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Matt Pontes, former Shasta County CEO, tapped as SPI’s first Director of Wildfire and Fuels Management

SHASTA COUNTY, Calif., — Matt Pontes, who announced last month that he was resigning as Shasta County CEO, and timber titan Sierra Pacific Industries announced over the weekend that Pontes will become Sierra Pacific Industries’ (SPI) first Director of Wildfire and Fuels Management. Sierra Pacific Industries is a third-generation, family-owned forest products company based in Anderson, California, and the company […]

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Citing “extreme drought conditions, wildfire dangers”, SPI and Beaty to close all public timberland access

SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. — Citing “extreme drought conditions” and “risk of wildfire”, both Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) and W. M. Beaty & Associates, Inc. have announced they will be closing all timberland access to their properties, beginning next week, Monday, June 21.  The closures, which are similar to other forestland closures heading into wild fire season in recent years, are […]

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Family heirlooms lost in Burney fire that destroyed coop, shed

BURNEY, Calif. — Officials say nobody was injured but many irreplaceable family heirlooms were destroyed after a fire erupted in a Burney chicken coop and spread to a nearby shed and surrounding vegetation Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 29. Although nobody was injured in the fire, the blaze destroyed the chicken coop, “leaving five chickens homeless and confused as to where to […]

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Citing “extreme wildfire conditions,” SPI closes all public access to its CA forest lands

As California continues experiencing its worst fire season in ten years, with more than 820,000 acres already burned across the state as of Aug. 10, Sierra Pacific Industries recently announced they had closed all public access to its forestland holdings in California. SPI’s announcement was immediately met with both praise and frustration, with countless California residents voicing their opinions about […]

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