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Prescribed burns aren’t always welcomed by communities, however. They generate smoke and sometimes spread out of control. In New Mexico last year, a prescribed fire by the Forest Service blew into a 340,000-acre inferno that destroyed hundreds of homes and became the largest in state history. It prompted Forest Service Chief Randy Moore to suspend all the agency’s planned burns for 90 days. Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal/Zuma

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☆ Firefighters Boost Use of Prescribed Burns in Bid to Prevent Massive Wildfires
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Jim Carlton | Photographs Andri Tambunan For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Colder, Faster, Riskier: Western Snowmelt Fuels a Big Rafting Season
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Jim Carlton | Photographs Andri Tambunan For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Cold water is such a concern that everyone has to wear a wetsuit. “When you get in really cold water, it can shock the body,” guide Claudia Wiese told the four occupants of her raft one day in early June. “So we just want to prevent that by getting in the water ahead of time, so you know what to anticipate.”Soon after, Mike McSweeney, 25, jumped in the frigid water and the guide asked his girlfriend, Kayla Gewecke, 24, to pull him back on the boat.

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☆ San Francisco Mall Turned Over to Lender as Downtown Struggles
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Jim Carlton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ White-Water Rafting Season in the West Set to Boom Following Record Snowfall
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Jim Carlton | Photographs Andri Tambunan For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Why These Cows Are Wearing Collars
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Jim Carlton | Photographs Elise Kirk For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Not many do, because electronic collars have been hung around their necks that give them a jolt if they try to cross one of the invisible fence boundaries created on a computer. Mushrush tracks a herd of cattle, from his laptop at the dinner table, as they graze at the neighboring Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.

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☆ Water Worries Prompt Arizona to Limit Growth in Phoenix Outskirts
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Jim Carlton | Eliza Collins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Western States Reach Agreement on Colorado River Cuts
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Jim Carlton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Virtual Fences for Cattle Find a Home on the Range
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Jim Carlton | Photographs Elise Kirk For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Nordstrom plans to close its Nordstrom Rack store on Market Street and its mall department store at Westfield San Francisco Centre. Photo: Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle/Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO— Nordstrom is closing two stores near downtown San Francisco, including one in a prominent indoor shopping mall, the latest blow to the city’s retail landscape. The closures also reflect the challenges that merchants face in key business districts in large cities across the country, as they deal with rising operating costs, concerns about crime, and foot traffic remaining well below prepandemic levels.

☆ Fire Sale: $300 Million San Francisco Office Tower, Mostly Empty. Open to Offers.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Peter Grant | Jim Carlton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Before the pandemic, San Francisco’s California Street was home to some of the world’s most valuable commercial real estate. The corridor runs through the heart of the city’s financial district and is lined with offices for banks and other companies that help fuel the global tech economy. One building, a 22-story glass and stone tower at 350 California Street, was worth around $300 million in 2019, according to office broker estimates.

☆ Record Western Snow Leaves Trail of Collapsed Buildings
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Jim Carlton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.—Charlene Crandall’s mobile home has taken a beating from all the snow this year: broken window, leaks in three rooms, a bent carport. She said she prevented even more damage by climbing atop the roof after every big snowfall and spending hours shoveling.

☆ California Braces for More Flooding When Record Snowpack Melts
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( Jim Carlton | Photographs Jennifer Emerling For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ALLENSWORTH, Calif.—Ray Strong looked up at the Sierra Nevada range in its magnificent mantle of snow—and frowned. “Once that water starts flowing, you can’t stop it,” said Mr. Strong, 66 years, as he mowed his lawn in early April in the flatlands of California’s Central Valley.

☆ California Could Face Cuts to Colorado River Usage Under Federal Proposal
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Jim Carlton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ California Snowpack Is Among the Highest Ever Recorded
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Jim Carlton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Surveyors from the California Department of Water Resources measured a snow field in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on Monday. California’s snowpack ranks as the biggest in at least 40 years, giving much needed relief to crippling drought but leaving many rural communities under threat of major flooding when the frozen bounty melts. Surveyors from the California Department of Water Resources on Monday conducted manual measurements of a snow field near Lake Tahoe, where they said the 126.5 inches was among the deepest since the hand tallies were first carried out more than a century ago. The water equivalent was 54 inches.

