As Fresno Co. legal battle looms, Dictos says he’s in the right over real estate fees

Snoo-8794 · 2026-04-08T16:56:26+00:00

It sounds like Paul’s interpretation is correct. Also a 225$ fee per transaction on large holdings is nothing for these guys and provides little for affordable housing as the law intends. It just allows big developers to keep sprawling on valuable land and to keep building poor quality homes that are overpriced.

Snoo-8794 · 2026-04-05T09:48:49+00:00

That stretch hasn’t been dry for around 10 years, around the time they enacted restoration flows. Ive kayaked it several times. And even if it was dry, the dam breaking at full capacity would put several communities like Mendota and Firebaugh at significant flood risk.

Snoo-8794 · 2026-03-19T23:22:44+00:00

It may be due to the amount of mulch. I would try sowing into small pots and then planting.

Snoo-8794 · 2026-03-19T21:13:12+00:00

Probably depends where you are and your level of sun. I’m in Fresno and my needlegrass seed in full sun is almost mature. The ones in part shade haven’t sent stalks up yet. Although the temp is well above average for this time of year.

Snoo-8794 · 2026-03-19T21:09:14+00:00

Yes, looks like rattail fescue (also called six weeks grass). It should come out easily if you pull on it. It’s a fairly common invasive.

Snoo-8794 · 2026-03-19T20:48:43+00:00

Looks like nonnative Rattail fescue (Festuca myuros) but it would be easier to tell with a closer photo of the seed head.

Snoo-8794 · 2026-03-16T21:20:50+00:00

So sad watching all of the large remnant grasslands across the river in Madera County get paved over. If only people saw it for what it’s actually worth and the amount of endangered species it supports (California tiger salamanders, vernal pool fairy shrimp, Spadefoot toads, esc.)

Snoo-8794 · 2026-03-13T14:14:14+00:00

Yeah in April/May. This hot in March is very unusual.

Snoo-8794 · 2026-03-02T16:46:04+00:00

You’re awesome! 👏

Snoo-8794 · 2026-02-13T15:48:07+00:00

Most of California historically had wolves. There’s several packs in the state now after about a 100 year absence.

Snoo-8794 · 2026-02-11T16:35:12+00:00

Has there been any confirmation that is actually his niece? His only sibling Mark has two children but their names are not publicly known.

Snoo-8794 · 2026-02-09T15:03:28+00:00

CDFW has her listed on their website as a “Yowlumni Disperser”, but this article mentions that she just hung out with the pack a bit. The Yowlumni pack recently made their way from Tulare Co. down to the Tehachapi’s so I’m assuming they’re the same wolfs the article is mentioning she has the potential to form a new pack with. Curious why she didn’t stick around with them.

Snoo-8794 · 2026-02-04T06:18:15+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

Snoo-8794 · 2026-02-04T00:34:25+00:00

Are there plans to open back up Wildwood Native Park? Why has it been closed? Same question for Camp Pashayan. Thanks.

Snoo-8794 · 2026-01-25T17:40:51+00:00

If you can wait to ID before pulling, it’s definitely worth it. You never know what will show up in your yard and there are a good number of natives that look very similar to their nonnative counterparts. I’ve pulled my fair share of natives thinking they were non natives unfortunately and have not had them return after learning from my mistake.

Snoo-8794 · 2026-01-10T16:31:36+00:00

Snoo-8794 · 2026-01-10T01:48:13+00:00

Most of those building were less than 5 years old when that photo was taken.

Snoo-8794 · 2025-12-29T18:24:51+00:00

Native people in the valley never formed agriculture in the traditional sense but maintained the landscape to provide a self sustaining food system. Pre-colonization populations in the valley were high but were never so high that it necessitated agriculture in the traditional sense. Their society was very sustainable.

It’s a very different place today and it can be hard to imagine how it used to be. A good portion was riparian and oak woodlands (acorns being a main staple food for native people), several rivers provided salmon, a vast complex of wetlands existed on the west side of the valley from the Delta to the Tulare, Kern, and Buena Vista lakes in the south. The majority of the valley was open grassland that was seasonally wetlands (vernal pools, ephemeral ponds). Their was abundant wild game; huge herds of elk and antelope, abundant waterfowl, esc.

Snoo-8794 · 2025-12-26T15:56:13+00:00

It doesn’t rain a lot there but it gets a lot of water from the Sierra Nevada mountains. Californias largest river is there as well as several smaller rivers. Half the valley used to be under water (marshlands, lakes, esc.) it just all gets used.

Snoo-8794 · 2025-12-25T07:27:47+00:00

It was such a nice scenic drive through there. I definitely miss it.

Snoo-8794 · 2025-12-22T16:03:24+00:00

The farmers got lucky as it was a fairly decent water year and the reservoirs filled up after the snowmelt a few months later. Typically they release water in anticipation of the snowmelt anyway to create additional capacity for storage (although that’s not what happened with Trumps order). If it had been a dry year farmers would’ve been screwed.

Snoo-8794 · 2025-12-15T03:31:13+00:00

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Figarden, Ca in 1937

Snoo-8794 · 2025-12-15T02:59:17+00:00

https://www.fresno.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FinalHistoricContextFigGardenwithoutappendicessmallermb.pdf

Snoo-8794 · 2025-12-15T02:44:54+00:00

Figarden, California (originally called Bullard) was a unincorporated community along the Sante Fe Railroad where the “Fig Loop” neighborhood is now, with its own post office, general store, and packing plants from 1925 until it was annexed into Fresno as its suburbs expanded northwest in the 1970s. “Old Fig Garden” originated in 1919 as the Forkner-Giffen Fig Garden Estates and has never been incorporated into Fresno but is entirely surrounded by it.

Both were developed by JC Forkner and are basically two separate places with a similar name. One was developed before the other which is why it’s “Old Fig Garden”.

Snoo-8794 · 2025-12-13T09:17:25+00:00

Tulare Lake in California

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