forest service. she has a year's worth of critical on the ground knowledge, a valuable resource for many issues we will be discussing here today. kelly, congratulations on your appointment, thank you for joining us today from wyoming, in washington. >> thank you. thank you, chairman manchin, thank you member barrasso and the committee for opportunity to testify on half of the wyoming state forestry division. my name is kelly norris, and the interim oil state forester. the integration and cooperation of federal, state and county cooperators has been a success for wyoming. our firefighter and these have adapted and evolved over decades to become a more effective and efficient alliance, whose main focus is protecting life and our valuable communities, infrastructure, grasslands and forest. while music for history is tasked with wildfires suppression and management on three and a half million acres of state trust land, and supression on 20 million acres of private land. 40% of the states federally owned.

our plans are written by the forest service. ve some landowners who work with private consulting foresters and come to us for uh, various other programs such as the tree farm program or different cost share programs that we offer. so, i do work with several cost share programs. our state cost share program is the woodland incentives program, also known as wip for short. uh, and it offers, uh, cost share assistance for a variety of management practices anything from tree planting to um, timber stand improvement, which could be various levels of thinning, invasive plant control. we recognize tha...that presents a cost to the landowners. so, we have programs in place to help reimburse them for that. similarly, on the federal side, uh, there's the eqip program, environmental quality incentives program that offers cost share practices. and also, the crep program, the conservation reserve enhancement program. crep is primarily geared towards tree planting, specifically, but it offers some added incentives for landowners who are interes

for the forest service when you're 25 in 1930 and you spend 30 or 40 years and that forest service itis going to look pretty radically different by the time you retire. >> host: the landscape probably looks very different and the process, all of a sudden where you use to as a forest ranger might have gone out and talked with a few people about what was going to happen in the forest you now have a formal system of public consultations that are participated in by people all over the country, a number of federal laws that need to be considered as you plan for the forest and these are all, these are all great conservation victories but they certainly changed the conversation about the public lands in play significantly. >> absolutely. >> host: so this -- you talk about how in a lot of ways this, shall we say crowding over the table, don't mean to make it sound negative, this inclusion of more people at the table without necessarily making the table bigger, that led to, in some ways led into the political polarization we saw during the reagan years, talk about the connection there and i'm

forest service, u.s. fish and wild life service and the park service. the written records contain the stories of the beginning of federal stewardship. in this book, making america's public lands, adam takes us through the history of the lands and examines the changing priorities and challenges concerning them. and a professor of history at the university of idaho, and the west coast an environmental history and conservation and the moon. for the planet sectn in a series ... called life up close her writing has appeared in publications, including the nation's geographic and the new york times magazine, and she's the author of beloved beasts fighting for life in an age of extinction now, let's hear from adam swords and michelle nighouse. thank you for joining us today. hi everyone. it's such a pleasure to be with you today. i'm michelle niehaus, and i'm here with adam sowards to talk about his his wonderful new book, "making america's public lands." if you're tuning intraday, it's likely that you spent some time in what adam calls the public lands, our na

forest service, u.s. fish and wildlife service, and the national park service. the written records photographs of motion pictures contain the stories of the beginnings of federal stewardship. in his book "making america's public lands" adam sowards take us to the history of the flames and examined the changing priorities and challenges concerning them. adam sowards is professor of history at the university of idaho. is the author of united states west coast environmental history, the environmental justice william douglas and american conservation, entered open pit visible from the moon. michelle nijhuis is project editor at the atlantic where she edits futures for the planet section in the series called life up close to her writing has appeared in publications including the national geographic at the "new york times" magazine, and she is author of beloved beasts, fighting for life in an age of extinction. now let's hear from adam sowards and michelle nijhuis. thank you for joining us today. >> hi, everyone. it such a pleasure to be with you today. i'm michelle n

start working for the forest service when you're 25 and 1930 and you spend 30 or 40 years in that forest service. it's gonna look pretty radically different by the time that you retire. right that i mean the landscape probably looks very different and then and the processes as you're saying, you know, all of a sudden there's a there where you used to as a as a forest ranger, you might have gone out and talked with a few people about what was going to happen next year on the forest you now have a formal system of public consultations that are participated in by people from all over the country. there are a number of federal laws that that need to be it as your as you're planning for the forest and you know, these were all these are all what we consider today great conservation victories, but they certainly changed the conversation about the public lands in in quite ways. absolutely. yeah. so so this and you talk about how this this in a lot of ways. this shall we say crowding of the table? i don't mean to make it sound negative this this inclusion of more people at the table without neces

