Podcasts about Feather River

In honor of International Women's Day, we bring you a special episode of the Beyond Listening Podcast. Today, we celebrate the power, resilience, and wisdom of women by hosting five extraordinary guests who have courageously walked their unique paths in the world. Each of these women brings a powerful story of leadership, perseverance, and strength.Guests:Dr. Mona Armijo (Florida, USA) – A trailblazer working with Military SEALs, one of the few women among these honorable men.Mossy Kilcher (Alaska, USA) – The eldest daughter of the iconic homesteading family featured on Discovery Channel's Alaska The Last Frontier.Michelle Duval (Sydney, Australia) – Founder of Marlee, a pioneering global AI company.Liesl Coleman (Oregon, USA) – Leader at The Curry Watershed Partnerships in Curry County Oregon.Dr. Tjanara Goreng Goreng (Australia) – A First Nations Australian leader, joining from India, where she is engaged with a women's university dedicated to UN peacekeeping efforts.This episode explores the many facets of womanhood, identity, community, and the sacred connections that women forge. Our guests share their personal journeys, reflecting on resilience, courage, leadership, and the evolving roles of women across cultures. We also discuss the importance of psychological safety, inner strength, and the transformative power of feminine leadership in today's world.Join us in celebrating International Women's Day by listening, sharing, and contributing to this vital conversation. We invite you to be part of this global celebration by joining our free International Women's Day online gathering on March 8th at 9 AM PST. Share your story, listen to others, and connect in a powerful community of women and allies.Key Takeaways:The energy within a circle of women is profoundly powerful.Women often carry the weight of their communities and families.Personal journeys are interconnected, shaping identities and experiences.Spirituality can play a significant role in self-discovery and resilience.Women's voices and stories contribute to a larger, evolving narrative.Connection to nature provides solace and a sense of belonging.Sharing experiences empowers and uplifts others.Diversity in women's perspectives enriches collective wisdom.Recognizing the sacredness of womanhood strengthens individual and communal identity.Community support is essential for growth, healing, and transformation.LinksCelebrating Women's Stories: A listening circle for International Women's Day Register hereWalking Wild on the Feather River; a retreat for women walking their path in the worldMore information hereMossy Kilcher: Wikepedia and a short film on youtube with herMichelle Duval: LInkedin. and her organization, Marlee website and you can see her on a previous episode of our podcast hereLiesl Coleman: Her bio on the website and the website of the organization she has run and built for the last 20 years or more, Curry Watershed PartnershipDr Tjanara Goreng Goreng: LInkedin and her website here and you can see her on our podcast hereDr Mona Armijo: LInkedin and an interview about her book here

An Arizona man was arrested in connection with the Feather River Adventist School shooting last month. Butte County Sheriff's Office says Jesse Kitagawa Jr. illegally sold the gun used by the shooter. Also, Butte County supervisors voted to extend a deadline for property owners to apply for debris removal, and a Chico man died of an overdose while staying at Safe Space Winter Shelter on Sunday.

In this episode, we follow the gripping journey of Steve Acosta and his brother Simon as they venture out for a day of Steelhead flyfishing on California's Feather River. What begins as a serene escape quickly turn's into a fight for survival when their drift boat capsizes, leaving one brother struggling beneath the surface. Join us as we recount their terrifying experience and the lessons learned from the river and the importance of life jacket safety.Steve's website: acostaflyfishing.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An expert explains what ghost guns are and what is being done to stop them. Also, PG&E will increase rates by around $3 a month in January and again in March, and California has an ambitious goal to make the state carbon-neutral by 2045.

Oroville gunman Glenn Litton visited Chico Oaks Adventist School six months ago in June to discuss enrolling a student at the school. Also, the much-awaited Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act has been passed, and Chico City Council members will discuss the next steps in implementing red light cameras at intersections around town.

Depuis les débuts du cinéma, le bruitage fait partie des effets spéciaux qui permettent de rendre un film plus spectaculaire. L'un d'entre eux porte le nom de "cri de Wilhelm".Ce cri de douleur et d'angoisse est proféré par le personnage quand il est touché par une balle ou une flèche (dans les westerns) ou quand il tombe d'une falaise ou du haut d'un immeuble.Comme de tels événements se produisent souvent à l'écran, ce cri est l'un des sons les plus connus du cinéma.Les spectateurs entendent le "cri de Wilhelm" depuis des décennies. Il a été nommé ainsi, pour la première fois, dans un western de Gordon Douglas, "La charge à Feather River", tourné en 1953.Dans ce film, le fameux cri est poussé par le soldat Wilhelm, touché par une flèche. Il est interprété par l'acteur Ralph Brooks, mais ce n'est pas sa voix qu'on entend. Il est en effet doublé, pour ce cri, par Sheb Wooley.Celui-ci est plus connu comme chanteur de country que comme comédien. En tant qu'acteur, il s'est d'ailleurs surtout consacré au doublage. Mais sa notoriété, il la doit avant tout au "cri de Wilhelm", dont on lui reconnaît généralement la paternité.En fait, cette exclamation avait déjà été entendue dans deux films, à commencer par "Les aventures du capitaine Wyatt", un film de 1951, réalisé par Raoul Walsh, avec Gary Cooper dans le rôle principal.Mais c'est le western de Gordon Douglas qui consacre le "cri de Wilhelm" de manière définitive. Ce hurlement de douleur est d'ailleurs, inclus, dès ce moment-là, dans la bibliothèque sonore de Warner Bros, l'un des grands studios de cinéma américains.Depuis lors, le cri a été redécouvert, dans les années 1970, par un ingénieur du son travaillant sur le film de George Lucas, "La guerre des étoiles". Le cri a ensuite été entendu à maintes reprises au cinéma, notamment dans les autres films de la saga "Star wars". Depuis sa création, il aurait été poussé plus de 560 fois au cinéma. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Twas an honor and privelege to welcome legendary DJ/producer/multi-instrumentalist GREYBOY to Episode 079!! A career highlight for this program to facilitate a wide-reaching, ever-rare interview with the man born Andreas Stevens, who's pioneering 90's work on Ubiquity Records set, raised, and re-raised the bar for West Coast acid jazz and trip-hop. Greyboy's solo canon is long revered for blurring the lines between hip-hop, funk, soul, jazz, and beyond; he's also the visionary behind rare-groove ragers The Greyboy Allstars. Released June 2024, Greyboy's latest LP Word On the Street represents an artistic rebirth and musical revolution tied to the broadening of his palette and a personal evolution. 0:00 - episode preview 3:30 - sponsor - For The Funk Of It Fest 5:45 - sponsor - Fete du Void 8:20 - The Upful Update 12:30 - introducing GREYBOY 16:30 - interview a/ Greyboy [90 min] 1:46:30 - introducing Spencer from FTF Fest 1:49:00 - chatting w/ Spencer [17min] 2:05:00 afterglow x Vibe Junkie JAMZ 1988 DMC Regional Champion. Recovering midcentury modernist. Responsible for wrangling together esteemed boogaloo bandits The Greyboy Allstars, hence their moniker and sonic blueprint. Over the course of three decades, DJ Greyboy has worked with musical and cultural luminaries that span genre and generation, his music oscillates between styles yet remains consistently Era Correct. Grey shares a few of his leftfield non-musical passions that are sure to surprise even the most attentive fans of his timeless tunes. During this sprawling 90-minute conversation, Greyboy was stoked to explore the inspirations, losses, and motivations that gave us his most recent LP, Word On the Street. Plus unpacking seminal releases Greybreaks, Freestylin', Land of the Lost, and reflections on crucial collaborators. Grateful that Grey was such a open book, and seemed quite happy to hop in the sidehack and bomb the hill down memory lane. Give Thanks for Greyboy. After wrapping with Grey, we check in with Spencer from For The Funk Of It Festival, slated for Aug. 6-9 in NorCal, to get the 411 on this year's throwdown on the Feather River. Vibe Junkie JAMZ - GREYBOY: "Unwind Your Mind", "Grey Royale", "Word on the Street" Dwell Magazine article about Greyboy's house restoration Greyboy - Word On the Street album on BandCamp Check out  FOR THE FUNK OF IT FESTIVAL  August 9-11 in NorCal Our friends Fete du Void, Oct. 3-6 in Oakdale, LA EMAIL the SHOW PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Theme Song: "Mazel Tov"- CALVIN VALENTINE

