It’s been three weeks since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, and a slew of executive actions carry potentially dramatic changes to local and state government in California. Dustin Gardiner is the co-author of POLITICO’s California Playbook and provides an update on how California is responding to the Trump Administration’s actions in the first weeks since the inauguration.

Western monarch butterflies have made their long annual migration to their overwintering sites along the California coast, and for almost three decades researchers and community volunteers have been keeping track of their numbers. But the most recent count shows a significant decline, with a peak population of just 9,119 butterflies observed, compared to roughly 200,000 the year prior. Isis Howard is a Conservation Biologist at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and talks about how these near-record-low numbers compare with years past, as well as ongoing efforts to bring the monarch population back.

The 23rd annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival begins this week in Nevada County. Eric Dunn is the festival’s director and joins us to talk about the many events scheduled around the films which start Thursday, Feb. 13 and run through Feb 23rd. We’ll also meet Kirk Keeler, the subject of the documentary film Half Life, which screens this Saturday at 2 p.m. followed by a panel discussion Sunday about being an activist for your own health moderated by Vicki Gonzalez.