”

CAL FIRE issues red flag warning and suspends burn permits Posted on Wednesday, May 14 @ 16:23:31 PDT The Lassen Modoc unit of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has issued a red flag ... via Lassen County Times & Westwood Pine P...

“We just feel if we have water problems up here we can handle them ourselves”

Worries over growth and water in the Reno area have crept north nearly 200 miles and across state lines. via Reno Gazette-Journal

The county will consider a 45-day extension to a moratorium on some of the Code Enforcement Unit activities while a task force formed to review its policies and procedures gets established to do its work. via Eureka Reporter

“If you can't see Mt. Shasta, don't cut your hay today.”

I didn't find out for sure, but can only guess that Surprise Valley was named by an earlier settler on the Oregon Trail who came upon this wonderful high altitude valley on their trek to the west coast. via BoomtownUSA

Larry Grant Ward Sr., born in Eureka on Dec. 9, 1937, to Rex and Eleanor Ward, passed away in his sleep at home on April 28, 2008. via Eureka Reporter

“The numbers really aren't that unusual”

Headed by Frank Cady, the movement would have placed Susanville in line with hundreds of other communities that were engulfed in a nationwide patriotic wave. via Lassen County Times & Westwood Pine P...

“Isn't it amazing to think of how wet and lush the redwood forests are, and how hot and arid the deserts are? You can't find anywhere else with such a variety of terrain.”

Contributed photo California Trip has historic as well as scenic photographs There's a section in the new glossy, coffee-table photo book "California Trip" where photographers Richard Blair and Kathleen Goodwin ... via Santa Cruz Sentinel

Published 12:00 am PDT Friday, March 14, 2008 Story appeared in BUSINESS section, Page E2 The California Association of Four Wheel Drive Clubs, its member clubs and other off-roading organizations have compiled ... via Sacramento Bee Newspaper

“That's an incredibly inflated price”

Nancy Fiddler is cleaning out her garage in Sebastopol these days, which is the thing to do if your garage has a mastodon in it. via San Francisco Chronicle

“I've never seen anything like this before”

Bruce Bernard is not in the habit of wearing a crucifix to work at IDEXX veterinary lab in West Sac. via Sacbee.com

“The best possible man is already there.”

There's always a back story. The Greek philosophers knew this. Novelists and screenwriters know this. via The Press Democrat

“These counties have historically been very dependant upon 25 percent of Forest Reserve revenues, which were largely the result of substantial timber harvesting and other revenues raised on national forest lands.”

Schools and roads in Lassen and Modoc counties got no funding Christmas gift from the U.S. Congress. via Lassen County Times & Westwood Pine P...

A former Modoc County doctor has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for possession of child pornography. via KSBY-TV San Luis Obispo

A 73-year-old Modoc County man is in jail after authorities say they discovered a cache of illegal guns and other weapons, including a hand grenade, at his home. via Red Bluff Daily News

“Columbus did not discover America. The value of the native people and Native American culture, the respect for the land, the water, all living beings and all our relations to this earth are not being understood.”

Members of Susanville's Native American community want to partner with the Susanville School District and develop a strategic plan to increase the awareness of Native American culture. via Lassen County Times & Westwood Pine P...

“I can't pinpoint why this year seems to be worse than other years.”

John Suther of the CDFA Bureau of Livestock Identification, Eric Fennell of the Kern County Sheriff's Department Rural Crime Investigation Unit and Danny Ritchea of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's ... via Ag Alert