Stampede kokanee; Lake Oroville trout and salmon; Feather River shad; Tommy Gomes-host of "Fish Monger"; Delta stripers; Fishing Tamales Bay; Bridgeport Reservoir trout; Upper Twin Lake trout & kokanee.

Larger Pardee kokanee; Feather River shad; Tahoe bear incident; Delta stripers; Eagle Lake opener; Berryessa top water bass.

Lake Almanor browns & salmon; Clear Lake crappie, bass and Big catfish; Berryessa trout & salmon; New Melones kokanee; Folsom Lake salmon & trout; More upriver & Feather River stripers.

This is a listener suggestion from Rachel.Please listen to this story with care as it contains detailed, graphic crime scene evidence.This is a case of a grisly quadruple murder that happened in April of 1981 at the Keddie Resort in the tiny northern California town of Keddie, California. Many years before this horrific night, the resort was considered idyllic & included a rustic hotel, bar & restaurant nestled in the woods along the Feather River. It was founded in 1910 as a getaway where 33 cabins were available for rental & vacationers would fish for trout in the rivers or walk the beautiful trails. In its heyday, the Keddie Lodge Restaurant was packed with patrons who dined on barbecued bear ribs & sherry-basted racoon steaks. Allison tells us the rest of this story.Ad info: Try SmartLabels click hereYouTube for this story: https://youtu.be/BkhlT0HjR6wOver 50 bonus episodes! Support our little mom & pop podcast...Patreon (best for those who listen on Spotify or other 3rd party podcast apps):https://www.patreon.com/crimeandcoffeecoupleApple Subscriptions (easiest for those who listen on Apple Podcasts):https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crime-and-coffee-couple-true-crime-podcast/id1588624631All our links (Instagram, TikTok, Merch, etc):https://linktr.ee/crimeandcoffeeNew Facebook Group to discuss episodes:www.facebook.com/groups/crimeandcoffeecouplepodcast/Frownies facial patches Allison uses with discount:https://www.Frownies.com/discount/Crime10Support the showReferences available at https://www.crimeandcoffeecouple.com a few days after this podcast airs.Case Suggestions Form: https://forms.gle/RQbthyDvd98SGpVq8Hey, you made it this far! You're a great reader! :) Remember to subscribe to our podcast in your favorite podcast player. Do it before you forget!If you're listening on Spotify please leave us a 5-star review, and leave a comment on today's episode!If you're on an iPhone, review us on Apple Podcasts please! Scroll to the bottom of the page and hit the stars ;)We appreciate you more than you know.Reminder:Frownies facial patch discount:https://www.Frownies.com/discount/Crime10Support us and become a Patron! Over 30 bonus episodes:https://www.patreon.com/crimeandcoffeecouplePodcast Intro and Outro music:Seductress Dubstep or TrippinCoffee by Audionautix http://audionautix.comCreative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

Josh Hart of Feather River Action! in Plumas county joined me to speak about US Forest Service plans for an emergency thinning of forests in this north east part of so-called California and which is threatened to be reproduced in other Federal and private lands in the name of fire prevention around the country. We talk about the claims, motivations and alternative proposals of activists, scientists and community members and the upcoming Lost Sierra Forest-Climate Action Camp happening in the area at the end of May 23-29th. Here are a few more groups working on the issue: http://featherriverwatershedalliance.org/ http://johnmuirproject.org/

Bob announces the Clear Lake bass tournament sweepstakes winner. After that, New Melones trout & kokanee; Clear Lake crappie; Lake Amador rainbows; Whiskeytown kokanee; American River steelhead; and Feather River steelhead.

In this final hour Bob interviews folks about Delta sturgeon; New Melones trout & kokanee; Feather River stripers; Camanche trout; Pardee trout; Lake Almanor brown trout; Delta black bass and stripers; Whiskeytown kokanee/Shasta bass; and Berryessa trout. Viewers also hear about the Wingshooters veteran's event.

Bob Simms chats about the Columbia River Basin steelhead & upcoming salmon with Clancy Holt; Bob goes over Berryessa conditions for trout, and talks Pardee rainbows; Feather River steelhead; Camanche crappie; New Melones rainbows; Sacramento River (Redding) rainbows; Whiskeytown kokanee; Shasta bass; and American River steelhead.

The Nor Rel Muk Wintu Nation in Trinity County now owns and takes care of 78 acres of ancestral land. The tribe is also hoping to win their decades-long fight for federal recognition. Also, officials estimate nearly 2.5 million pounds of coal spilled into the Middle Fork of the Feather River after a train derailed Sunday, and more than a hundred people gathered at the Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology yesterday to remember the museum's namesake.

Applications are now open for prescribed fire training in Plumas County. A train derailed Sunday, sending coal into the Feather River and today is the last day of the annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Summit and Day of Action.

Part of Highway 70 in the Feather River Canyon is still closed after a rockslide earlier this week. Also, cars and trucks made and sold in California would have to be equipped with technology preventing them from traveling more than 10 mph over the speed limit under a new bill in the state Legislature, and Californians have relied on the hotline to get same-day prescriptions of Paxlovid — the medication that treats COVID-19. When the hotline shuts down, this easy access will come to an end too.

Delta sturgeon; Camanche and New Melones trout; Sacramento River (Redding) steelhead; New Melones bass tournament winner; Feather River steelhead; Lake Amador trout; Berryessa trout. The KFBK Outdoor Show.