forest service, u.s. fish and wildlife service and the national park service. the written records, photographs and motion pictures contain the stories of the beddings of federal stewardship. in his book, making america's public lands, takes us to the history of these lands and examines changing priorities and challenges concerning them. a professor of history at the university of idaho. the author of united states west coast and environmentalnd histo. the environmentalce justice and the american conservation. and visible from the moon. michelle knaus as project editor of the atlantic she hundreds futures who plotted section a series called lifo right writings appeared in publications in the near times utmagazine. she's the author of beloved beast, fighting for life in an age of extinction let's hear from adam and michelle. thank you for joining us today. >> hi everyone. it is such ait pleasure to be wh you today. i am michelle i am here with adam. to talk about his a wonderful new book making america's public lands of you are tuning in today it is likely you've

in one system, to ensure control over the use and restoration of forests, as well as to provide servicesst users without a personal visit to state bodies , and in the form, through a single information system , more than two million state forest services will be provided annually to the implementation of the unified state forest service. register. plans to move on stage will start with three pilot regions from september 1 this year. these are the moscow arkhangelsk and ulyanovsk regions by the end of the twenty- third, 60 more subjects will join them. well, in full on the territory of the entire russian federation, the unified state forest registry has been operating since january 1, 25. perhaps there is a bank loan cash deliveries of 3.9% per annum for all one of my friends has a difficult relationship with the internet, a cool blow. now i'll start, damn it, that file too. no way anymore artyom is megafon, everything flies with him. switch to megafon, the number one mobile operator in terms of speed and coverage, cool video spread faster than i thought, because with 5g it's even faster.

forest service system. it's 17 million acres. most of it probably has never actually had people walk through. it's the largest intact coastal temperate rain forest left in the world. - oh! look at that! - oh yeah! so we got a bald eagle that just flew overhead. you hear some of the high-pitched chirping? that's a bald eagle. some of the weird [imitates birds], some of those weird... those are ravens. - you know what i love? it's the fact that you can just drive for five minutes, or just walk for 15 minutes and be in this environment. - i think a lot of people, they're caught up in the whole romanticism of it, of like: "yeah, i can go in the woods and test myself against nature", and what have you... and you can't just get off a cruise ship, throw on a backpack and some hiking shoes and just plan on going out and it being o.k. because stuff happens. you don't know. - stuff happens. because it is bear country here. - oh yeah. in the whole state, there's like one bear for every six people. - that is a lot, erin! - there are a lot of

in one system, ensure control over the use and restoration of forests, as well as provide services toorest users without personal visits to government bodies and in electronic form. through a single information system will be provided over two million state forest services annually to the introduction of a unified state forest registry. plans to move the stage will begin with three pilot regions from september 1 this year. these are the moscow arkhangelsk and ulyanovsk regions by the end of the twenty-third , 60 more subjects will join them. and in full on the territory of the entire russian federation, the unified state forest registry has been operating since january 1, 25. social entrepreneurship is actively developing in moscow. now in the city more 46,000 of these companies, their work is aimed at solving complex social problems. they support representatives of the most vulnerable categories of citizens, which is exactly what the social business of the capital does. today we will visit some of these companies. here we see the correct toilet bowl, it differs from the usual ones in

forest service or calfire moves in very quickly to communicate with the utility.on that the dwutility is the entit that removes the equipment or has a contractor remove the equipment for certain safety concerns. however, it's usually done in coordination and in communication with a lot of these stakeholders involved, especially the investigating agencies. >> and obviously, you know, forest service not involved here. this was a different situation, which is why atf is involved instead of forest service. have you been in contact with municipalities in california who were devastated in the campfire that swept through paradise and killed more than 80 people there in 2018? >> so, i have been lead counsel 95 different times in entities in utility-caused wildfire cases. one of my clients is the town of paradise, which, as you mentioned, suffered severe devastation in the 2018 campfire. i also represented butte county in that same fire. i represented sonoma, napa county, los angeles county, santa barbara county. and these types of civil lawsuits are very regular for count

