The bear came through the property we live on this afternoon! We're on the Occidental Road end of Jonive Rd, on the east side. The bear came from the woods to the North/East of us and headed West...

I lived on a remote ranch north of Geyserville, and after a large salmon barbeque/party once, several (3, mom and 2 half-grown cubs) were drawn down from Lake county (several miles away) to check it...

Thanks so much for posting this video of what looks like a young cinnamon phase black bear. You made our family's day! We have been informally studying black bears daily, all through winter and...

I found this boy-scout advisory on the difference between bears:

The National Park Rangers are advising hikers in Glacier National Park and other Rocky Mountain parks to be alert for bears and...

Hi Scott, I was so pleased to hear that there is a bear in your area, and also worried. I moved from Sebastopol to the foothills a few years ago, right into bear country, and have lived in close...

Those photos are so great! Thanks for sharing. I was just looking at some pictures of elephants and cheetas a friend of mine sent me from Africa and then--a bear in our back yard.

Lilith

I lived on Vancouver Island for 13 years so saw black bears often. When cubs are two years old, the mother kicks them out and they often wander toward civilization as they learn to live...

This bear has got to be a California Black Bear, which, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, "vary in color from tan or brown to black". From my quick research on Brown Bears...

This is a black bear, which can take on many different colors, from blue to cinnamon or even silver (I've seen them in all these colors over the years).

This is likely the same bear sited on...

Wow! This is fascinating and exciting. It looks like all of our efforts in fighting for the environment are paying off.

I'd like to know how this bear got here and from where. It looks like a...

11am @ Juilliard park in Santa Rosa, Ca 95401

Permitted March to Courthouse Square, corner Mendocino and 3rd in Santa Rosa
for Rally and More.

Sponsored by Label GMO's Sonoma County and...

Just excellent! Exactly what I've said for years...Big Industry and money in the pockets. I'm grateful that more and more people are waking up to the pseudo-science that has been propagated on us in...

Here's a great post by Donna Westfall that appeared as a comment on the PD's article on the fuss over The Next Step newsletter advocacy against fluoridation:

As a former city councilwoman, I was...

Join the growing grassroots movement in Marin and Sonoma Counties. Marin
County has fluoridation which we want to get rid of.
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Dr. Paul Connett PhD will present new and largely...

Dr. Connett's presentation at the Glaser Center on 25 March 2013 covered, among many other things, the weakness of the evidence of "oral health benefits" and the lie-by-statistics methods used by the...

Paul Connett said in that video that speaking this scientific info to Lynn Silver-Chafin was like speaking to a robot, and that her job depended on getting fluoride in Sonoma County. It seems that...

You know that we're never going to hear the truth about why fluoridation of our water is so important to the supes or to our county health officer, Dr. Silver-Chaflin. I've said before that I believe...

I so appreciate your time and energy to report this educational meeting presenting Dr. Connett for the community. I had planned on coming but wasn't able to. Many of his points were the same as I've...

Last night, I attended an outstanding presentation by Dr. Paul Connett regarding water fluoridation. For those of you who weren't able to attend, I wish to tell you that he is an engaging, dynamic...

I use to be a dental hygienist for 26 years. I've written lengthy articles on this forum about fluoride in the past. I know the politics and the history. It's been a 38 year research project for me....

This is a letter i wrote to the press democrat who's staff writer Mr. Gullixson seems extrordinairly in favor of water fluoridation. ..."Lets take a look at this issue of fluoridation pragmatically ....

Thanks to all Waccob posters who have taken time to post some truly intelligent, articulate and enlightening comments against forced fluoridation of our precious water by the "enlightened" Sonoma...

I just watched this fairly long but very informative investigative video (cited in an earlier post) about fluoridation and am amazed that our County Supervisors are moving this proposal through. I...

More information regarding the dangers of fluoride:

CDC and ADA Now Advise to Avoid Using Fluoride

A new study in the Journal of the American Dental Association finds once again that, contrary...