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POLITICO hosts an evening with Gov. Gavin Newsom. A Del Paso Heights nonprofit seeks to reverse the growing fentanyl crisis. How this year's “Big Melt” has been a game-changer for the Feather River. Conversation with Gov. Newsom Gov. Gavin Newsom has become one of the loudest and spirited voices for the Democratic Party. And on a national stage, Newsom has seared his ideological and political differences with Republican governors. But a one-on-one sit down about issues facing Californians is difficult to come by. At the California Museum, Newsom took part in an interview about all things politics in the Golden State. POLITICO California Bureau Chief Christopher Cadelago discusses his live conversation with Gov. Newsom in Sacramento.   Del Paso Heights Nonprofit Seeks to Reverse Growing Fentanyl Crisis As the number of fentanyl-related overdoses skyrockets in Sacramento County, staff and volunteers who perform outreach with the unhoused community are digging deeper to get to the root of the drug epidemic. CapRadio's Health Care reporter, Kate Wolffe, joins us on Insight today to talk about some simple, yet powerful questions they are asking to shed light on what may have led to their drug use and get them the mental health help they need. Feather River's Big Melt' California's Feather River may not be one of the more well-known, but its importance to the overall health of the state is immeasurable.  This past rain and snow season proved to be a game-changer for just about everything the river impacts, including recreation, farming, hydroelectric production and the state's salmon population. Joining us on Insight are San Francisco Chronicle Natural Resources reporter, Kurtis Alexander and Photographer and Multimedia Producer, Carlos Avila Gonzalez, who recently reported on how this year's “Big Melt” has been a game-changer for the Feather River.  You can read and experience their reporting here.

Jeannette Hanby grew up in a paved-over Southern California “wanting to know how to stop humans from ruining the planet.”After a high school teacher exposed her to philosophy, Jeannette majored in physiological psychology at UC Berkeley before working with abandoned and abused children in Los Angeles County.Emotionally exhausted, she found refuge in Big Sur. (Sound familiar!)Her new book, "Feathered Canyons," illustrated by her partner David Bygott, reflects on her pivotal time in Big Sur in the early 60s as well as her stint with a gold-mining crew on the Feather River in the High Sierras.After you have listened to this podcast there's a good chance you'll want know more! Fear not : WELCOME TO THE LIBRARY ON OCTOBER 8 where you'll meet Jeanette and David for a presentation and booksigning.WATCH A VIDEO ABOUT FEATHERED CANYONS: CLICK HERE!IMPORTANT LINKS:EVENT AT THE LIBRARY ON OCTOBER 8David and Jeanette on the webBooks by David and JeanetteMy Nepenthe by Romney SteelePodcast with Pico IyerPodcast with Obi Kaufmann______Support the show_________________________________________________This podcast is a production of the Henry Miller Memorial LibraryBig Sur, CAFaceBookInstagramLet us know what you think!SEND US AN EMAIL!

On the morning of Feb. 7, 2017, two electricians were working on a warning siren near the spillway of Oroville Dam, 60 miles north of Sacramento, when they heard an explosion. As they watched, a giant plume of water rose over their heads, and chunks of concrete began flying down the hillside toward the Feather River. The dam's spillway, a concrete channel capable of moving millions of gallons of water out of the reservoir in seconds, was disintegrating in front of them. If it had to be taken out of service, a serious rainstorm, like the one that had been falling on Northern California for days, could cause the dam — the tallest in the United States — to fail.Kory Honea, the sheriff of Butte County, which includes the dam and the town it is named for, first heard that something was wrong from Dino Corbin, a local radio personality, who called him at his office: “Are you aware there's a hole in the spillway?” Around the same time, one of the sheriff's dispatchers received a confusing message from California's Department of Water Resources, which owns the dam, saying it was conducting a “routine inspection” after reports of an incident.At the dam, department officials closed the gates at the top of the spillway to prevent any more of its concrete slabs from being lost in what an independent forensic report prepared after the incident described as “a sudden, explosive failure.” The flow of water stopped. The rain, however, didn't.In the six years since the near-failure of the Oroville Dam, dam operators across the country have begun to reassess the structures under their control, looking for hidden weaknesses: the cracks in the spillway, the hillside that crumbles at the first sign of water. That work is necessary, but it may not be enough to prevent the next disaster. Bigger storms are on the way.This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.

Feather River stripers; prospects for Stampede kokanee; Scott Leysath-South America Delta stripers; Bodega Bay rockfish/lings; Tamales Bay stripers/halibut; American River trout opener; access to Hell Hole macks; French Meadows rainbows

fishing in the city; Folsom Lake bass; Finding beef from small ranches Delta stripers; Eagle Lake conditions; Feather River stripers

Feather River stripers; Shasta Derby update; Colusa stripers; New Melones bass; Lake Almanor rainbows and browns

New Melones trout/kokanee; Delta tournament fisherman; Delta stripers Feather River stripers

What happens when a traditional Irish song is rewritten about zombies? And I have CDs!!!! If you didn't say, “You have Cds…”, you'll find out why it's important. It's kind of funny. This is Sci Fi Pub Songs & Stories #268. 0:16 - “Isn't It Grand Boys” from Happy Songs of Death 4:09 - WELCOME TO SCI FI PUB SONGS & STORIES This is the audio edition of my newsletter. I am Marc Gunn. I'm a rhythm and folk Celtic musician living in Atlanta, Georgia. I play traditional Irish and Scottish drinking songs. I'm also a songwriter. I write songs inspired by Celtic culture as well as pop culture, things like Lord of the Rings, Firefly, Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who and more. If you're new to the show, please subscribe. You can do that PubSong.com/free or even better or you can subscribe and download all of my songs in this show. Just send me an email.  pubsong@ celtfather You will get an auto responder with a link to download this month's songs. You will also get that subscribe link. It's quick and easy. While you're emailing me to get your free EP, let me know what you're doing while listening to this episode. We kicked off the show… 5:04 - WHAT'S NEW STORY I really should talk more about the stuff I sell in my store. But it feels uncomfortable to do so. That's one of the reasons if you go to any of my live shows, and I say, “I have Cds”. Audience members will shout “you have Cdddsss?!” It's a little gimmick I use to draw attention to my merch. And it's really catchy. I was listening to the last episode of the podcast about writing drinking songs. While I talked about my song “The Cat Came Back… the Cat's Perspective,”. It's from my C-D… And then I paused, just like I do at live shows. When I listened to the episode, I responded, “You have CDs…” It got me thinking. Could we do that same thing through a podcast? I don't know. But we're gonna try. We're gonna make this podcast into a sort of an interactive drinking game. Each time I mention CDs, your job is to audibly respond, “you have CDs…” 6:25 - UPCOMING SHOWS APR 1-9: Sherwood Forest Faire, Paige, TX APR 6: Dragon Con Filk Music Concert with Brobdingnagian Bards @ 7 PM CST APR 20: Cat Drinking Songs on Bandcamp @ 7 PM EAST APR 21-23: Jordan Con, Atlanta, GA APR 29. The Lost Druid Earth Day Biking Concert, Avondale Estates, Ga @ 6:30-9:30 PM JUN 3-10: Celtic Invasion Vacations, County Mayo, Ireland 9:24 - The Celtic Kitchen Party “Covid-19 Shanty” from Last Call 11:11 - COMMENTS I don't get a ton of feedback for this show. But if you send an email to pubsong@celtfather with a short comment about the show… or just mentioning CDs that you love, that's a great way for us to interact and have more of a conversation. In fact, if you need a starter, I'd love it if you would grab your phone. Go to your voice recorder app. Say, “You have Cds”. Then email it to me. Marisa Halvorson emailed: "Hello Marc! I have been listening to your songs practically nonstop this St. Paddy's season (I'm in NOLA and work on Magazine street so season it is) I had to work on the day the Irish Channel parade rolled and definitely enjoyed it more with your songs keeping me company while locked in my building by parade goers. Thank you for always keeping me company and my spirits up with your music." Kennedy Johnson emailed: "Happy St Patricks Day to you Marc.  I hope you and your family are well on this day of Green & Orange

