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Climate Change/Energy
Video: Improving the Health of California’s Freshwater Ecosystems
March 1 2021
California’s freshwater ecosystems are in poor health, and the current approach for managing them is not working. Jeff Mount, senior fellow at the PPIC Water Policy Center, describes a path for improving their condition to protect the benefits they bring.
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Smoothing the Bumps in the Road to Ecosystem Restoration
February 22 2021
California’s environmental permitting system was developed to prevent bad things from happening to ecosystems, but it often slows efforts to do good things, too. We talked with a group of experts about how to make the process more efficient and effective.
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Video: The Path to Healthy Headwater Forests
February 16 2021
The worst wildfire year in California history prompted new efforts to manage Sierra forests to improve their resilience to fire and drought. A panel of experts discussed ways to increase the pace and scale of management to restore forest health.
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Video: A Conversation with Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis
February 10 2021
Lieutenant Governor Kounalakis talks with PPIC’s Mark Baldassare about state efforts to combat COVID-19 and address the economic impact of the pandemic.
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Accounting for a Decade of Headwater Forest Management
February 8 2021
As California accelerates management of headwater forests to reduce wildfire risk, understanding past efforts is useful. Yet data on such work is lacking. PPIC did a basic accounting of the past decade of forest management, which has lessons for going forward.
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