Cris Alarcon, News@InEDC.com

(PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA) Sept 19, 2022 — BREAKING – Newsom, Dahle to debate in late October ahead of election for California Governor.

California’s 1st Senate District contains all or portions of 11 counties, including Alpine, El Dorado, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, Sierra, Siskiyou, and Shasta.

Senator Brian Dahle:

“This drought has been so severe growers have had to cut back which has led to a lot of pain both here on the farm and at the table we’re not looking down the road and what we’re seeing is a diminished capacity to feed our own people there’s not enough being done to capture the water that falls during the good years.

“The time we need water most in california is August, September, and October before the storms come. This year it is going to be very low. In 2018 it was full and just running over water everywhere…

“That’s what the people that came and settled california saw and built. Do we do that anymore? We don’t think about the future generations.

“We have doubled the population of california since 1970s and we haven’t built any infrastructure like this. There’s a proposal to build sites reservoir which is just right…

“Gavin Newsom talks about climate change. What’s the solution to climate change? It’s like let’s catch the water because our snow is melting earlier. Let’s take care of the watershed that’s all he watershed above this lake that feeds this lake all the way to where my ranch is which is over 100 miles from here. There’s forests between here and there that need thinned. It’s really appalling to think that Californians put up with this. It doesn’t have to be this way…
This drought 2022 is terrible. Disastrous for …

“Look at that duff look how thick that is. Right that’s all we’re talking about…

“Got a hundred years of fire suppression and it’s not natural…

“All these fires that are burning all of california Gavin Newsom keeps talking about climate change and he’s he’s not doing anything for the forest … people in california are frustrated. This is our watershed. This is what fills up Shasta lake. Can you imagine what california would be like if we actually had a healthy forest that was thin and open where the water and the snow actually landed on the forest floor and came out into our into our meadows right. Purified, cold, better for fish, better for the wildlife the other things too. We wouldn’t have all this cost.

“These billions of dollars every year that we’re using uh to fight fire and we’re not we’re not doing anything about the problem. We’re just fighting fire and our fires are getting bigger. It’s time for spending more money to start doing recovery and repair. After it all happened, when we should have been doing it before it even started. If we actually solved the problem with forest fire our air quality would be better and Gavin Newsom wouldn’t have anything to talk about because you know he’s regulating diesel trucks. You know I’m not against having good clean emissions coming out of the tailpipe but the biggest tailpipe. If we solve that problem you know he wouldn’t have anything to to scare people with when you have a haze over you over your town or your city for months on end and everyone’s like it only happens during the summer when the fires are burning.

“it’s happening right in front of your eyes they don’t even show the facts of how it’s actually happening.

“…just put out some facts. In the first three months of 2018 were the wettest period of time in the history of our state since we’ve been keeping records. Now look this debate is not about climate change. This is about what are we going to do during climate change and how are we going to take care of californians. This state has not built any new water storage since the 60s, 1965 oroville dam. We have an opportunity to build sites reservoir which was allocated in the prop 1 bonds but it’s not been built and we have literally billions of dollars in our budget right now. We should be building the sites reservoir offstream storage project which benefits fish and the habitat. It benefits farms it benefits municipalities…

“last year the Dixie fire, the largest fire in the state of California burned almost a million acres… We need to do good conservation in our forest. We need to be thinning our forest…

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Managing Our Forests:

Managing our forests better is critical to community safety, watershed health, and our air quality. The state needs to help build the workforce and infrastructure so landowners can manage and protect the forests in California. Otherwise, we will lose millions more acres to catastrophic fires. Recently, I joined Mike Albrecht from Sierra Resource Management and other regional leaders in industry and government on a panel discussing the state’s wildfire crisis. This is an important issue to California’s environment and economy.

Bio: Brian Dahle represented California’s First Assembly District from 2012 until 2019. Before joining the Legislature, Brian served on the Lassen County Board of Supervisors for 16 years. Brian works across party lines for job creation and economic development in the rural North State and throughout California, pushing policies that keep families on their farms, protect water rights and support the business community. In addition to his service in elected office, Brian is a farmer and small business owner. Brian and his wife Megan live in Bieber with their three children.