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CalFire is reviewing public comments to make changes to its fire hazard severity zones map. Also, California Senator Dianne Feinstein returns to the Senate, and lawmakers are putting pressure on Gov. Newsom to increase childcare funding to the tune of a billion dollars.

Cultivating Place is pleased to once again be in conversation this week with Deb Prinzing, founder of the Slow Flowers movement here in the U.S. and Canada, and of The Slow Flowers Society.

Officials identify 17-year-old killed in Chico shooting. Also, Chico’s Pallet Shelter for unhoused residents celebrates one year since opening, and Northern California white water rafting companies say snowmelt will lead to an epic season.

The Redding City Council approved an updated fire mitigation plan. Also, a year after spending a $100 billion surplus, California lawmakers must fill a deficit, and a new bill would end involuntary prison labor.

Author Darren Chitwood explores addiction and hopes his stories will help others find their path to recovery.

As more homes in California are built in areas at high risk for wildfire, new research shows that disclosing wildfire risk potential to homebuyers lowers home sale prices. Also, the Chico City Council voted to approve the city budget including a 20% raise for the city’s police department, and a building was vandalized with homophobic hate speech in Susanville on the first day of Pride Month, now the community is coming together to fight hate.

Six affordable tiny homes are now open for unhoused residents in Chico who are referred by community organizations. Also, a new study shows wildfire risk disclosures reduce home prices but only some homeowners have to divulge, and El Niño has officially arrived in California potentially bringing wet weather and record breaking high temperatures.

Paradise officials and residents are concerned that the town’s first test of its early warning sirens Thursday could scare people and cause difficult emotions to resurface. Also, 20 members of Congress from California are sending a letter to the EPA today — they’re worried that a rule intended to improve air quality could make it harder to conduct prescribed burns, and more than 1,200 people in Butte County were counted as experiencing homelessness in the 2023 Point-In-Time report released yesterday.

In this episode, Host Dave Schlom tackles a topic much in the news lately, how to safely and ethically use our public lands and waters. Dave visits with National Park Service spokesperson Ana Beatriz Cholo from the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in Los Angeles.

California public schools may soon be required to teach kids about the causes and effects of climate change and methods to mitigate and adapt to its effects. Also, the nonprofit Camp Fire Restoration Project has built bioreactors for composting in Bille Park to help restore topsoil after the fire, and Chico State is working to help hundreds of students find off-campus housing by next fall due to Whitney Hall being under construction.