Bettina Boxall covers water issues and the environment for the Los Angeles Times. She shared the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting with colleague Julie Cart for a five-part series that explored the causes and effects of escalating wildfire in the West. She began her journalism career as a photographer at a small Texas daily and reported for newspapers in Vermont and New Jersey before joining The Times in 1987.
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The state’s focus on fighting fires has some experts asking, “Does California need a new agency to focus on wildfire prevention?”
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A month ago, the 5-day average of deaths in Los Angeles County was 12. As of Saturday, average daily deaths had climbed to 62, a 416% increase.
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The temporary and limited stay-at-home order that takes effect Monday in Los Angeles County is not as restrictive as limits adopted earlier this year.
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This year’s Castle fire killed hundreds of giant sequoias, the latest in a string of Sierra Nevada wildfires that is taking an alarming toll on the world’s most massive trees.
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Two men were arrested Saturday on suspicion of battery at a Beverly Hills rally for President Trump.
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The explosive Creek fire, fueled by beetle-killed trees, is a hint of the Sierra Nevada’s future unless California greatly expands prescribed burns.
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Wildfire burned one of the world’s largest forests of Joshua trees, charring more than 1.3 million trees. The 43,273 acres of the Dome fire are forever transformed.
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Many of California’s largest wildfires have been started by dry lightning strikes
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Does Orange County need all that expensive water from Poseidon’s proposed seawater desalination plant in Huntington Beach?
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John Muir, a towering figure among environmentalists, made harmful and disparaging remarks about Native Americans and Black people.