Today on Friday, February 20th, Assemblymember Chis Rogers introduced AB 2494, a bill that would provide a transformative update to the management of California’s State Demonstration Forests by shifting the management of the forest away from industrial commercial timber production, and towards ecological restoration, climate resilience, and Tribal co-governance for more than 85,000 acres of public forestland statewide.

On February 12th, the Trump Administration announced it was rescinding this 2009 “endangerment finding,” arguing that it was both legally invalid. The domino effect of this is that the EPA now claims it lacks the same power to regulate these gases, and existing regulations tied to this endangerment finding must go too.

Wolves are drawing heightened attention as the state recently expanded efforts to monitor wildlife in Northern California by conducting helicopter operations to collar wolves, elk, and deer.