in the form through a single information system , more than two million state forest services will bennually to the introduction of the unified state forest register. plans to move in stages will begin with three pilot regions from september 1 this year. these are the moscow arkhangelsk and ulyanovsk regions by the end of the twenty-third , 60 more subjects will join them. well, in full on the territory of the entire russian federation, the unified state forest registry has been operating since january 1, 25. ukraine a difficult winter awaits with forecasts for a new heating season, local media write that it is possible to turn off heat and light, but only if moscow hits energy facilities again, supposedly all the consequences of last year's launches have already been eliminated. is this true or just another hoax. kyiv understood evgenia petrukhina. this is just the case when there may not be light at the end of the tunnel, and ukraine may well find itself in ice captivity without electricity, without heating, the minister, energy, independent and began to announce blackouts already n

as i said, old forest service is around the world of got to realize the potential for these forest size is increasing because a few in inches climate change. therefore, if i have to have strategies to minimize these far as size, they're going to have to do far as food in that is do we send the i'm the grows, they can do that with just 125 as you need the food together. certainly in the united states, the far as uh, this is looking at how you could maybe advise the risk that is a combination of managing the forest by sitting and especially the, i'm the grows i've been doing some control files. so when you do effectively get, as far as thought it's old, managed to evaluate the future, you need to reduce what we call the tools out. the amount of dry vegetation. and matthew low does seem to be quite intense. what we're seeing in my way, robert was we have to leave it there. thank you very much for joining us. former chair of the ip c. c. thank you very much. of course, government has declared a state of emergency after a presidential candidate was assassinated on the campaign trail. the kil

america's public lands, and by that i mean the lands managed by the four big agencies, parks, forest service, fish and service and bureau of land management in a long time and you folks in utah know more about public lands generally. speaking than most americans, but still, when you tell people that the united states owns more than 600 million acres of public lands, plains, mountains, wetlands, seashores deserts, they're surprised because, you know, the celebration of private property and distrust of government, particularly national government, is sort of baked into our culture. so people are surprised to learn that. and when i give talks around on this subject, the first question i usually get is i had no idea how did that happen? and so i frankly wrote this book to try to answer that question, how it of course, it didn't just happen. it it came about because the political system, our political primarily in washington represent in the national government made political decisions that resulted in colors that you see on this map and what those decisions were. and how they came to be made are

firefighters who work for the us forest service and other federal agencies are about to get a huge payut in 2021. they were given a raise averaging $20,000 a year. that's about half their salary. but the increase was temporary and expires at the end of next month. there's a proposal in congress to make the race permanent, but it faces opposition that has some members of congress very concerned that a budget is a commitment to your values. we hope that house republicans value federal wildland firefighters, the federal firefighters union estimates 5000 firefighters will quit if the pay raise is not made permanent. that's half the federal wildland firefighters, which means state, regional and local firefighting crews would have to step in when there is a fire on federal land. walmart and exxonmobil are joining forces to offer plus members double the savings on gas for a limited time. walmart plus members can now get $0.20 off every gallon of gas purchased at participating exxon and mobil stations until september 15th. the retailer says the deal is to give customers a break at the pump aft

used to be a lot of mountain lions there there are hundreds of them killed over the years the forest service hired a ranger to kill the mountain lions and nobody was thinking ecologically about what happens if you kill the predators? the parade, the deer going to explode there's a massiveve population explosion. teddy roosevelt loved hunting. he is still of the canyon for other reasonsth he tried his bet to make it a national park. he could not persuade arizona or congress to make a national parks are 1908 he made it a national monument which a president can do like signing a bill. that gave certain protections but the lower level protection then he wanted. did not renew all the private mining claims or ranching claims or timber claims. so he was deadhs for a few monts before it finally became a national park and he never lived to see he regretted he did not succeed in making a national park. from the became a park the river it was here first bringing tourists and they loved it tourists were bringing in money in the arizona businessmen were noticing hey this is worth more than those minds th