☆ California Governor Lifts Most Drought Restrictions on Water Use
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Jim Carlton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A flooded road in California’s Central Valley this week following winter storms. California Gov. Gavin Newsom lifted many of the state’s remaining drought restrictions, citing an unusually wet winter which has refilled most reservoirs, left the mountain snowpack at near record levels and eased, for now, fears of worsening economic malaise from the worst dry spell on record. The Democratic governor made the announcement Friday while touring flooded farm fields in the Central Valley north of Sacramento following a parade of storms which have pounded the Golden State for months. The state’s Department of Water Resources also said it would increase the amount of water it sends to cities to 75% of their allotments, up from a previous projection of 35%, this year.

☆ California to Transform San Quentin Prison Into Center Emphasizing Inmate Rehab
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Jim Carlton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

MARIN COUNTY, Calif.—California aims to turn San Quentin State Prison, one of the country’s oldest penal facilities, into a Scandinavian-style center for inmate rehabilitation that it hopes will become a new model for incarceration in America. Gavin Newsom said Thursday the storied institution, built in 1852 on the shores of San Francisco Bay, will be renamed the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and converted to focus on providing educational programs and other help for inmates making the transition back into society.

☆ California’s Levee System Under Strain After String of Storms
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Jim Carlton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Houses were inundated and vehicles submerged when the Pajaro River burst over a crumbling levee overnight Friday into Saturday. PAJARO, Calif.—When Andres Garcia was routed from his home as a child by a levee break in 1995, it was three decades after federal officials had first concluded the protection system for the Pajaro River was “inadequate.”Mr. Garcia, now 37, had to evacuate again last weekend when the still-vulnerable Monterey County levee ruptured another time, sending floodwaters gushing into this town of about 3,000 people—many of them Latino immigrants who work in the surrounding strawberry fields.

☆ In California, a Race to Capture the Water Before It Escapes
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Jim Carlton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

PETALUMA, Calif.—Neil McIsaac has something many other dairy farmers here don’t: a storm-runoff capture system that can provide backup water for his herd when local reservoirs go dry, as they did last year. Already, he and others involved in the project say it has proven its worth. It has captured 670,000 gallons so far this winter, enough to slake the thirst of his 700 cows for a month, Mr. McIsaac said.

☆ The Number of ATMs Has Declined as People Rely Less on Cash
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Jim Carlton | Photographs Nicholas Albrecht For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The slow move toward a cashless society is helping to send the ubiquitous ATM into decline around the U.S., presenting challenges for those who still largely rely on cash. After peaking at 470,000 ATMs in the U.S. in 2019, the number of machines has declined annually over the past few years to 451,500 at the end of 2022, according to data tracked by research firm Euromonitor International. The reason: Many people quit using cash during the pandemic and haven’t gone back, said Kendrick Sands, consumer finance research manager for the London-based firm.

☆ Strong Snowpack Results in a Boost to Water Supplies for California Farmers
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Jim Carlton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

California farmers have largely gone without allocated water during the past three years, the driest on record in the state. California farmers, strained by years of drought, will get the highest allocation of water since 2019 for the year, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said Wednesday. Much of the water California farmers rely on comes from the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which is corralled into reservoirs when it melts off in the spring and delivered by federal and state officials to irrigate crops. They had largely gone without during the past three years, the driest on record in the state. They now stand to get at least 35% of their contracted supplies.

☆ Lowriders, Stars of California Car Culture, Await the Return of Legal Cruising
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Jim Carlton | Photographs Jason Henry For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Robert Gutierrez was like a lot of California Latinos coming of age in the 1970s: He loved cruising the boulevard on weekend nights, in a 1972 tangerine Pontiac Grand Ville modified to ride low to the ground with hydraulics so it could bump up and down. On weekend nights, he joined thousands of others in processions of so-called lowrider cars, cruising back and forth along Story Road—with tunes like “Suavecito” wafting—on this city’s predominantly Latino east side.

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