The Santa Lucia Conservancy has been granted more than $1.2 million from Cal Fire for a fuel break improvement project devised to dampen the spread of wildfire.

Partners in the plan included the Park District, the Santa Lucia Conservancy, Monterey County and Trout Unlimited. By 2018, the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District had acquired the property ...

Across Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties, the winning projects focus on low-lying, disadvantaged communities that face the threat of wildfires and of flooding from sea level rise and from major ...