Nevada County’s State Senator is pushing for more in-depth studies of wildfire impacts on wildlife and their habitats. Brian Dahle has introduced a bill that would require the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to use their time and resources to do that…

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Dahle says last year alone over four-million acres burned statewide…

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Dahle says the goal of the legislation is to establish a baseline of information to understand the true impacts. Only then, he says, can the state begin to address encompassing solutions. The State Senate Appropriations Committee has voted to send the bill to suspense, for a hearing at a later date.