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The annual Snow Goose Festival begins tomorrow and it’s attracting visitors from well beyond the North State. Also, Shasta County’s Registrar of Voters said the county will today begin checking all election equipment, ballot counting and recording procedures ahead of the primary election, and more than 350,000 Californians get fire insurance through the California FAIR Plan. That means the number of policyholders has almost tripled in the last five years.

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The Paradise Town Council will let Camp Fire survivors live on their properties for another year without rebuilding. Some survivors are only now beginning to return, in trailers. Also, the California State University and California Faculty Association reached a tentative deal last night after professors, lecturers and other staff walked out on the first day of classes on all 23 CSU campuses yesterday, and the National Weather Service has lifted flood watches for the North State and the next storm isn’t expect to raise flood risk.

In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of us, I am pleased to be joined this week by three members of the team at The Institute for Applied Ecology – literally ecology in 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.

One neighborhood in Paradise joined the “Firewise USA” program last year. This year, 20 new neighborhoods are expected. Also, the Chico City Council voted to continue discussion about rent stabilization after residents at one senior mobile home are facing unaffordable rent hikes, and there are limits on how many bars can exist in the northern section of downtown Chico. But that might change once council members agree on where to take a new proposed ordinance that would lift those restrictions.

On the first day of the semester, professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches at the California State University will begin a weeklong strike this morning, including at Chico State. The California Faculty Association has been negotiating for a 12% general pay increase. Also, rates of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, that are monitored in Butte County’s wastewater are on the decline following state and national trends, and after several items were pulled from the agenda at the last Butte County Board of Supervisors meeting, they’re now coming back for discussion.

SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens joins host Dave Schlom to take a deep dive into the science of meteors and meteor showers. Dr. Jenniskens is the author of the authoritative Atlas of Earth's Meteor Showers, a comprehensive and professional-level compilation of all we currently know about meteor showers and the comets they originate from.

The state is reprimanding Shasta County for its failure to distribute millions of dollars in housing funds. The California Interagency Council on Homelessness warned they’ll take action if they don’t turn over the money. Also, as scientists sound the alarm of rising global greenhouse gas emissions, one concerning side effect may be longer and more dangerous storm systems in California, and more outdoor seating for cafes and restaurants in downtown Oroville was approved this week by the city council.

Two scientists join host Dave Schlom to discuss the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission which launched in December of 2022.