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Officials estimate that fuel reduction treatments should take place on more than 18,000 acres each year in Butte County. Also, specialized state COVID-19 testing sites that offer treatment are seeing fewer patients than anticipated, Republican lawmakers call for action on gas prices, and Sacramento is trying to curb harassment outside reproductive health care facilities.

Host Dave Schlom is joined by special co-host Kendall Hall, astronomer and physics professor at California State University Chico as we dive into the first images and science coming out of the James Webb Space Telescope.

The man accused in the deadly February Oroville bus shooting was found competent to stand trial. Also, Chico’s 6th Street Center for Youth says it will soon have another housing location for homeless teens and young adults, and the Inflation Reduction Act could bring billions of dollars in drought relief to the state.

This week on Cultivating Place, we’re in conversation with Jenny Jones and Jen Toy. They are gardeners, landscape architects, and caring humans who are taking the idea of a test plot to the community level.

State officials are undertaking bold moves to try to save threatened winter-run Chinook salmon. Also, it’s important to know the difference between fire-weather terms like “fire weather watch” and “red flag warning,” and activists rally at the California Capitol for access to clean water.

Recovery is happening slower than expected for many residents in the Dixie Fire burn scar. Also, isolated mountain thunderstorms could return to the North State this week, and California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye reflects on her time leading the state’s highest court.

Retired History and Sociology Professor Ken Rose passed away, and his interview on Nancy’s Bookshelf is being rerun in his honor.

Safe Space opens an air-conditioned cooling center in Chico. Also, PG&E looks to its customers with Tesla batteries for help during times of high demand, and the Oak Fire near Yosemite National Park becomes California’s largest wildfire this year.

Tehama County’s director of environmental health says many residents don’t have the option of drilling new wells or deepening existing ones. Also, widespread haze and smoke is drifting into Chico from the Six Rivers Lightning Complex, and Gov. Gavin Newsom wants the state to up the ante on fighting climate change.

Butte County has received just 20 doses of the monkeypox vaccine. Also, the National Weather Service issues an excessive heat watch for much of the North State, and a State Auditor’s report finds nearly a million Californians are drinking unsafe water.