Californians pay price of communing with nature
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Iain Blair lost a close friend to a devastating 1993 blaze in his rural Los Angeles canyon community.
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By Dania Akkad, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Jun. 9--Neighbors of one of the last pieces of undeveloped land in the city of Monterey are concerned that the stretch of dense pine forest along Highway 1 may be replaced with a high-density development.
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A little more than three months after California voters approved a measure allocating $3 billion in public funds for stem cell and related research, organizers are struggling with down-to-earth concerns.
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By Shelli Derobertis, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif.  Dec.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep.
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With water becoming increasingly precious in California, a rising number of farmers figure they can make more money by selling their water than by actually growing something.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 2--When it comes to saving many significant tracts of open space in the state -- land that should remain in its natural state to protect Connecticut's quality of life -- it's now or never.
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By Lisa Heyamoto, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 13--To stand on the corner of Emerald Vista and Feickert drives in Elk Grove and look up is to see a sight straight out of a nature show.
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SACRAMENTO -- This city believes an answer for global warming is growing on trees.
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California is enacting environmental legislation that could shape the U.S. auto market.
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By Therese Poletti, Michelle Quinn and Pete Carey, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ California is on the verge of blazing a new environmental path with the toughest restrictions in the nation on exotic clams, crabs and other nonnative aquatic species that harm river and bay environments, threaten water supplies and clog water pipes.
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California finds fault with the Bush administration's math on competing climate plans for cars.
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In a land where fortunes were spun   from gold, films and silicon chips, California's leaders   envisage a "greenrush" with their groundbreaking law to fight   global warming.
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By Tracy Harmon, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jan. 30--SALIDA -- The growing business of ecotourism or "wildlife watching," which annually generates more than $1 billion in the state's revenue, will be the focus of a Colorado Division of Wildlife meeting Wednesday.
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By Adam Liptak New York Times News Service  In the great traditions of the Old West, California deputizes bounty hunters to help enforce its environmental laws.
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By Scott Marshall, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep.