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- Written by: NATE LILLGE
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — In 2016, the Woodland-based nonprofit Tuleyome purchased 1,280-acres along a portion of the north fork of Cache Creek in Lake County.
Known as Silver Spur Ranch, the property is located in the heart of the 330,780-acre Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument.
Since the purchase, Tuleyome has been working with multiple agencies and partners on several ongoing scientific studies.
The California Department of Water Resources has a water quality monitoring station on Cache Creek as it flows through Silver Spur.
The Department of Water Resources California Data Exchange Center installs, maintains and operates an extensive hydrologic data collection network including snow reporting gages for the Cooperative Snow Surveys Program as well as precipitation and river stage sensors for flood forecasting. The monitor has been collecting data since late 2000.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife, or CDFW, uses Silver Spur as one of its annual deer survey locations. Their study utilizes game cameras and the collection of fecal pellets to study DNA.
The annual, five-week study has taken place since 2017, shortly after Tuleyome acquired the ranch.
While Tuleyome does not permit hunting on the property, hunters are allowed pass through the ranch to utilize the Bureau of Land Management-managed lands to the west, east, and north.
In 2018, the Pawnee fire burned through Silver Spur Ranch. Tuleyome applied for and received funding from the Sacramento Zoo to study how wildlife, especially mammals, returned to the area after the burn. A dozen wildlife cameras were set up in different habitat types to monitor the property.
The cameras provided us the opportunity to see what happens when humans are not around. It became clear that deer, bear, bobcats and mountain lions utilize Silver Spur.
The fire in 2018 also put Silver Spur on the radar of Dr. Timothy Stark from the University of Illinois -Urbana Champaign. He and his team are monitoring the impact of wildfires on landslides in Lake County.
There are multiple landslides of varying sizes — some have burned, some have not. Dr. Stark has installed weather stations on Silver Spur as part of a USDA-funded study. The weather stations collect data including precipitation, wind speed and direction, temperature, and soil moisture.
The most recent study to utilize Tuleyome’s Silver Spur Ranch is CDFW’s Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program.
This program is conducting vegetation surveys in Lake County to include in their North Coast and Ranges Vegetation Classification and Mapping Project.
They will use the information to create a description of plant communities (vegetation types) and a vegetation map of a section of the North Coast, including Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, and portions of Lake counties.
Tuleyome’s Silver Spur Ranch is a gorgeous place in the heart of Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument. These studies are helping us understand the importance and uniqueness of the Monument and will provide information when the Monument Management Plan is being developed by the BLM and U.S. Forest Service.
Nate Lillge is the adventures and engagement director for Tuleyome.
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. — The Clearlake Police Department is attempting to locate a missing man.
They are seeking information about Charles Ness.
Police said Ness was on Friday between 6 and 6:30 p.m. in the area of 6101 Old Highway 53 in Clearlake. He was possibly headed to J&L Market on a mountain bike.
Ness is described as a white male adult, 6 feet, 1 inch tall, and 250 pounds, with brown hair shaved on sides and short on top, with hazel eyes.
When last seen, he was wearing a shirt of unknown color and blue baggy jeans.
If you have any information regarding Ness’ whereabouts please contact the Clearlake Police Department at 707-994-8251, Extension 1.
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- Written by: Scott A Imberman, Michigan State University and Katharine O. Strunk, Michigan State University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
The COVID-19 pandemic had a stark negative impact on students’ math scores, new data from Michigan shows. Math achievement growth over the three-year period from spring 2019 through spring 2022 was substantially lower – approximately 7 national percentiles – than among comparable students the three years prior.
There were even larger decreases among students who are Black or Latino, low income or who attended the majority of schools that taught remotely for at least part of the 2020-2021 academic year.
Effects on scores for English language arts, which include reading and writing, were small and generally not statistically significant.
To arrive at these findings, we looked at individual test scores and other data from Michigan.
First we looked at how math and English language arts test scores on Michigan’s annual statewide M-STEP exam grew between 2019 and 2022 for a group of students in third grade through fifth grade in spring 2019.
We compared these students’ test score growth with growth achieved by similar students who were in those same grades three years earlier, before the pandemic began. This provides us with a broad view of the impact of the pandemic on school learning as measured through test scores.
We also looked at scores from a series of benchmark tests taken between fall 2020 and spring 2022 to measure how achievement growth changed within each school year leading up to and following the height of the pandemic.
While other studies also show how the pandemic set back student achievement, our research looks at how achievement was affected over the course of the pandemic rather than just the end result. And the picture is pretty clear: Using a set of exams given at the beginning and end of each school year, we found a large drop in achievement between fall 2020 and spring 2021.
While student achievement began to improve in spring 2021, that recovery has been too slow to enable students to reach pre-pandemic expectations for test scores.
And, just as Black, Latino and low-income students suffered the largest drops in test scores during the pandemic, their math recovery has also slightly lagged behind white students and students who were more affluent.
Why it matters
This study adds to the research on how the pandemic appears to have exacerbated racial and economic achievement gaps. These gaps are important because lower achievement among disadvantaged groups could lead to lower college enrollment rates and, in turn, lower earnings.
What still isn’t known
Research is starting to show how quickly students are recovering and whether students are catching up at a rate fast enough to overcome pandemic learning disruptions. Some interventions, such as tutoring and after-school programming, are in place to attempt to speed up the recovery, but we do not yet know how effective they are.
We also don’t know for sure why there were disproportionate learning delays in math relative to English language arts. One possibility is that families found it easier to supplement reading instruction at home compared to math.
What’s next
Our next study looks at how the pandemic affected how students were identified for special education services. We are assessing how the inability to have in-person contact between teachers, school professionals and students made it harder to assess and serve students who might benefit from special education. Delays in access to these services could have substantially affected their academic, developmental and behavioral progress.
Scott A Imberman, Professor of Economics and Education Policy, Michigan State University and Katharine O. Strunk, Professor of Education Policy and Economics, Michigan State University
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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Dogs available for adoption this week include mixes of Anatolian shepherd, Belgian malinois, Catahoula leopard dog, Chihuahua, German shepherd, hound, mastiff, pit bull, plott hound, pointer and terrier.
Dogs that are adopted from Lake County Animal Care and Control are either neutered or spayed, microchipped and, if old enough, given a rabies shot and county license before being released to their new owner. License fees do not apply to residents of the cities of Lakeport or Clearlake.
The following dogs at the Lake County Animal Care and Control shelter have been cleared for adoption.
Call Lake County Animal Care and Control at 707-263-0278 or visit the shelter online for information on visiting or adopting.
Female terrier
This 6-year-old female terrier has a gray coat
She is in kennel No. 68, ID No. LCAC-A-5393.
Male German shepherd puppy
This 6-month-old male German shepherd puppy has a black and tan coat.
He is in kennel No. 2, ID No. LCAC-A-5315.
‘Zeus’
“Zeus” is a 2-year-old male mastiff with a short brown coat.
He is in kennel No. 3, ID No. LCAC-A-5070.
Female German shepherd
This 3-year-old female German shepherd has a black and tan coat.
She is in kennel No. 4, ID No. LCAC-A-5396.
Anatolian shepherd-mastiff mix
This 3-year-old male Anatolian shepherd-mastiff mix has a short fawn coat.
He is in kennel No. 5, ID No. LCAC-A-5276.
‘Zeta’
“Zeta” is a 1-year-old female pit bull terrier with a black and tan coat.
She is in kennel No. 6, ID No. LCAC-A-5427.
Female pit bull terrier
This 3-year-old female pit bull terrier has a brown and white coat.
She is in kennel No. 10, ID No. LCAC-A-5400.
Female hound-shepherd mix puppy
This 3-month-old female hound-shepherd mix puppy has a black and tan coat.
She is in kennel No. 11, ID No. LCAC-A-5370.
Male Catahoula leopard dog puppy
This 3-month-old male Catahoula leopard dog puppy has a short tan and white coat.
He is in kennel No. 13, ID No. LCAC-A-5354.
Female pointer-retriever mix
This 9-year-old female pointer-retriever mix has a short white coat with brown markings.
She is in kennel No. 15, ID No. LCAC-A-5404.
Male German shepherd
This two and a half year old male German shepherd has a black and tan coat.
He is in kennel No. 16, ID No. LCAC-A-5337.
Male German shepherd
This 1 year old male German shepherd has a black and tan coat.
He is in kennel No. 17, ID No. LCAC-A-5324.
Male plott hound
This 2-year-old male plott hound has a short brown coat.
He is in kennel No. 18, ID No. LCAC-A-5143.
Female pit bull terrier
This 5-year-old female pit bull terrier has a short gray and white coat.
She is in kennel No. 19, ID No. LCAC-A-5321.
Male Chihuahua-terrier mix
This 2-year-old male Chihuahua-terrier mix has a short white coat.
She is in kennel No. 20, ID No. LCAC-A-5381.
Female Chihuahua
This 2-year-old female Chihuahua has a short brown and white coat.
She is in kennel No. 21, ID No. LCAC-A-5379.
Male shepherd
This 2-year-old male shepherd has a black and tan coat.
He is in kennel No. 22, ID No. LCAC-A-5423.
Male pit bull terrier
This 5-year-old male pit bull terrier has a short white coat with red markings.
He is in kennel No. 23, ID No. LCAC-A-5322.
Female pit bull terrier
This 6-year-old female pit bull terrier has a short tan coat.
She is in kennel No. 24, ID No. LCAC-A-5410.
Male shepherd
This 1 and a half year old male shepherd has a short tricolor coat.
He is in kennel No. 26, ID No. LCAC-A-5424.
Female shepherd
This 2-year-old female shepherd has a short yellow and white coat.
She is in kennel No. 27, ID No. LCAC-A-5369.
Male pit bull puppy
This 5-month-old male pit bull puppy has a white coat.
He is in kennel No. 29, ID No. LCAC-A-5325.
Male Belgian malinois
This 1 and a half year old male Belgian malinois has a tan and black coat.
He is in kennel No. 30, ID No. LCAC-A-5409.
Male shepherd
This 2-year-old male shepherd has a short tan coat with white markings.
He is in kennel No. 31, ID No. LCAC-A-5344.
Male shepherd mix puppy
This 6-month-old male shepherd mix puppy has a black coat with white markings.
He is in kennel No. 32, ID No. LCAC-A-5408.
Female shepherd
This 10-month-old female shepherd has a tricolor coat.
She is in kennel No. 34, ID No. LCAC-A-5323.
‘Jojo’
“Jojo” is a one and a half year old female pit bull terrier with a short tricolor coat.
She is in kennel foster care, ID No. LCAC-A-5312.
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