Regulations, cuts reshaped strategy
By Onell R. Soto, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
November 3, 2008
San Diego County’s landscape is meant to burn, though not necessarily in the way it has twice this decade when more than a half-million acres were blackened, thousands of homes were destroyed and 27 people died.
Before the Spanish arrived in the 1700s, Indians used [...]

Posted on November 3rd, 2008 by hunwut
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By Shadi Rahimi, Today correspondent
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - After 19 years of hosting a “green” festival, the 2008 Bioneers Conference hosted its first-ever “indigenous tent” this year.
Bioneers founders Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons referred to indigenous peoples as “the world’s original bioneers” in the program and said they were “deeply honored” to collaborate with the [...]

Posted on November 3rd, 2008 by hunwut
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By SARAH KINGSBURY - Staff Writer
11/02/2008
CHICO — American Indians worked with researchers, universities and Forest Service workers at a conference Saturday to improve relations between indigenous people and their communities.
The California Indian Fair for Partnerships in Research featured speakers and panels that pointed out how government agencies tend to shut American Indians out of the [...]

Posted on November 2nd, 2008 by hunwut
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More than 10,000 oaks in S.D. County affected
By Mike Lee, STAFF WRITER
October 25, 2008
Bugs and diseases are killing trees at an alarming rate across the West, from the spruce forests of Alaska to the oak woodlands near the San Diego-Tijuana border.
Several scientists said the growing threat appears linked to global warming. That means tree mortality [...]

Posted on October 25th, 2008 by hunwut
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Calif. Indians donate $1 million
The Associated Press
FLAGSTAFF - The Havasupai Tribe, hit by flooding that shut down the lifeline of the community, is eager to have visitors return to its reservation deep in a gorge off the Grand Canyon.
About 100 tribal members have been working since mid-August to clear debris from a campground and the [...]

Posted on October 24th, 2008 by hunwut
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By Bill Manson | Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008
San Diego River? “There is no San Diego River,” says Pete Cuthbert. “What you’re dangling your toes in is the Colorado River, the Sacramento River, the Feather River - but not the San Diego River.”
“Not the San Diego River…?”

Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by hunwut
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By Robert Gough
Oct 17, 2008
Last week, The New York Times covered two stories outlining the need of two American governments to acquire equity in contemporary economic development enterprises: One was about the federal government’s response to the need for equity in $700 billion national bank bailout and the other was about a tribal government’s response [...]

Posted on October 17th, 2008 by hunwut
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By Onell R. Soto, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
EAST COUNTY - A golden eagle with kidney problems is recovering at a La Mesa veterinary clinic after it was rescued Saturday night on the Viejas Indian Reservation.
The bird is expected to be released on the reservation once it is healthy enough to hunt.

Posted on September 29th, 2008 by hunwut
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Numbers expected to increase quickly
By Ed Zieralski, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
September 12, 2008
John Cassidy was close enough at El Capitan Reservoir to take a picture of them. Scott Rushing motored up on them at the shoreline, getting a clear view of a couple of 125-to 150-pounders.
Those wild hogs that have been rumored to be rooting around [...]

Posted on September 12th, 2008 by hunwut
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Rare bison at Camp Pendleton studied to determine herd’s purity
By Mike Lee, STAFF WRITER
September 7, 2008
An unusual donation from the San Diego Zoo to Camp Pendleton may turn out to be more precious than anybody realized at the time.
In the early to mid-1970s, zoo officials gave the base 14 bison because they didn’t have enough [...]

Posted on September 7th, 2008 by hunwut
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