10 March 2010
Wednesday
Day of year: 69
Time: 16:39
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"I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood."
Bill Watterson
Author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.
National Geographic BEST pictures of 2009
Learn to Take Action Now to Prevent Summer Wildfires
Jackson, CA 02/09/10 - Many gardening chores are on hold during these winter months, so it is
a good time to think about your landscaping and ensure that you have
adequate defensible space around your home for fire safety. Source: Ledger-Dispatch
The Chipper Program is Back!
Have your brush and tree trimmings chipped FREE. The bigger the pile the better.
Please call the Foresthill Fire Protection District at 530-367-2465
from 9 am to 5 pm Mon-Fri or leave a message on our answering machine.
There may be a change for this program after June of this year, so if you
delay, you may have to pay.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday - 9 March
Compared to last month's whopper of a Patch Tuesday, this one is quite a small
one, especially given that there are no "Critical" patches coming. The exact
breakdown of the bulletins is as follows:
Source: ars technica
Foresthill PUD - Board of Directors Meeting
Wednesday 10 March 7:00 p.m.
Foresthill Public Utility District Office
24540 Main Street
367-2511
GENERAL ITEMS
- New Business
- Action Item: Accept Committee Report and approve Policy 6011 Facility Development and Appendixes A through D.
- Action Item: Accept Committee Report and approve Ordinance No. 10-01 "Connect Charges".
- Action Item: Approve Resolution No. 10-01 declaring election and requesting consolidation and election services by County Clerk.
- Action Item: Approve check in the amount of $449,318.71 to USDA Rural Development to pay off Loan #91-01.
- Accept request for modification to Policy No. 6030.38 "Annexation Fee".
- Action Item: Authorize application for $15,000.00 grant for study of District water rights.
- Action Item: Approve nomination of LAFCO Special Districts representative.
- Old Business
- Action Item: Approve request to Eco:Logic Engineers for $1,454 cost overrun on Water Rate Study.
- Review special counsel McMurchie's revised billing for development policy preparation and provide direction to staff.
Friends of the Foresthill Library Meeting
Thursday 11 March 6:30 p.m.
The second Thursday of every second month
Foresthill Library - Robin Guthrie
24580 Main Street
367-2785
Agenda
Old Business
- E-mail list for reminders and notifications
- Report on book sale
- Art show dates
- Separate excess books to be taken to fireman's garage sale
- Next meeting date-May 13th, 2010
- Book Bag project
- Review needs and purchases for Summer Reading Program
Update on new library site
Mother Lode Goldhounds Meeting
Friday 12 March 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Veterans Memorial Hall
100 East Street, Auburn
367-2891 - Leave Message
Click here to read the Mother Lode Goldhound's Newsletter for February 2010
a 14 page PDF file
Daylight Saving Time
Begins this Sunday 14 March
Also Time to Check your
Smoke Alarm Batteries
Accoustic Bluegrass Jam!!!
One Week Earlier this Month
Sunday 14 March 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Beecher Room in the Auburn Library
350 Nevada St., Auburn, CA
Contact: Roy & Tamra West 367-3414
Come to play or come to listen
Foresthill / Iowa Hill Fire Safe Council Monthly Meeting
Tuesday 16 March 5:30 p.m.
Fire District Admin Bldg
24320 Main Street
367-2465
Spring or Vernal
Equinox
Saturday 20 March - 10:32 a.m. PDT
Minutes of Our Foresthill Forum Meetings
Official Minutes of the February 1 Meeting
Draft Minutes of the March 1 Meeting (Not yet available)
Foresthill Residents Donate $ 4,337 to Burn Institute
Foresthill 02/24/10 - The Foresthill Volunteer Firefighter Association added an additional
amount to bring the total to $ 5,000 for the Firefighters Burn Institute in Sacramento.
Last year, in better economic times, the community donated $ 4,490. Thank you to
the members of the Foresthill community for their generosity.
Oldest Fire Engine in Foresthill Moves to the Blacksmith
Shop near the Museum
(Click image at left to view photos)
Foresthill 12/16/09 - The USA Fire Engine (1923) moved to its new home in the
Leroy Botts Memorial Park today. The moving crew included Larry Jordan, Fueload
Management, and his big truck; Troy Simester, President, Forest Hill Historical
Society; Gary Kirk, Fire Marshal, FFPD; Gary Hall
and Tyler Harkness, Directors, FFPD.