I am continually amazed at the ability of taxpayer funded public health experts to throw out numbers like this without accountability or questions from our taxpayer financed elected officials who are...

Robert Isaacson served on a committee convened by the National Research Council (NRC) in 2003 at the request of the EPA to study the effects of fluoride in drinking water. He is a distinguished...

I have been reading plenty about the negative side of using fluoride and how it is produced- its toxic...

But I have not found anything about the "good" fluoride- the production and where it comes...

I have three responses to that question:

1. Even if it does---and that's debatable---are you seriously prepared just because of that "fact" to overlook its extreme toxicity? Do some research on...

“She [Dr. Silver Chalfin, Sonoma Co. Public Health Officer ] also described a CDC study finding that every dollar spent on fluoridation results in $38 in savings on dental care.”

I would think the...

Thank you for clarifying your meaning. I do feel that we humans have an inherent bullshit detector and you described it perfectly! There are all kinds of "facts" thrown around, but in spite of them,...

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Board of Supervisors takes next step toward fluoridating county water...

I am becoming more and more convinced that there must be some money exchange going on between fluoride producers and our supes. After all, the pesticide industry where the fluoride will come from, is...

Thanks to the woman who posted those several passionate comments in the Press Democrat FOR fluoridation. While employing almost ALL possible grammatical variations of the root "fluoridate" along the...

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Board of Supervisors takes next step toward fluoridating county water...

Hello Community! Please pass the word and raise awareness and continue to put pressure on our board of supervisors regarding this critical issue... Below, I have pasted a copy of what I sent to the...

Here's that petition:
https://www.change.org/petitions/governor-jerry-brown-appoint-a-new-president-of-cpuc-immediately-2?utm_campaign=mailto_link&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition

Under the new "Corporate Personhood" PG&E should have been given the same responsibility and charged with involuntary manslaughter for their misconduct in not spending ratepayer fees on the San...

Whether you spoke or not, please send your comments re: being forced to pay to opt-out of Smart Meters to:


The Public Advisor
California Public Utilities Commission 505 Van Ness...

If you opted out of the Smart Meter program, you should have seen a separate charge appearing on the FRONT page of your monthly bill. On my November statement I didn't see the charge on that page. ...

Sorry I did not see you at this meeting.

I was speaker #59; all the speakers' testimony before me I concurred with. I spoke for the heart of the solution.

We know that PG&E operates as...

I have never had flouride. My son has never had flouride. We have both had one cavity each in our lives.....He is 23 and had a "white cavity"...no one knows what causes them, they are internal. I...

I have been charged a one-time $75 fee and am paying $15 a month for opting out. This seems ridiculous: $180 a year more and I'm getting nothing for it.

It was easy to google this...Fluoxetene Hydrochloride is in Prozac, Prolixin, and antipsychotic prescrition drug used to treat schizophrenia and 5 Fluorouracil used in cancer treatments that is so...

The citizens of San Bruno have started a petition asking Gov. Brown to remove Michael Peevey from the board of the CPUC, citing incompetence in the handling of PG & E's responsibility for the deadly...

There is a little white truck running around the West County with address list in hand switching meters. They switched many this past week.

Dear Stop Smart Meters! supporter:

As bad as the extortionate and punitive smart meter 'opt-out' fee policy seems at the moment, utilities in California are pressuring the CPUC to increase the...

I just want to point out that the fact that the votes haven't yet been counted isn't a symptom of voter fraud. Provisional and vote-by-mail ballots all have the signatures checked by a real live...

It is clear that when we have informed choice; it's easier to "move our money"; which is why the prop 37 opponents are pouring so much $ into it.

Hostess is laying off workers 'cause so many...

The roster of whicjh companies are against this proposition is like an unveiling of the corporate villains on our grocery shelves! So Pepsi owns Naked Juice (!), a brand I have bought many times. But...

see who is funding the ads against prop 37

https://organicconsumersfund.org/label/prop-37-funders.cfm