Guy talks to Hogan Brown about his music/band, guiding, fly tying, Cal Bass Union and the American Fly Fishing Trade Association Hogan grew up on the Lower Yuba River as an only child. He had a bug collection and really liked catching fish with imitations of those bugs. This didn't make Hogan the coolest kid growing up. It was a good thing he got over it and persevered. He decided to start rowing a drift boat while guiding the lower Yuba, instead of living in the woods being bitter and resentful. Living in Chico, California, Hogan now guides for anything that swims. From trout, striped bass, carp and steelhead, he is at home in a drift boat, power boat or poling a mud flat. From guiding over 20 years on the Lower Yuba River, Feather River, and Lower Sacramento River for stripers, trout, steelhead, shad, carp and bass, this has made him one of the most versatile and experienced guides in Northern California. His trout, bass, carp, and striper flies have become staples in his home state of Northern California and throughout the West. Hogan is a Scott Fly Rods, Lamson - Waterworks Reels, Stealth Craft Boats, Air Flo Fly Lines, and Echo Rods Pro along with being a Simms and Costa Del Mar Sunglasses Ambassador. Hogan is also co-founder of the California Bass Union dedicated to Developing, Sharing, and Growing Fly Fishing for bass in his home state of California. Hogan is also a connoisseur of fine ales and fermented grains, a home gardener, die-hard San Francisco Giants baseball and Notre Dame Football fan, along with being a husband and father to two young boys.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guy talks to Hogan Brown about his music/band, guiding, fly tying, Cal Bass Union and the American Fly Fishing Trade Association Hogan grew up on the Lower Yuba River as an only child. He had a bug collection and really liked catching fish with imitations of those bugs. This didn't make Hogan the coolest kid growing up. It was a good thing he got over it and persevered. He decided to start rowing a drift boat while guiding the lower Yuba, instead of living in the woods being bitter and resentful. Living in Chico, California, Hogan now guides for anything that swims. From trout, striped bass, carp and steelhead, he is at home in a drift boat, power boat or poling a mud flat. From guiding over 20 years on the Lower Yuba River, Feather River, and Lower Sacramento River for stripers, trout, steelhead, shad, carp and bass, this has made him one of the most versatile and experienced guides in Northern California. His trout, bass, carp, and striper flies have become staples in his home state of Northern California and throughout the West. Hogan is a Scott Fly Rods, Lamson - Waterworks Reels, Stealth Craft Boats, Air Flo Fly Lines, and Echo Rods Pro along with being a Simms and Costa Del Mar Sunglasses Ambassador. Hogan is also co-founder of the California Bass Union dedicated to Developing, Sharing, and Growing Fly Fishing for bass in his home state of California. Hogan is also a connoisseur of fine ales and fermented grains, a home gardener, die-hard San Francisco Giants baseball and Notre Dame Football fan, along with being a husband and father to two young boys.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The California Report visits communities most affected by the recent storms, and shares insight into 2023's projected wildfire season. After a local weather update, KVMR's Steve Baker talks with Bill Drake about the upcoming Martin Luther King remembrance event in Grass Valley. Al Stahler reflects on a past flood caused when a levy burst along the Feather River, and we close with an essay Molly Fisk.

KVMR's Al Stahler recalls a past flood that took place in the mid-1980's, when a levy along the Feather River burst, leaving a housing development in Linda underwater.

Sac and Feather River salmon; prospects for waterfowl; Lower Yuba trout Delta striped bass; Oroville Salmon Festival; Berryessa bass; Folsom bass

Sacramento and Feather River salmon; Folsom Lk. trout; Scott Leysath-recipes; Lee Vining Creek trout; Saddlebag Lake & Lundy Lake trout; Delta stripers; American R. steelhead and stripers; Berryessa bass

One of the most popular and engaging Imagining Community KZFR Studio #416 musical creations featuring the music and curations of Jesi Naomi. With live portions recorded on the North Fork of the Feather River in Belden, California and Big Chico Creek on the Campus of Chico State. Originally aired April 2021 during Imagining Community's year-long series on water. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imagining-community/message

Feather River salmon; Lower Rogue R. salmon; Whiskeytown kokanee; Delta stripers; Bodega Bay salmon; Sacramento R. trout; Fall River trout

Feather River salmon; 10 lb Pardee brown; Scott Leysath-recipes; American River stripers; Delta stripers; Bodega Bay salmon/rockfish; Delta black bass; New Melones bass

Golden Gate salmon; SF Bay halibut/stripers; Scott Leysath-recipes; Delta stripers; Bodega Bay salmon; Feather River salmon

