California has protected over one million acres of land and coastal waters since mid-2024, an area roughly equal to that of ...

California is closer to meeting its goal of conserving 30% of its lands and coastal waters by 2030, according to a report.

There was a time when the water under Nick Sahota’s Terra Bella farm was free and abundant, supporting tidy rows of pistachio trees and table grapes to supply Bay Area groceries like Costco ...

California’s use-it-or-lose-it system provides an incentive for them to report using more water than they actually do, or even to count the same use under more than one claimed water right.

The story of California’s water wars begins, as so many stories do in the Golden State, with gold. The prospectors who raced westward after 1848 scoured fortunes out of mountainsides using water ...

He sought to find a century-old historical site long discussed by Colfax residents but hidden by nature. Each time Wood ...

Land trusts throughout California work locally and in unison to create a network of protected private lands across the state. Federal agencies like the US Forest Service manage more than 45% of ...

There are about 40,000 people living in the five communities nestled under the area’s shadowed peaks. But most of them — around 70% — are white, while fewer than 2% are Black. Advertisement ...

California water officials said this week there's no truth to President Donald Trump's assertion that the U.S. military has entered California and “turned on the water.” Trump's comments, made ...

There’s a land trust ... their purpose is “to conserve California’s extraordinary land and water resources through a ... EPA puts on leave 139 employees who spoke out against policies under ...

A land trust is a nonprofit that conserves land by acquiring and stewarding land or through voluntary conservation agreements with landowners to protect their land’s conservation values. California’s ...