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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.

Some North State residents are getting nervous about wildfires now that daily highs are regularly in the triple digits. We turn to Zeke Lunder — wildfire scientist and founder of The Lookout — for more on this year’s peak wildfire season. Also, the Redding City Council weighs in on a controversial and costly decision by the Shasta County Board of Supervisors to have all elections counted by hand, and if you’re headed to see Taylor Swift perform in Santa Clara this month the city will actually be called “Swiftie Clara” while you’re there.

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E.M. Liddick relives his fall from grace and searches for a way back home. His book, "All the Memories That Remain: War, Alzheimer's, and the Search for a Way Home," is a tribute to his journey from war, his father's diagnosis of Alzheimer's, and finding meaning in what remains.

Paradise residents pleaded with California officials this week to get major insurance carriers that have stopped or put caps on selling new insurance policies in the state to reconsider. Also, PG&E looks to microgrids as one solution to try to reduce the likelihood of wildfires caused by its equipment, and the state’s energy grid is expected to hold up during this week’s heat wave.

In this week’s conversation, embrace this sublime sensuality from a variety of perspectives in conversation with master naturalist Nancy Lawson.