In 2017, America's tallest dam complex had partially, but catastrophically, failed. The Oroville Dam, located in northern California, left operators scrambling to figure out how to manage a main spillway failure, eroding secondary spillway, and a rising water level in the reservoir. Remember those tense days when America was riveted to the nightly news for the latest updates? Remember the engineers who calculated that Sacramento, which is in a geological basin, would be hip-deep in water if the Oroville complex collapsed? The thing is, this didn't make the nightly news - at least nothing more than five seconds of video and another ten seconds of narrative. But, that didn't mean Americans, Californians, and people near Oroville didn't have questions. They had a lot of questions. In fact, people across the world were thirsty for updates about Oroville - and they received them from Juan Browne. In this episode, Doc discusses Chapter 2: Face Validity, from his book, ‘The Velocity of Information - Human Thinking During Chaotic Times. He reads an excerpt about Juane Browne and the Oroville Dam and points out how there are reliable, organic journalists around us - and how we can responsibly break our own news to inform our communities and friends. David will reference pages 41-45 from The Velocity of Information. THE OROVILLE DAM. Completed in 1968, Oroville Dam was a showpiece of the California State Water Project. Located on the Feather River, east of the city of Oroville and 70 miles north of Sacramento, the earthen embankment dam was used for flood control, water storage, and hydroelectric power generation. The dam was modern and, until 2017, had an insignificant history. But as all structures, entropy took its toll. 2017 SPILLWAY FAILURE.  On February 8, 2017, during a routine water release, a large portion of the center spillway collapsed. With fears that continued use of the spillway could erode further toward the gates and completely collapse the structure, a decision was made to pass water over the emergency spillway. On February 11, 2017, Oroville Dam, America's tallest, at 770 feet, overtopped and damaged its emergency spillway for the first time in its history, forcing the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people. The unnatural disaster took about one billion dollars to repair and caused millions more in property damage. JUAN BROWN'S FIRST VIDEO OF THE DAM. “Just one day prior to the incident, on February 10, Browne made his first video about the dam. Fearing that the government would soon restrict air traffic over the site, Browne, a commercial pilot for American Airlines, got into his 1946 Luscombe 8A single-engine plane to offer the world the rarest of bird's-eye view. Browne used a GoPro Hero5 camera to shoot the video. He added narration and published it to his YouTube channel, @blancolirio, the next day. The video immediately went viral. It has since amassed more than 500,000 views. In the five-minute, ten-second video, Browne shows a command of the scene, the situation, and the possible consequences of the dam's failure. The view from 3,000 feet is intimate and dramatic. With no other planes in the sky, and no people at the site, the rarity of the vantage is apparent. One gets the feeling of being led on a backstage tour. Throughout, Browne's tone is even and informative, never breathless or excited. “That's the big concern going forward: how much erosion are we going to get?” Browne says at one point, summarizing the fears of his neighbors who were watching. That concern was justified. BROWNE BECAME THE TRUSTED SOURCE. Up in the air, seeking truth, and answering the questions that mattered to neighbors fearing for their futures is when things took off for Juan's YouTube Channel. He was granted special access to the dam complex to film his updates and to interview workers. When he appeared at state informational meetings, the audience sought his input as much as it did the engineers at the front table. “As the months-long repair effort went on, Browne continued his reports. Over time, he was perceived as an honest broker by the state and the engineering firm, and was allowed a unique level of access to the dam. “Nobody else was really doing it with this level of detail or interest,” Browne said. PEOPLE WANT THE FACTS. Juan also believes that is why the public responded so strongly. “There is a huge void, or a huge market for, just the facts,” Browne said. “People really responded to that, and it seems to be so lacking in today's modern infotainment industry. They just wanted the facts.” THREE LESSONS FROM JUAN. (A) See it for yourself, (B) You have not because you ask not, and (C,) Be curious, not cunning. SAFETY DOC WEBSITE, BLOG & BOOKS: www.safetyphd.com. The Safety Doc Podcast is hosted & produced by David P. Perrodin, PhD. This podcast and blog post represent the opinions of David P. Perrodin and his guests to the show. This is episode 179 of The Safety Doc Podcast published on 04-26-2022. Purchase Dr. Perrodin's Books: School of Errors – Rethinking School Safety in America. www.schooloferrors.com Velocity of Information - Human Thinking During Chaotic Times. www.velocityofinformation.com 

The Oroville dam is in the news. The earth-fill dam on the Feather River was the site of a press conference held today where Governor Gavin Newsom talked about how his administration plans to respond to the ongoing drought. The California News Service brings us a story about equity, and how Voting by mail reduced the racial gap in voting. After regional headlines and weather, Paul Emery talks with hydrogeologist Steve Baker about how the Salton Sea could factor heavily in the Golden State's transition to a fossil fuel free future.

A packed third hour where Bob gives us the update on Lake Berryessa trout, salmon, and kokanee, New Melones trout and kokanee, Whiskeytown kokanee, Feather River stripers with fly fishing, and Shasta bass and trout! CDFW lack of striped bass management and more worthless gun control laws to update you on.

A conversation with Dr. Beth Rose Middleton Manning (UC Davis) about water rights, hydroelectric infrastructure, easements, and conservation in California. Released April 1, 2022. 

Aly Yeoman - Aly was last seen leaving a friend's house who lived on Romero Street in Yuba City on March 30th. On April 4th, her 1998 Toyota Tacoma was found in a muddy orchard in Live Oak, California near the Feather River. The next day, her cell phone was also found. Resources in this episode: https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/timeline-disappearance-of-aly-yeoman/103-437838578 https://findingmissingpersons.blog/?tag=yuba-city https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1hhoaHNm2DTowOyfvg7jqmdjY6XY&hl=en_US&ll=39.275480233776506%2C-121.63067941906166&z=18 https://www.kcra.com/article/ransom-messenger-not-involved-in-disappearance-of-yuba-college-student-sutter-county-sheriffs-office-says/9253102 https://truecrimedaily.com/2017/05/10/missing-college-student-aly-yeoman-found-dead-in-feather-river-in-northern-california/  Like us on Facebook  Follow us on Instagram  Visit our website    

In the final part of a four-part episode, we continue to examine the negative environmental and cultural impact of dams, and the Indigenous-led movement to remove them. These dams, deemed as Weapons of Mass Destruction by Chief Caleen Sisk, have devastated Salmon populations and the communities whose histories have been in relationship with Salmon since time immemorial.Part IV ends this extended episode with a story of hope, sharing a ceremony for the return of salmon to Amah Mutsun waters after the removal of a small dam in Northern Santa Cruz County.Speakers: Carolyn Rodriguez (Amah Mutsun), Steven Pratt (Amah Mutsun), Elijah Catalan, Mike Grone, & Josh Thunder Little (Lakota).Credits:Audio engineering and editing by Daniel StonebloomAll interviews conducted and recorded by Martin Rizzo-MartinezSounds of Mill Creek flowing after the dam removal recorded and shared by Carolyn RodriguezMusic written, performed, and recorded by G. GonzalesThis podcast is supported by the California State Parks Foundation: https://www.calparks.org/Follow us on Twitter: @ChalColonialPodTo see Sempervirens Fund videos showing the dam removal, visit:https://vimeo.com/611886521 The Mill Creek Dam Comes Downhttps://vimeo.com/657201537 Removing a Dam, Restoring a WatershedFor further reading and to get involved, see the following:Bring the Salmon Home www.bringthesalmonhome.orgSave California Salmon https://www.californiasalmon.org/Reconnect Klamath https://reconnectklamath.org/Klamath River Renewal Corporation https://klamathrenewal.org/Run4Salmon - A prayerful journey led by Chief Caleen Sisk of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe to restore our salmon runs, protect our waters, and our indigenous lifeways. http://run4salmon.org/West Coast Water Justice - Podcast focused on Indigenous centered water justice movement https://www.westcoastwaterjustice.org/“Salmon and Acorns Feed our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action,” by Dr. Kari Norgaard https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/salmon-and-acorns-feed-our-people/9780813584195“Upstream: Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River,” by Dr. Beth Rose Middleton Manning https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/upstreamAs we publish this episode, you can find us on additional podcast and streaming platforms

