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Paul Gilchrist points out areas of the Pine Hill Ecological Reserve in Cameron Park where a fire break has been created between the reserve and neighboring homes. The goal is to create at least a 100-foot buffer and preferably 200 feet of defensible space between homes and vegetation in the reserve.

Putting Pine Hill in check ■ Cameron Park man brings local agencies together to manage fire fuels Dawn Hodson Staff writer Snaking its way through the heart of Cameron Park is the Pine Hill Ecological Reserve. Approximately 400500 acres in size, the reserve is part of the much larger Pine Hill Reserve system that consists of five separate areas of varying size, totaling more than 4,746 acres. Set aside to preserve its unique ecology, the reserve is home to eight rare plants, four of which are found nowhere else in the world. The other four are threatened or endangered species under both the state and federal endangered species acts.

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Controlled burns have been used in the past to help clean out underbrush in Pine Hill. Overgrown and thick with grasses, manzanita, oak and digger pine, the reserve is also a fire waiting to happen, according to concerned Cameron Park resident Paul Gilchrist. Calling himself a person who solves problems rather than sitting around and worrying about them, Gilchrist said he realized after the Camp Fire in Paradise that a similar, destructive blaze could just as easily break out

in Cameron Park. So in February 2019 Gilchrist set out to solve the problem posed by overgrown vegetation in the Pine Hill Ecological Reserve, starting up the Cameron Park Fire Safe Council and bringing together affected local agencies and residents. A February 2019 meeting at a fire station in Cameron Park included representatives from the Bureau of Land Management, California Conservation

Corps, staff from Congressman Tom McClintock’s office, Cal Fire, Growlersburg Conservation Camp, El Dorado County Fire Protection District, the Cameron Park, Rescue and El Dorado Hills fire departments and several area residents. The CCC already had a grant and Growlersburg inmates needed a project. The CCC brought 21 corps members in to cut brush and Cal Fire delivered a Growlersburg crew to the site. Close to 100 inmates were involved in cutting brush off Meder Road in Cameron Park. The BLM also brought in a crew that did a section along Jackie Road. That was all done in 2019. “I kept a scorecard,” said Gilchrist. “Some people were both surprised at how much had been done as well as that they were being held accountable.” Elizabeth Meyer■

As law enforcement agencies across California ban neck restraints after weeks of protest following the death of George Floyd allegedly at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, two local law enforcement agencies are taking diverging paths with one particular stranglehold technique — the carotid hold. The carotid hold, a type of stranglehold otherwise known as a sleeper hold, is a restraint technique typically involving the use of the arm around the neck of a subject. The tactic restricts blood flow to the brain and results in a loss of consciousness. The technique is different from the knee-to-theneck move used by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was charged with second-degree murder in 46-year-old Floyd’s death. Still, that hasn’t stopped police forces from rethinking their ■

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Montaño De El Dorado aims to offer an experience Sel Richard Staff writer “I want this to be a cake-topper for the community,” Vinal Perkins of Perkins Commercial Group said of his Montaño De El Dorado commercial and retail center. Phase 2 of the development proposal took front and center at this month’s Area Planning Advisory Committee meeting. The buildout would expand the area that currently houses Relish Burger and 36 Handles south along Latrobe Road to the Monte Verde Drive intersection. The 16.8 acre lot would include an amphitheater and a 63,000-square-foot, 100-room Marriott Springhill Suites hotel. A retail element encompasses eight buildings containing approximately 74,000 square feet of retail space with the buildings ranging in size from 3,200 to 30,000 square feet and individual suite sizes ranging from 1,000 to 30,000 square feet; 6,000 square feet of office space would be situated in the

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Save the Canal group files to appeal court’s decision Dawn Hodson Staff writer Save the Canal, a citizen’s group, on Tuesday filed an appeal to the El Dorado County Superior Court’s decision denying its petition to stop the El Dorado Irrigation District from piping 3 miles of the historical El Dorado Canal that runs through Pollock Pines. Judge Dylan Sullivan on April 17 ruled, “There was substantial evidence supporting the EID finding of no significant impact.” EID moved the proposed project from the existing canal alignment to instead run under Blair Road

but members of Save the Canal say changing the project at the 11th hour did not provide the analysis or plans needed for adequate decision making and public comment. The California Environmental Quality Act requires an environmental impact report be prepared to inform decision-makers and the public of all negative impacts resulting from a project and to provide alternatives. Save the Canal’s appeal contends that EID also failed to respond adequately to the following issues: • The open canal provides a natural firebreak and critical access to water for firefighting. EID claims the canal is not a viable firefighting resource even

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