they have been taken down, but the forest service says it's going to cost more than $2 million to cover damage caused by those containers. once arizona pays the bill, the case will be dismissed. but this all awaits a final judicial order. san mateo county says it's taken action against the rise in organized retail theft. county officials gathered right across the street from the hillsdale mall in san mateo, the site of several thefts in recent months. board of supervisors president david canepa says he'll be calling on state lawmakers to beef up state laws on criminal theft penalties . enough is enough. what's happening in our shopping centers, our malls, our absolutely unacceptable. this has been a problem. that's been going on right after covid. and it's only escalated. he says. there's also a plan in the works to work with other california counties in creating a hotline for retailers to report retail theft. coming up, a plan that could help millions of americans save money. today's announcement regarding commonly used medications. also, a new owner for one of napa county's most popul

says he's joined several other caldor fire survivors in filing claims for damages against the us forest servicefederal agency of failing to protect the community of grizzly flats if those claims get denied, then they could sue. reporting here in grizzly flats, liz mitri. all right. it's pretty warm out there today, a little warmer than yesterday in many cases. these are the highs, highs tomorrow are going to follow suit with a little more humidity. you probably feel it out there. now. these clouds are surface clouds of fog and low cloud at the coast and pushing into the bay and then there's the high clouds coming in off the sierra nevada, which has delivered us with some humidity and a few light sprinkle showers and even a report of a thundershower or at least doppler reported radar thundershower out by the fairfield area a couple of hours ago. current temperatures, there they are. and here's a live camera shot. looks nice out there. you can't see the fog. it's right at the coast and it's just pushing through the gate. here's that activity i was talking about coming from west or east to west. i

forest service. all these westerly national forests are theodore roosevelt. he took a corrective 31 federal bird reservations with an executive fiat, they said birds were being slaughtered in florida because there was a father's warrant, anybody coming to hear me speak between let's say circa 1900 would have come this morning if you are a woman whether you think you whatever or not you would've come to hear a public lecture wearing a bonnet with an ornamental father in it because there was a father mafia and florida and they gone all the birds down at the rookeries and pluck the feathers and then also still bags. anall these species were dying. and nothing screams federal intervention more than certain environmental things. what good does it do for the audubon society of this is to say we are saving bird species because of progressive politics and a vigorous audubon society associate just laboratory birds to be shot willy-nilly and slaughtered in florida. and the same with eric doesn't do good with air quality to say we are ohio and we have astringent air qua

forest service in montana. masters in history from colorado state university. and mlis from university of denver. taught workshops on ethics and copyright law. with society of rocky mountain archivists. and it has been president of the society, secretary of the academy of archivists, and collected great photos and videos and audio files to share with us from hoover's funeral services in 1964. he died october 20, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. brad. also want to make note this marks the second year of the third thursdays i'm happy to be parts of launching what will be next year. also a note this coming october 27, is world day for audio visual heritage, a key initiative of coordinating counsel of audio visual archives. in that spirit, was able to putua together a very video, visual, production of what happened on those new days after october 20 when mr. hoover died, a combination of army photos and photos black and white, color photos from press, locals and all kinds of media donations have come in over the years. silent film, color film of the army, ho

lucas brehaut a research scientist with the canadian forest service — has told me about the scale ofnumbers for the entire fire season as it stands right now. looking at the number of fires that the provinces and territories have responded to as a total over the course of this fire season, usually starting in early may, is about 5800. a ten year average for this time of year would be about 4800. what is more interesting is the number of area burned for the entire country. as you are well aware, we have had fires from coast—to—coast and the total area burned for canada as it stands right now is about 15 million hectares. the ten year average for that is about 2.3. so as you said, roughly the size of greece. another really interesting comparative for your viewers would be england is about approximately 13 million hackers. so a significant increase in area burned. than increase in area burned. an extraordinarily large amount of area covered by these fires in as i mentioned before, the plumes of smoke that are travelling so far and making it really difficult for people. they are extendin

we are joined by ellen whitman, a forest fire research scientist with the canadian forest service. me about this forest. the area that's being burned and how precious the forest is.— precious the forest is. nationally it has been _ precious the forest is. nationally it has been a _ precious the forest is. nationally it has been a really _ precious the forest is. nationally it has been a really exceptional. it has been a really exceptional yearin it has been a really exceptional year in canada. we are looking at about 15 million actors burned so far and that is relative to a 20 year average in more like 2 million actors any given year. the extent is quite specifically nbc fires are very active in the north prior to the first half of the fire season. now the fires concentrated more in the salt. the forest that are burning very quite a lot and how they are ecology is affected by fire. almost all forests in canada are fired up for that although we have pretty serious fire situation and and northwest territory at the moment that's in the north and northwest territory at the moment that