Part III gives context to the larger California water system--and its boosters, defenders, and profiteers.Interviewees for Part III:Brittani Orona (Hoopa Valley Tribe)Ron Reed (Karuk)Dr. Beth Rose Middleton ManningSheridan EnomotoTina Calderon (Gabrieliño-Tongva and Chumash)Joe Calderon (Tongva/ChumashCredits: Audio engineering and editing by Daniel Stonebloom; All interviews conducted and recorded by Martin Rizzo-Martinez; Music written, performed, and recorded by G. Gonzales & Hilson Parker. Water flow audio recorded by Ariel Stonebloom.Follow us on Twitter: @ChalColonialPodAs we publish this episode, you can find us on additional podcast and streaming platformsThis podcast is supported by the California State Parks Foundation: https://www.calparks.org/For further reading and to get involved, see the following:Bring the Salmon Homewww.bringthesalmonhome.orgSave California Salmonhttps://www.californiasalmon.org/Reconnect Klamathhttps://reconnectklamath.org/Klamath River Renewal Corporationhttps://klamathrenewal.org/Run4Salmon - A prayerful journey led by Chief Caleen Sisk of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe to restore our salmon runs, protect our waters, and our indigenous lifeways.http://run4salmon.org/West Coast Water Justice - Podcast focused on Indigenous centered water justice movementhttps://www.westcoastwaterjustice.org/“Salmon and Acorns Feed our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action,” by Dr. Kari Norgaardhttps://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/salmon-and-acorns-feed-our-people/9780813584195“Upstream: Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River,” by Dr. Beth Rose Middleton Manninghttps://uapress.arizona.edu/book/upstream

Part two of a four-part episode outlines dams as a colonial project, and centers Indigenous science in the historical and ongoing indigenous resistance to eco-genocide.Interviewees for s01e03 p. II:Chief Caleen Sisk (Winnemem Wintu)Brittani Orona (Hoopa Valley Tribe)Ron Reed (Karuk)Dr. Beth Rose Middleton ManningSheridan EnomotoMarc Dadigan& Craig TuckerCredits:Audio engineering and editing by Daniel StonebloomAll interviews conducted and recorded by Martin Rizzo-MartinezAmbient sounds recorded by Ariel StonebloomMusic written, performed, and performed by G. GonzalesFollow us on Twitter: @ChalColonialPodFor further reading and to get involved, see the following:Bring the Salmon Homewww.bringthesalmonhome.orgSave California Salmonhttps://www.californiasalmon.org/Reconnect Klamathhttps://reconnectklamath.org/Klamath River Renewal Corporationhttps://klamathrenewal.org/Run4Salmon - A prayerful journey led by Chief Caleen Sisk of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe to restore our salmon runs, protect our waters, and our indigenous lifeways.http://run4salmon.org/West Coast Water Justice - Podcast focused on Indigenous centered water justice movementhttps://www.westcoastwaterjustice.org/“Salmon and Acorns Feed our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action,” by Dr. Kari Norgaardhttps://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/salmon-and-acorns-feed-our-people/9780813584195“Upstream: Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River,” by Dr. Beth Rose Middleton Manninghttps://uapress.arizona.edu/book/upstreamChallenging Colonialism in California is produced by Martin Rizzo-Martinez, Historian, & Daniel Stonebloom, a Public School Administrator. It is not our intention to further colonize the narrative, or to misrepresent stories that are not our own. It is our intention to create an educational resource where everyone can hear the perspectives of Indigenous peoples in their own words. Please leave your feedback, suggestions, reviews, ideas for future episodes, and more at the episode page. And please share and promote the podcast in your networks.This podcast produced with support from the California State Parks Foundation: https://www.calparks.org/

In part one of a four part episode, we examine the negative environmental and cultural impact of hydroelectric dams, and the Indigenous-led movement to remove them. This episode explores the Indigenous-led movement to restore salmon in California rivers through dam removal. These dams, deemed Weapons of Mass Destruction by Winnemem Wintu Chief Caleen Sisk, have devastated salmon populations--and the communities whose histories have been in relationship with salmon since time immemorial.Interviewees for s01e03 p.I:Ron Reed (Karuk)Brittani Orona (Hoopa Valley Tribe)Dr. Beth Rose Middleton ManningDr. Kari NorgaardCraig TuckerCredits:Audio engineering and editing by Daniel StonebloomAll interviews conducted and recorded by Martin Rizzo-MartinezMusic written, performed, and recorded by G. GonzalesAmbient sounds recorded by Ariel StonebloomFollow us on Twitter: @ChalColonialPodFor further reading and to get involved, see the following:Bring the Salmon Homehttp://www.bringthesalmonhome.orgSave California Salmonhttps://www.californiasalmon.org/Reconnect Klamathhttps://reconnectklamath.org/Klamath River Renewal Corporationhttps://klamathrenewal.org/Run4Salmon - A prayerful journey led by Chief Caleen Sisk of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe to restore our salmon runs, protect our waters, and our indigenous lifeways.http://run4salmon.org/West Coast Water Justice - Podcast focused on Indigenous centered water justice movementhttps://www.westcoastwaterjustice.org/“Salmon and Acorns Feed our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action,” by Dr. Kari Norgaardhttps://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/salmon-and-acorns-feed-our-people/9780813584195“Upstream: Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River,” by Dr. Beth Rose Middleton Manninghttps://uapress.arizona.edu/book/upstreamChallenging Colonialism in California is produced by Martin Rizzo-Martinez, Historian, & Daniel Stonebloom, a Public School Administrator. It is not our intention to further colonize the narrative, or to misrepresent stories that are not our own. It is our intention to create an educational resource where everyone can hear the perspectives of Indigenous peoples in their own words. Please leave your feedback, suggestions, reviews, ideas for future episodes, and more at the episode page. And please share and promote the podcast in your networks.This podcast produced with support from the California State Parks Foundation: https://www.calparks.org/Part II will be released on February 7th.