Foresthill Harvest Festival Photos
Hundreds of Photos from our Festival in October
Not All Drivers Pull Over in Emergencies
(Click to See Video)
From the California DMV Driver Handbook
EMERGENCY VEHICLES
You must yield the right-of-way to a police car, fire engine, ambulance,
or other emergency vehicle using a siren and red light. Drive as close
to the right edge of the road as possible and stop until the emergency
vehicle(s) has passed. However, don't stop in an intersection. If you are
in an intersection when you see an emergency vehicle, continue through
the intersection and then drive to the right as soon as you can and stop.
Emergency vehicles often use the wrong side of the street to continue on
their way. They sometimes use a loud speaker to talk to drivers blocking
their path. Yield to Emergency Vehicles. Traffic in Both Directions Must
Pull to the Right Edge of the Road and Stop.
2010 Amgen Tour of California Pro Cycling Race
to Cross Foresthill Bridge in the Early Afternoon
of Sunday 16 May
The Tour will begin in Nevada City, run through Grass Valley and Meadow Vista,
and then over the Foresthill Bridge to Cool and end at the Capitol in Sacramento.
Click image at left to see a video of the full Stage 1 path.
Sign Up for Project FeederWatch
Project FeederWatch is a winter-long survey of birds that visit feeders
at backyards and other locales in North America. FeederWatchers are
invited to help with an optional study to count males and females
separately for some species visiting feeders. The 2009-2010 season runs
from 4 November 2009 to 6 April 2010. From The Cornell Lab of
Ornithology.
Project FeederWatch Instructions PDF
Final Fire Stats Are In, and 2009 Was a Mild
Wildfire Season for California
San Jose 01/06/2010 - Despite enduring a third year of drought and some
major blazes in Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles counties,
California experienced a surprisingly mild wildfire year last year, according
to final tallies this week by the state's leading fire fighting agencies.
Source: SJ Mercury News
A Midday Nap Markedly Boosts the Brain's Learning Capacity
U. C. Berkeley 02/21/10 - New research
shows that an hour's nap can dramatically boost and restore your brain power.
Indeed, the findings suggest that napping not only refreshes the mind, but
can make you smarter. Source: EurekAlert - AAAS
The LHC will run at only half its maximum energy
for the next 18 months to two years
02/15/10 - This decision all but guarantees a new and major delay
in discovering new elementary particles - including the long-sought
Higgs boson, whose existence would account for why subatomic particles
have mass. Source: US News & World Report
UCLA Researchers Engineer Bacteria to Turn Carbon
Dioxide into Liquid Fuel
Los Angeles 12/12/09 - Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering
and Applied Science have genetically modified a cyanobacterium to consume carbon
dioxide and produce the liquid fuel isobutanol, which holds great potential as a
gasoline alternative. The reaction is powered directly by energy from sunlight,
through photosynthesis. Source: UCLA Newsroom
New Sierra Nevada Environmental License Plate
Campaign Launched
After years of planning, a new environmental license plate campaign for the Sierra
Nevada is being launched. Proceeds from the sale of specialty Sierra Nevada plates will
directly support projects that improve watershed health, reduce fire risk, protect
working landscapes for landowners, and promote recreation in the Sierra Nevada.
7,500 plates must be sold in one year before the DMV will issue plates.
Click here to order your personalized plate.
These plates also make unique gifts. Source: YubaNet
Getting Your Animals Out in an Emergency
Sadly, the devastating 49 Fire that swept through north Auburn in late
August affected not only homes and residents, but many pets who lived
in the fire zone. Despite herculean efforts made by first responders
and Animal Services officers, at least 20 pets died, estimates Animal
Services Program Manager Mike Winters. The fire moved too swiftly to
save all the animals trapped by smoke and flames. Click image at left to
read more. Source: Placer County Animal Services Newsletter
Know the Impact of Your Purchases
Every dollar you spend is a vote for how you want the world to be.
Foresthill Library Google Web Site
Designed by Cathy Gerber
Garage and Book Sale, Silent Auction, Summer Programs,
Foresthill Friends of the Library (FFOL)
Report: Completed Fuels Treatments
in Angora Creek Worked as Designed
VALLEJO, Calif., Jun. 30, 2009 - The U.S. Forest Service Pacific
Southwest Region has just released a report statistically detailing the
effects of pre-fire forest fuel treatments on fire severity in the
wildland-urban interface areas burned by the Angora Fire in 2007.
Foresthill Fire Protection District
Cadet Program
Click logo at left to read Frequently Asked Questions about the
Foresthill Fire Cadet Program
Are We Safe From Fire? Protecting Idaho Communities
New video brings the concept of defensible space "home."
