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Park Fire Threatening Spring-Run Salmon | Breaking Down Housing Propositions 5 and 33 | Wildfire Website ‘The Lookout’


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How wildfires like the Park Fire are threatening California salmon. Two housing measures, Prop 5 and Prop 33, will be on the ballot in November. Finally, the local website “The Lookout” offers context and clarity to wildfire coverage in the region.

Park Fire Threatening Spring-Run Salmon
The Park Fire is California’s fourth-largest wildfire, and has burned over 420,000 acres across Northern California in more than two weeks. The fire is now threatening some of the last refuges of California’s iconic spring-run salmon in the Central Valley - a population that has already faced devastating declines in recent years. Carson Jeffres, Senior Research Ecologist at the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences joins Insight to talk about the dangers the fire poses to these fish, and whether they can still bounce back.

Breaking Down Housing Propositions 5 and 33
California’s shortage of affordable housing is an ongoing and well-documented crisis. Now, a pair of measures on the November ballot aim to ease this problem. Prop 5 would lower the threshold for bond borrowing, while Prop 33 would allow for more rent control measures. Sac State Public Policy Professor Robert Wassmer spoke with CapRadio Politics Reporter Megan Myscofski about the potential impact of these two propositions, and some of the challenges they might face ahead of the election.

Wildfire Website ‘The Lookout’
During the 2021 Dixie Fire, which burned across five counties in Northern California, Zeke Lunder found the amount of fire information available on the internet overwhelming and lacking in context. So he started The Lookout to help. Lunder is a pyrogeographer and the founder of Deer Creek Resources. He has been mapping wildfires and leading a crew for more than 20 years. He joins us to talk about the Park Fire, which is currently burning east of Chico.

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