Filled to the brim with scandal, murder, and historic characters ranging from Queen Victoria to Thomas Edison to Wyatt Earp, the history behind the Golden Gate Villa is nothing to scoff at.  In 1907 Santa Cruz was served a salacious historic scandal resulting in a horrific tragedy...leaving the house rumored to be haunted in its wake. Buy some merch and support the podcast! https://www.crimesandwitchdemeanors.com/shop  Follow the Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crimesandwitchdemeanors Submit your feedback or personal stories to contact@crimesandwitchdemeanors.com  Like The Podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crimesandwitchdemeanors  Visit the website: https://www.crimesandwitchdemeanors.com  Episode Transcript: Available below the sources in the show notes   SOURCES:   7 Dec 1907, Page 1—Santa Cruz Evening News at Newspapers.com. (n.d.). Newspapers.Com. Retrieved September 14, 2021, from http://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=4203848&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjU1Mzc5MDMzLCJpYXQiOjE2MzE2MjAzMTAsImV4cCI6MTYzMTcwNjcxMH0.RvcF17nCqc3CPgInOgE9pYOuOODX01oAtIjpmA0sC0A     Clipped From Oroville Daily Register. (1907, November 18). Oroville Daily Register, 1.     Dormanen, S. (n.d.). The Golden Gate Villa. Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Retrieved September 10, 2021, from https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/files/original/dac12ae750afce922632b1d9a1f17930.pdf     Frank McLaughlin Kills Daughter and Himself at Santa Cruz: Bullet and Poison Used. (1907, November 17). The San Francisco Call, 17–18.     Golden Gate Villa. (2021). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Golden_Gate_Villa&oldid=1023021509     Metroactive Features | The Haunting of Santa Cruz. (n.d.). Retrieved September 12, 2021, from http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/10.29.03/haunting-0344.html     Poverty Pitiful at the End. (1907, November 19). Santa Cruz Sentinel, 2.     Sweet House Dreams: Golden Gate Villa, 1891 Queen Anne Victorian in Santa Cruz, California. (n.d.). Sweet House Dreams. Retrieved September 10, 2021, from http://sweethousedreams.blogspot.com/2018/06/golden-gate-villa-1891-queen-anne.html     Tom Brezsny. (2012, October 18). Golden Gate Villa—924 Third Street Santa Cruz California—Lavishly ornamented victorian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jd72cnY_6E   Transcript: Hello, and welcome to Crimes and Witch Demeanors, the paranormal podcast where we go beyond the Wikipedia page and delve into historic sources to find the truth behind your favorite ghostly tales.  I'm your host and loveable librarian – Joshua Spellman.   Today we have a very exciting ghost story filled to the brim with scandal, murder, and historic characters ranging from Thomas Edison to Wyatt Earp the outlaw but even these prominent figure are obscured by today's ghostly tale.  Trust me, it's juicy, and we have all the gossipy progressive-era tabloids to prove it.  And boy, are some of these newspapers gorgeous, so make sure to check them out on the podcast Instagram.    Also thank you to everyone who purchased some merch from the shop!  You are true bibli-ahh-graphers!  If you want to support the podcast please go ahead and grab something for youself, crimesandwitchdemeanors.com link in the description!   So, anyway, you're here for the salacious historic scandal and the modern haunts that resulted from it.  So put on your sunnies, grab a parasol, we're headed to Santa Cruz and learning the legend behind the Golden Gate Villa and the tragedy that transpired there…       Considered one of the most historically significant homes in all of California, Golden Gate villa is perched atop Santa Cruz's historic Beach Hill neighborhood.  It's face is painted a buttery gold with a bright orchid trim; cheerful colors that belie it's dark and twisted past.   Major Frank McLaughlin was born sometime around 1840.  During his early career he served on the police force in Newark, New Jersey and developed a life-long friendship with esteemed inventor Thomas Edison.  He fought with Union forces briefly during the Civil War, but his stint was brief and it's unlikely this is where he earned his military title.  Instead, it is thought he achieved it from his later activity with the California state militia.   McLaughlin became an engineer on the Pacific Railroad, helping to lay tracks across the plains and the Wild West.  In the Wild West he earned quite the reputation, known as “one of the quickest men on the frontier” and was one of only a handful of men to ever challenge Wyatt Earp and live to tell the tale.   In 1877, McLaughlin returned to the East coast where he began to court a New Jersey widow by the name of ­­­­Margaret Loomis.  During this period Thomas Edison was developing the incandescent light bulb but ran into trouble finding a dependable source of platinum to use as filaments.  Without this precious metal, he would not be able to market his invention.   McLaughlin suggested that Edison source from the Feather River in California, as McLaughlin heard that there had been a find there.  Upon this suggestion, Edison commissioned McLaughlin to head out west and prospect for the mineral.  Before he did so, McLaughlin married Margaret Loomis and adopted her young daughter Agnes.   Like with most of his endeavors, McLaughlin went all-in.  It was said that he "never settled for the petite when the mammoth was available" and his exploits in Butte county were no exception.  He soon earned the title “King of Feather” for his domination of the river where his sights quickly turned from platinum to gold.  He soon began to make a fortune, but he was smart never to invest his own money – instead he organized companies he would manage giving himself a hefty salary.   During this time McLaughlin commissioned San Francisco architect Thomas J. Welsh to design a home for Margaret and Agnes to escape the brutal summer heat.  McLaughlin instructed Welsh to "spare no expense in making Golden Gate Villa the showplace of Santa Cruz” – and that he did.  The mansion was named the after Golden Gate Mining Company, which managed the operations back in Feather, and provided all the funds for his lavish home.  Naturally, being friends with Thomas Edison, the home was outfitted with the newest luxury available – electricity.   The home was magnificent and the McLaughlin's hosted many events including costume parties, magic shows, musicals, fireworks displays, and the first moving picture ever shown in Santa Cruz.  Agnes became a figure of note in the local community and was pronounced as “indescribably pretty”, a “petite beauty with rose leaf complexion”, and as the “ideal American girl” by a number of publications.  Perhaps it's no wonder the focal piece of the Golden Gate Villa is a gigantic stained glass portrait of a young woman reaching to pick an apple blossomed branch.  Rumour has it that McLaughlin cut some of Agnes' hair to be mixed in with the color of the glass.  Despite Agnes's earthly beauty and love of parties and extravagance, she regularly attended mass with her dog…who she often sprayed with expensive cologne.  Agnes had never married, though she almost did once.  She was engaged to a man named Sam Rucker, and while the invitations to the ceremony were sent nothing ever came of it.    While the McLaughlin women lived in luxury in Santa Cruz, McLaughlin was busy with various endeavors: From olive orchards to orange groves, to a 9-mile tunnel at Big Bend, a 30-mile flume for the hydraulic mine, and funding development in the area, McLaughlin was quickly amassing a fortune.  However, his biggest endeavor was to divert the water of the Feather so that gold could be mined from the river bed.   Receiving letters of recommendation from Thomas Edison, the governor, and two California state senators, McLaughlin travelled to London to try and secure investors.  He was charming, as usual, and made such an impression that the newspapers declared that “Not since Benjamin Franklin had an American made such an impression on English society”  McLaughlin seemed to have luck in all of his projects and this trip was no different – due to a misunderstanding he came home with $12 million in funds…a great deal more than he planned or ever dare thought to get.   However, the project itself would not see the same luck.  The project took four years to complete the end resulting in a 7,000 foot long canal and a retaining wall twelve feet wide and twenty feet high.  It became one of the greatest mining feats of the era and Thomas Edison, McLaughlin's chum, provided the first electric lights ever to be used on a construction site as the workers labored all hours of the day.   When the water was diverted and the riverbed dry, McLaughlin was the first to take his shovel to the dirt.  While he struck gold in London, much like the river, this project would soon run dry.  McLaughlin was sure that he would make a 100 million return on the initial 12 million invested but the project ended in catastrophe.  Instead of hitting gold, he hit bankruptcy.  All they found were small gold nuggets, old rusty picks, and buckets.   It turns out that McLaughlin was 50 years too late. Half a century earlier, 49ers diverted the same river with a simple wooden flume, exhausting all the gold in the area and walking away with a fortune.  