over two million state forest services will be provided annually through a single information system.ation trackers of all timber trucks and other equipment involved in the forest plots will also be registered in the same register . 60 more regions from legal entrepreneurs will join them. by whom should not arise, on the contrary, there will be less bureaucratic red tape , less writing in the reports, which will also go into the common piggy bank . it is also important to coordinate, but here you are perfectly aware of the actual compatibility with the unified state real estate cadastre and forest registry. they were all provided by appropriate technologies. and i hope that it will be so, so that for the e user. it was convenient and not burdensome, of course, so that there is an effect from this field of prudent use, including forests. today at a meeting with vice-premiers. mikhail mishustin discussed expanding cooperation within the eurasian economic community and measures to support russian farmers. in particular, subsidies for the transportation of grain in general and fertilizers

forest service officials say at least 755 people were forced to evacuate that area.ine structures have been destroyed and two others have been damaged. so far, it is 2% contained. and the map here shows the smith river complex fire burning in del norte county. the fire has destroyed more than 47,000 acres and no containment at all. zero. it's just miles away from the flames at the happy camp complex. evacuation orders are in place. no one, thankfully, has been hurt. >> the plan to expand oakland international airport could be a big boost to the economy and create more jobs. but some are concerned it will be more noise and more pollution. >> yeah, the group called stop oak expansion has an even bigger concern, one they claim is not addressed in the draft environmental impact report. abc seven news reporter sara hassan joins us live from the airport with more on that. >> unser omen. >> dan, good evening. >> oakland mayor shengtao says expanding the airport would be a big boost to oakland's post-pandemic recovery. but environmentalists say there's one problem. they clai

forest service. she is holding a da in history in northern colorado and archival management from harada state university university of denver. chaired the committee on ethics and capital right law, archives and society of rocket mountains. secretary of the academy in the archives conference. she has collected some great stories and h audio files t share. here on the 25th so thank you for joining us. >> thank you for your kind introduction, brad. i want to maker note this marks the second year and am happy to be part of what will be next year. also, tober 27 is world day for visual heritage. the coordinating council of archives association for institutions regarding our heritage for future generations so was able to have this production of what happened after october 20 when he died. a combination of photos from press, local residents and all kinds of media and this was a military production and a couple pieces of artwork so painful thing. this is to broadcast out of cedar rapids, iowa and radioman th

instead of asphalt, dirt and concrete slabs have nowhere sold plots of forest public services quarter for 40 plots residents of the village spassky vyselki were left without a road due to fraud with the land. a difficult operation was performed by ophthalmologists near moscow on their patient of veterans of the great patriotic war, nikolai bagaev. this year 104 years old 75 films in 75 years at the cinema, illusory special programs in general since the anniversary of state films. so, a powerful fire extinguisher is being put out at these hours in lyubertsy, they say, warehouses in the boiler passage next to the construction hypermarket, according to updated data, the flames lasted more than 1,200 m². a giant table of thick smoke is visible for several kilometers, what is known about the reasons, ask our correspondent sergey samokhi, he joins us live sergey hello. did you manage to stop the spread of fire and if victim information? yes, hello denis, but now here at the site of the fire, the air is still very heavy, such a pungent smell, burnt rubber, but nevertheless , the fire has alr

take them to the -- it's an imperative for collaboration with the national park service and the forest service for our ongoing work as well as maintenance projects and capital improvement projects. >> we have a strong partnership with the national park service aimed at protection of the watershed, it's for the natural values for it, and wilderness area for the park service and protection of water quality. >> for a century now, this dam in a national park brought fresh water to the san francisco bay area which shared stewardship, it will continue to do so for generations to come. >> this will is the moment. it's made possible >> when i open up the paper every day i'm just amazed at how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about the planet i want to leave for my children and other generation, i think of what contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. ♪♪♪ clean power sf is san francisco's key way of fighting climate change by renewable energy and offering it to san francisco customers. i'm from the san francisco public utilities commission. the pr