The lastest information on protecting your property - 47 minutes
Living With Fire - Watch the Video
What you can do to prepare your home for the fire season
5:24 minutes
From
Animated Image Shows Where Your Home is Vulnerable
to Burning Embers - From
New Wikipedia Article on Local Fire Safe Councils
Fire safe councils are grassroots community-based organizations which
share the objective of making California's communities less vulnerable
to catastrophic wildfire. Fire safe councils accomplish this objective
through education programs and projects such as shaded fuel breaks or
firebreaks which protect property and provide fire fighters with a
place to fight the oncoming fire.
KVMR Members Donate $2,150 for Reforestation
of the American River Complex Fires
26 February 2009 - Radio Station KVMR recently donated $2,150 to
the Forest Service for reforestation of the American River Complex
Fires which burned over 20,000 acres in June/July 2008 in the Tahoe
National Forest. This generous donation was made to the Plant-A-Tree
program for purchasing seedlings to be planted in the burned areas.
Fire Survivor Stories
From Conchow, near Yankee Hill and Paradise - Lake Oroville area
Survivors of this summer's fires break into three groups. There are people whose
financial condition and/or insurance coverage makes recovery just a matter of
hiring the contractors necessary to put their lives and homes back in order
Others can't afford, or simply can't emotionally handle the challenge of rebuilding
.
They leave. And finally, there are the people who can't imagine living anywhere else
regardless of the difficulties.
Potentially Harmful Chemicals Found in
Forest Fire Smoke
Researchers have detected common plant toxins that affect
human health and ecosystems in smoke from forest fires.
Foresthill weather, updated every 5 minutes
New California Weather Watch Network
Michael Anderson, State Climatologist with the California Department of Water Resources,
is looking for much-needed volunteers. He wants to get as many rain gauges as possible
in backyards all around the state to help forecasters and climatologists map California's
diverse rain patterns. "There is no substitute for accurate, local measurement of the
weather. This data will help not only short time-scale events like storms and floods,
but also serve as an added tool for recording and analyzing climate change.
Click here to read article on YubaNet's website in a separate page
Join the USA National Phenology Network
The USA NPN brings together citizen scientists, educators and students of all ages to monitor
the impacts of climate change on plants and animals. The network harnesses the power of
people and the Internet to monitor some 200 plant species found across the United States.
Phenology is the study of the seasonal timing of plant and animal life-cycle events such
as bird, fish and mammal migration and the leafing, blooming and fruiting of plants.
- Sign up to become an observer
- Select your site and your plants and register them online.
- Learn the phenophases for your plants and begin making observations.
- Report your observations online.
Fire Safe Books on our new Foresthill Library Page
On the Foresthill Library page, click on "Fire Safe Resources in the Foresthill Library".
The librarian has prepared a list of Books, DVDs and Videos available in our local library.
UC Davis - Arboretum All-Stars
The horticultural staff of the UC Davis Arboretum have identified
100 tough, reliable plants that have been tested in the Arboretum.
These plants are easy to grow, don't need a lot of water, have few
problems with pests or diseases, and have outstanding qualities in
the garden. Many of them are California native plants, support native
birds and insects and many are fire-resistant. These plants are available at selected retailers,
including
Eisley's Nursery, Auburn.
Pictured above is the Chinese fringe tree - Chionanthus
retusus.
Sierra Nevada Yard & Garden
A Homeowner's Guide to Landscaping in the Sierra
The Sierra Nevada Alliance presents a new, first of its kind resource helping Sierra homeowners
create a beautiful yard and garden that guards against wildfire, needs little maintenance,
flourishes with native and adapted plants, exists in harmony with wildlife, and protects and
conserves Sierra water-in other words, a Sierra friendly yard and garden.
WUI Products Handbook - New Building Codes 07/08
Starting January 2008, the new 2007 California Building Code (CBC) becomes effective. For
products to be used in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI), there are some regulations that
required building products to comply with specific standards. In an effort to provide the
home owners, industries, designers, local fire and building officials a readily list of
"compliance WUI products", the State Fire Marshal is publishing this "WUI Products Handbook".
Full Text of Public Resource Code 4291
Full Text of Senate Bill 1595
The Mission of Our Fire Safe Council
The mission of the F/I Fire Safe Council is to protect natural resources, human life and
property improvements by mobilizing our community to make their homes and neighborhoods
fire safe.
The Council brings together the private sector and Local, State, and Government Agencies
expertise and resources to speak as one voice for the community on fire prevention.
Be a part of the solution - join today! We meet the third Tuesday of every month at
5:30 p.m. at the Foresthill Fire District Headquarters, 24320 Main Street, Foresthill.
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