The locals of the area knew this, and knew that McLaughlin's project was doomed from the start but decided to keep it a secret to watch the man go down in flames.   Like his previous project, McLaughlin declined to invest any of his own money, and upon learning this, the English investors were furious.  They found out that McLaughlin had lost no money at all, and was paying himself a generous salary.  Queen Victoria herself launched an investigation and sent Scotland Yard to investigate. However, when the agent arrived, he was scared off by McLaughlin who wasn't afraid to wave his pistol about…he did survive an encounter with Wyatt Earp, a timid Englishman was nothing to him.   McLaughlin soon got into politics, earning quite the reputation as a staunch frontiersman and capitalist though he never held office he became chair of California's Republican State Central Committee during the 1896 presidential campaign and was credited with carrying the whole state for McKinley.  In fact, McLaughlin was offered a seat in McKinley's cabinet though he declined, just as he declined to run for governor despite the pleas of the people.   Mrs. Margaret McLaughlin died in on November 16, 1905, turning Frank into a widower and leaving her daughter Agnes behind.  On that same date in 1907, Agnes attended an early mass in memory of her mother.  After returning home, Agnes retired to her bedroom in the tower to take a nap.  While Agnes slept someone entered her room unnoticed, pressed a 44 caliber pistol to her temple, and fired.   Knowing that his step-daughter was sleeping, Major Frank McLaughlin set their maid out on an errand before going upstairs and murdering his beloved step-daughter.  Shortly after the deed was done, McLaughlin called his banker William Jeter and urged him to come to the home immediately.  Jeter was preoccupied and could not come but McLaughlin insisted shouting "You must come at once. I have just killed my Bob (his pet name for Agnes) and I am going to kill myself.”   And he did.  He ingest a fatal dose of potassium cyanide, dying just as his friend arrived.  To everyone's shock…Agnes had survived…at least for the time being.  While she survived the initial wound at the hands of the Major, she succumbed to her injuries at 6:30 that evening.   Newspapers published salacious headlines for weeks that ran alongside the obituary that McLaughlin had penned himself.  The tragedy was naturally a hit with the media being full of scandal and intrigue as it was.  McLaughlin for the most part was an incredibly popular and well-liked man and the thought of this crime was nearly inconceivable.  Why…how on earth could he do such a thing?   You see, this was not just a random act of violence or a crime of passion.  It was not executed on a whim.  No, the Major had been meticulously planning the did for months which he outlined in the documents he left to Jeter including farewell letters to friends and family, instructions, and an explanation for his crime.   It turns out that McLaughlin was beginning to suffer financially, though he kept it hidden from everyone.  Major McLaughlin feared falling into poverty and being unable to provide for his step-daughter that he loved so dearly.  He wrote in his letter “"To leave my darling child helpless and penniless would be unnatural and so I take her with me to our loved one. She is the very last one who could face this world alone.”   However, at the inquest it was revealed that he could have liquidated his estate and had a large surplus to spare – hardly leaving him or Agnes impoverished.  Some supposed he was simply embarrassed by his failure at Feather River, his reputation shattered by the incident.  However, no rationalization could really explain why he did what he did.   Though whispers around Santa Cruz gave wind to a new theory.  Many thought it strange that after Mrs. McLaughlin's death that Agnes continued to live with the Major since she was not of blood relation to him.  The fact that she had remained unmarried well into her thirties also didn't quite sit right with the local community.  In fact, they could recall that many years prior announcements of Agnes' marriage to Sam Rucker were sent out but that the wedding was cancelled at the last moment…presumably because the Major couldn't bear to see her married to another man.   Then, a man by the name of Christian R. Wolters, a prosperous merchant in the city, stepped forward claiming that the was secretly engaged to Agnes at the time of her murder…making it hard to believe that Major Frank McLaughlin couldn't stand to see his step-daughter fall into poverty when she would be well-provided for by her would-be husband.   Regardless of his motivations, whether the Major was truly in love with his step-daughter or whether he just could not stand the thought of aging alone in the villa without a family he wrote in his letter “I love her so and so I take her with me”  In a letter to the family doctor, F.E. Morgan, McLaughlin wrote  “Please see that we are not cut up, at least that my pure sweet child is not” and on the outside of the envelope he had written “Dear Doc. Please do me one last favor and chloroform our old cat”   And so, the mystery remains.  However, inside the confines of the shining Golden Gate Villa the spirit of the McLaughlin's remain…if only they could divulge their secrets the living…       I got a lot of my information from an article in the November 17, 1907 issue of the San Francisco Daily call titled “Frank McLaughlin Kills Daughter and Himself at Santa Cruz” which had an interesting juxtaposition with another article “Suicide Ends Happy Love Affair of Girl – takes poison when father refuses to consent to wedding.”  Just such similar situations but different ends – albeit both tragic ones.   But the majority of my information, or the source I followed to historic ones was by a life-saver of a librarian or historian from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries local history collection by the name of Susan Dormanen.  There wasn't very much online at all historically speaking and Susan wrote a great piece, and like any great librarian, had an endless supply of footnotes for me to peruse leading me to the primary sources.   I found it interesting that reports of McLaughlin fighting Wyatt Earp were published awhile after his death, no doubt the papers were still riding the coattails of the tragedy.  On the 19 of November two interesting stories came out, and while they came out later it does make sense that they would – they wouldn't have had much reason to publish these prior but I think it gives an interesting look into the Major's personality…at least towards those that weren't his wife or Agnes.  ­­1 Always a Foe of Earp Major McLaughlin was unsparing in his denunciations of the rascality of Wyatt Earp, and it was said up and down Market St. that Earp had vowed to shoot McLaughlin on sight... When the two encountered one another at Johnny Farley's Peerless saloon, Earp and the little Major had a staring match for a thrilling instant in which the petulant pop of the pistol was expected by all. But the Arizona gun man saw that he could not intimidate through many a gun play on the western frontier, and so he said with a tone smacking something of an apology: 'I know, Major McLaughlin, that you would not have made such remarks unless you believed them to be true,' and left the saloon while the man he was supposed to kill on sight took his time over his drink, uttered a few jocular remarks for the benefit of the bystanders, and went his own way with a nerve seemingly shaken not at all.[5]   No Fear of a "Bad Gun" There was never any doubt of his physical courage or his willingness to accept a challenge from any bad gun man. When he was managing the campaign of D.M. Burns for the United States Senate there were many threats that he would be killed, and one day in the corridor of the Golden Eagle Hotel in Sacramento he met Major Goucher of San Diego, who was supposed to have a particular grudge against him. Major McLaughlin calmly spat in Major Goucher's face and pushed him with his left hand. Goucher made no effort to resent the insult and afterwards said: "I was too wise to be taken in by that old frontier trick. He spat in my pistol eye, and pushed me off with his left hand, so that he was free to draw on me with his right."

It's been awhile! Although I've been playing many sets online since I last posted here, many of them have been on my twitch feed for the combination of audio and visual experience. To make up for it, here's a set that's a combination of one I played last weekend and elements of a few others I've done before for a mega 2hr set. Enjoy! Video of first half of this set: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/697979682 More sets: https://twitch.tv/kevnull/videos

Donna Harold isn't worried about the river. “Some of our neighbors panicked and left,” she says, “but we stayed behind.” She turns and shushes the pair of toddlers squabbling in the red wagon behind her. Late Sunday night, state officials sent out an evacuation order saying that Lake Oroville—30 miles north, feeding into the Feather River that runs through Harold's hometown of Marysville—was hemorrhaging water and in danger of bursting.