forest service in montana. she is a certified archivist and holds a ba in history from the university of northern colorado, masters in history from colorado state university and ml i asked from the university of denver. she chaired the society of american archivists in and professional conduct, workshops on ethics in midwest archives society of rocky mount archives. in her career she has been president of the society of rocky mount archivists, secretary of the academy of certified archivists and the midwest archives conference so she has collected some great photos and audio files and shared with us from herbert hoover services in 1964. hoover died october 20th, 1964, buried in west branch on the 20 fifth. thank you for joining us. looking forward to the presentation. >> thank you for your kind introduction and i want to make note this marks the second year of the third thursday and i'm happy to be part of watching what would be the next year and kind of a note, this coming october 20 seventh is world day for a

forest service, accusing them of failing to protect grizzly flats. if those claims are denied they can still sue. the region is still very susceptible to wildfire. now counties are taking length lengthy shifts in fire towers and monitoring for signs of smoke. adding to that is very intense heat coming up. >> and lightning strikes, watching that across northern california. some of that spilling towards the bay area with pretty much wet weather we didn't have. we had rainbows. you had raindrops and lightning at times in the east bay. right now, a little patchy fog in san francisco at 60 degrees. comfortably cool there where the marine air is. but as you move farther inland it is muggy and warm outside. 68 in san rafael. but check out temperatures out towards the tri valley. still 77 degrees. still in the 70s in san jose and all the mid-level cloud cover that brought the showers is acting like a blanket, trapping the heat of the day. highs in the 90s. tomorrow morning don't be surprised if the car thermometer says it's 70 degrees for your morning low te

forest service. l these western national forest theodore roosevelt he took and created 51 federal bird with executive. they showed birds are being slaughtered in florida because there was a feathers were put ft any went to coming to hear me too speak between let's just say circa 1900 would have come this morning if you were a would have or not you would've come here a public lecture wearing a bonnet with an ornamental feather in it. there is a feather mafia in florida and the gun all the birds done with the rookeries and they pluck the feathers they would also steal the eggs. all of these species were dying. nothing screams of federal intervention more than certain environmental things. what good does it do for the audubon society of massachusetts is that we are saving bird species progressive politics and audubon society in massachusetts just for the migratory birds to be shot willy-nilly in slaughtered in florida. the same with eric does not do any good with air quality to say we are ohio and we hav

comes to arson, the best in the country, but limited experience in forest fires, because the forest servicely on the national parks or national forest land, and this is not done on land that was federally owned, and so now they are going to have to look at the items and see where was the origin of the science, and see where it moved. the job is going to be harder, but they are very good at it. >> i did not realize that they had this huge arson investigation, because i think of them as guns and bombs. >> guns and bombs. >> exactly. john miller, i always learn something from you, but you can come back everyday. it is a big ask. >> thank you for checking with us first, sara. >>> and harrowing drone footage of the rescue of the eight people stranded in cable car for 14 hours and six children and two adults clung to the car 900 feet over the valley in northwest pakistan on the way to school. this video was obtained by the bbc and we don't know original source. all on board were brought to safety with the helicopters ultimately and a zip line, and the incident caused pakistan to close all noncomp

200 million acres that were saved through national lands, parks, reserves -- reservations, the forest service. i consider that the first year -- first wave of environmentalists that i wrote about fdr's error who he was the tree planter. when he filled out a form he wrote tree farmer as a job. he was a scientific farmer. eleanor roosevelt said he knows every flower, note, create any hudson river valley. and i can rattle off national parks. he created big bend on dd. the normandy invasion was going on. he created 800 state parks and planted the civilian conservation corps trees. the first two waves, the third wave is this book. it's about three presidents, no roosevelt. it happened after 1945, the atomic age. we started blowing up nuclear weapons in nevada. we detonated 1054 nuclear weapons between 1946-1991. there became an anti-nuclear testing movement which rachel carson was a part of and many others. khairat asked scott king, norman cousins, albert schweitzer. under kennedy we stopped testing with nuclear weapons and made a deal with khrushchev in britain so we don't test those weapons. in

