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Ok country folks and mountain punks i have a water contamination mystery. I’m just now starting to connect the dots and I have no idea what is going on. First rain of the season presumably washes a bunch of minerals into the well and refills it so the usual hard water becomes extreme hard water. I can’t get it filtered enough and spend three days vomiting anything made with water. This also happened last year. Annoying to have to buy drinking water but after a few weeks it clears up. Problem number two is a mysterious skin issue. This also happened last year and I thought it was scabies that i picked up from clothes I bought. It got really bad before I got the medicated cream for it because I really did not expect to catch scabies while living alone in the wilderness but i did manage to pass it to a friend who borrowed my car. This mystery skin issue that we all thought was scabies last year is back now right at the same time as the water became undrinkable. It’s possible it could be some kind of bacterial infection but I really suspect a parasite. The only thing is that when i drank the water the only symptom i had was vomiting, nausea, stomach cramping. I never had diarrhea, which you would expect from giardia or some other parasite. So what my mystery well contamination and how do I get rid of it?

When our homeland was invaded, colonizers forcefully restricted our ancestors from practicing the old burns, and now the land is in a deep fire drought, overgrown from lack of tending and management.

hiyyiš: Fire is not the enemy. Colonization without thought, amplified by climate change and reckless short-sighted development, is the root of these painful megafires that we collectively feel the brunt of.

In a deal rich with historic significance, the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County closed escrow to purchase 1,199 acres in Big Sur as part of a $4.5 million acquisition involving the state and an Oregon-based environmental group.

The purchase secures a property for the tribe slightly larger than San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Located along Palo Colorado Road on the north side of the Little Sur River about 20 miles south of Monterey and 5 miles inland from the ocean, the land features endangered steelhead trout, old-growth redwoods, oak woodlands and meadows along scenic ridge tops.

Most important, it represents the first time that the Esselen Tribe has regained any of its former territory more than 300 years after Spanish missionaries upended the tribe's society, causing 90% of the roughly 1,000 Esselen people by the early 1800s to die of disease and other causes. Simply put, the Esselens are landless no more.

In a deal to preserve some of the planet’s rarest and most massive living things, a Bay Area conservation group has signed an agreement to purchase the second-largest grove of giant sequoia trees left in private ownership in the world.

Save the Redwoods League, based in San Francisco, will pay $3.3 million to buy 160 acres of sequoias — some more than 250 feet tall and 1,500 years old — in an area known as the Red Hill property. The trees sit in a remote, mountainous part of Tulare County adjacent to Giant Sequoia National Monument in the Southern Sierra, and survived a logging boom that decimated similar ancient trees from the 1850s through the 1950s.

New redwood park in Santa Cruz Mountains could come from Beall law

Clearing the way for what could potentially be the biggest open space deal in the Santa Cruz Mountains in years, Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed a bill that would streamline the sale of up to 6,500 acres of land owned by San Jose Water Company and to become a public open space preserve.

The bill would allow the sale of the land — which includes 1,100 acres of redwood forests and could easily eclipse $30 million in price — to the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District without approval from the state Public Utilities Commission. The commission regulates San Jose Water, and its processes are often bureaucratic and slow-moving.

Talks are still in the very early stages.