he created today's us forest service. you know he all these western national forests or theodore roosevelt he took and created 51 federal bird reservations with executive fiat. they showed him that birds were being slaughtered in florida because. he was a feathers war. anybody coming? hear me speak. between 1910. let's just say circa 1900 would have come this morning if you were a woman here. whether you think you would have or not, you would have come to hear a public lecture wearing a bonnet with an ornamental feather in it, because it was a feather. must be in florida and they'd gun all the birds down at the rookeries and they'd the feathers. and then they would also steal the eggs. and all of these species were dying and nothing. federal intervention more than certain environmental things. what does it do for the audubon society? a massachusetts, to say we're saving, you know, birds, species because of our progressive polyp and a vigorous audubon, massachusetts, just for those migratory birds to be shot, willing and sl

forest service as there are 19 other fires in the national forest, and lightning has sparked all of themnderstorms are in the forecast, and that could lead to more wildfires. the california office of emergency services strike team on its way to eugene, oregon to fight wildfires up there. crews left early to make the journey north. a strike team will be there for up to 21 days fighting fires. the team has 22 members coming from multiple fire departments. kristen: the rubber taxi service crews lawn service in san francisco yesterday. the company and people any melt letting them know that their rides were being offered. people can book a ride with the app. state regulators gave the ok for crews to begin charging for 20 47 driverless rights. some city leaders say they will ask regulators to be considered due to concerns over safety. larry: turning a roadblock into riches. how an american stranded overseas made the best of the bad situation. ashton kutcher and mila one aleve works all day so i can keep working my magic. just one aleve. 12 hours of uninterrupted pain relief. aleve. who do you

jobina: forest service officials say that crews are fighting 20 wildfires near the california oregonacuations. drew: number five, we will see a cooling trend get underway today. humidity is going to stay elevated, it is still muggy this morning. we have the marine layer that will pull back to the coast. it is cooler today, 70's bay shoreline and upper 80's and low 90's inland. sue: metering lights on at 5:33 this morning, we are pretty stacked up beyond the over crossing. there is the drivetime from hercules through the back up all the way to the city. kumasi: a slimy hobbyist turned this german snail breeder into a social media hit. she has gone viral. she shows off the different types of snail variety she cares for. this is a huge one. she has been dubbed a snailfluencer and says snails make rate pets because they are easy to care for and little attention. -- need little attention. >>> good morning america. new clues about what may have triggered the maui wild fire, as the death toll rises overnight. is this the moment caught on tape that sparked the deadliest wild fire in modern u

today it takes place on a relatively small proportion of blm and forest service plans.tally silent on public land. the message of the contract with america was well told in advance by a brilliant gop message or a guy named frank lance who is still around. he advised gop not to challenge what he called "the most popular federal programs today specifically conservation of public land and do parks and open spaces. republicans are following his advice ever ince. in early 2009 president obama signed a protection management. most of it had been assembled earlier when the publicans they put millions more acres in the wilderness system established for new conservation areas and added three units to the national park of some. i know some of you are wondering, but then the trump administration break that matter? and make numerous other efforts to bend public land pocy away from conservation toward more industrial expansion. i believe a good case can be made that donald trump correctly grasp most who identify as republicans in the last and elsewhere do not ysupport either transfer

like a homesteader into the forest service, first female fire lookout were divorced. a mother of five became the first female lawyer. her brother became a senator. of course she should have been the senator but she started the position of public defender which was considered a very radical thing. she transferred the voice and now they are everywhere but the first one is the california amazing woman. her, she was married to a nerdy whale and left. she went on to become a crackerjack lawyer. montana's rankin the first woman elected to congress. or bisexual like the new mexican educator and politician. by the 1890s, huge numbers of women and the nebraska farm like grandmother of 11 helped make the west the national capital of the new progressive politics. she wrote a very loud ballot called stand up for nebraska that brought everybody to their feet. e opposing the monopolies of the era where the 1%, there've been certainly rich people in america but they until they started after the civil war there were these enormous inequities like separated the superrich from everyone

drilling and large-scale commercial logging take place on a relatively small proportion of blm and forest service land. the pattern helped subsequent administrations. 1994, newt gingrich leaked the campaign using what's called the contract with america to look at the house for the republicans, bristles with antigovernment records, totally silent on public land. the message of the contract with america was well polled in advance by a brilliant messenger named frank nonce who is still around and he put the matter broadly, he advised the gop not to challenge what he called the most popular federal programs today, specifically conservation of public land and waters through open spaces. republicans generally followed his advice ever since. the tea party in 2010, recapturing the house but did not result in significant efforts to pull back protections for public land. republican party the last couple decades has moved it to let's think about selling off some public land, some dog whistles of the far right fringe, but no proposal has been made to put those plans into practice. the chart tells the story.

forest service says about 150 lightning strikes at the area since tuesday which led to over a dozen fires being ignited. you can track all of the fires burning in our state right now. just go to abc7new the abc 7 bay area wildfire tracker. the city of san jose might create its own electricity service. san jose power would not be the same as san jose clean energy, which started back in 2019. it is important to note the proposal would operate separately from pg&e. dustin dorsey explains. >> san jose wants to have the power over its own power. the city council is looking into creating san jose power, its a loan limited utility -- own limited utility company managed by the city. it could make up for the shortcomings pg&e has. >> pg&e has a lot of focus on rural areas and places with fire danger, and it might not have the resources in san jose to expedite those resources. i think it might be good in the future to offer an alternative. >> cohen is in favor of the exploration because early estimates found that residents could save between 15% and 25% on their bills and see more resiliency in lig

some of the caldor fire victims are filing claims against the us forest service, saying the federal agencyzzly flats in spite of what you see here. i love the people and i want to stay here. i hope that we're able to do that, though we don't have resources to rebuild at this time. a father and son are accused of causing the caldor fire. david smith and travis travis smith are charged with recklessly starting the fire that spread from el dorado county into amador and alpine counties. they've pleaded not guilty to all charges. let's schools across the state are struggling to hire more teachers. how the state superintendent is working to address that issue. then, why concerns about nepotism are being raised following the latest hiring of someone inside the alameda county district attorney's office. plus i can't sit back and watch people suffer. you have to jump in. it's all hands on deck. volunteer look for any possible ways to help survivors of the deadly maui wildfire. a live report from the area just minutes away from ktvu fox two news. this is mornings on two. welcome. to mornings on two

we actually have fema, the forest service, the coast guard all embedded with us.o be out doing the work. we want people to take those steps and get out early. if we need to, we'll go in and proactively remove people or rescue them. we have swift water rescue teams, high water vehicles positioned all over southern california. we've also moved millions of pieces of commodities into the region, so cots, blankets, food, water, in case we need to set up shelters. we really want to be on the front foot of this and that's what's happening now. we feel fairly confident that we're going to do it, but we just need a little help from the folks in our communities to help keep themselves safe as well so they don't become one more thing for first responders to do. >> thank you so much. brian ferguson, all the best. >> thank you so much. >>> coming up, new details in the trial of the man suspected in the stabbing deaths of four university of idaho students. bryan kohberger's attorneys are required to submit evidence for an alibi by september 8th. details straight ahead. good thi

some of the caldor fire victims are filing claims against the us forest service, saying the federal agencyi love the people and i want to stay here. i hope that we're able to do that, though. we don't have resources to rebuild at this time. a father and son are accused of causing the caldor fire. david smith and travis smith are charged with recklessly starting the fire that spread from el dorado county into amador and alpine counties, burning for months. the men have pleaded not guilty to the charges. they are expected in court next week. six people were rescued by boat in the south bay with the help of a drone, the san jose fire department said firefighters helped three adults and three children to safety after they got stranded in the alviso marina saturday night. the agency posted these images after the rescue showing scene two kids wrapped in blankets, a baby being handed off near the rescue camp. no injuries are reported. authorities have not said how the people ended up in the water. 549 this is about the time of the morning when things start to get a little bit busy at the bay brid

forest service, accusing the federal agency of failing to protect grizzly flats.d, the residents could sue. >>> 5:46 right now. no comment from president biden, after the justice department assigned a special counsel in the case of his son, hunter biden. >> scott mcgrew with us now. it seems no one is very happy about this new development. >> nobody. good morning to you. even the people calling for a special counsel are not happy. on friday, attorney general merrick garland announced he would elevate david weiss to special counsel. weiss is the same counsel who has been investigating the president's son for five years now. just a few months ago, a group of republican senators wrote the department of justice demanding weiss, who was brought into the job by then-president donald trump be elevated to special counsel, all signing their names. now that weiss is the special counsel, some of those same people say they're not satisfied. senator marsha blackburn of tennessee now saying merrick garland appointed david weiss as special counsel because he knows weiss will pro