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ByHeatherHoelscher hhoelscher@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Heather on Twitter RED BLUFF The19thannualFall Craft Fair, hosted by the Red Bluff Community Center Auxiliary, is set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Community Center, 1500 S. Jackson St. The craft fair is free for the community a variety of booths will be featured at the event this year, said Auxiliary President Car- men Gleason. There were more than 30 booths at last year's event. All proceeds from the ven- dor fees and the food sales will go right back to the Community Center to assist with its care and maintenance and provide paint for the building and chairs for the lobby. The kitchen will be selling a variety of food and drink items, COMMUNITY CENTER 19thannual Fall Cra Fair set for Saturday By Juliet Williams The Associated Press SACRAMENTO California of- ficials still haven't taken steps to better track how $2 billion a year in voter-approved funding for mental health programs is spent, despite a critical audit 19 months ago that alerted officials to the problems, according to a re- port released Thursday by a state watchdog. Weak financial reporting and limited oversight of revenue have tainted Proposition 63, known as the Millionaire's Tax, the Lit- tle Hoover Commission said in the report sent to Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature. "Twelve years and $17 billion later the state still can't handily show the impacts of this funding, how it is spent or who is helped," the report said. Commission Chairman Pedro Nava, a former state lawmaker, said the panel heard many suc- cess stories from within the pro- gram, but too many were anec- dotal and there was no statewide data to back up the transforma- tive reports. CALIFORNIA Officials still not tracking mental health spending Staff report @redbluffnews on Twitter RED BLUFF Red Bluff Police are seeking information to help lo- cate the driver in an early morn- ing pursuit that started Thurs- day with a traffic stop in the area of Diamond Avenue. An officer attempted to make the traffic stop at 1:10 a.m. while on patrol after witnessing a white Ford Taurus speeding in the area of the 600 block of Di- amond. The driver, later identi- fied as Thomas James Pittman, 35, of Red Bluff, fled the area at a high rate of speed. The officer activated lights and siren, pursuing the Ford onto northbound Interstate 5, reaching speeds of about 100 mph. The vehicle exited I-5, heading west on Antelope Bou- levard about 70 mph, turning south onto Rio Street. The Ford eventually came to a stop in the alley on the North side of Ash Street, fleeing east on foot while a woman pas- senger headed west on foot. A search was made of the area, however, the suspects were not located. During the investigation, it was determined the vehicle was not stolen and evidence was ob- tained identifying Pittman as the driver. No officers nor civilians were injured during the pursuit. Any- one with information on the in- cident or Pittman's whereabouts is encouraged to call Red Bluff Police at 527-3131. RED BLUFF Policeseekdriverinmorningpursuit By Julie Zeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter PASKENTA Discussions started Wednesday, the first of two field trips into the four beetles proj- ect area with United States For- est Representatives, and con- tinued Thursday at a FireScape Mendocino indoor workshop here. The workshop was the ninth in a series of FireScape work- shops looking at forest health. Thursdays discussion was a continuation and culmination of discussion begun at Wednes- day's field trip, said Fire Manage- ment Officer Curtis Coots. During the field trip, partici- pants were tasked with figuring out what values were in the area from wildlife and old growth trees to archeological sites, fire intervals and vegetation types. They were given the opportu- nity to identify what treatment needed to be conducted in that area, Coots said. That could be anything from prescribed burns to mechanical methods such as a bull dozer. "It was a robust discussion," Coots said. "The predominant consensus was to bring fire back on landscape." Participants involved in- cluded the US Forest Service, water management agencies, Si- erra Pacific, Crane Mills and En- vironmental Protection Infor- mation Center, a public land ad- vocate. The workshops started in 2013 to get everyone on the same page regarding forest health and identify shared val- ues of interested stakeholders. Region Five Entomologist Cynthia Snyder talked about beetles and the infestation in the area of the Four Beetles proj- ect, which is largely in Tehama County with a small portion in Glenn County. She was followed by Kip Van de Water, a fire plan- ning specialist in the Klamath National Forest, and Dominick DellaSala, president and chief scientist for Geos Institute. "The greatest factor in the bark beetle (infestation) is the stand density and the extended drought has triggered the out- breaks," Snyder said. About 66 million trees are im- pacted, which has been the cat- alyst for projects like the four beetles. The area in southern Tehama County looks similar to some of the devastated areas a few years ago. While the rainfall for 2015- 2016, according to the Califor- nia Department of Water Re- sources, was 117 percent of nor- mal, the trees are still stressed from density and multiple years of drought conditions, Snyder said. In the past, trees could pro- duce resin and pitch the beetles out but they are not able to pro- duce the same levels of the nat- ural defense mechanism. "Right now, we hope to get ahead by addressing the stand density," Snyder said. "The drought triggered it, but most of the problem is stand density." With the high temperatures, one single female beetle can lay 60 eggs, of which about 50 sur- vive to adulthood, and create two to three generations of bee- tles within a single year, Sny- der said. With just three genera- tions of beetles, there can be as many as 150,000 tracing back to that first female. The purpose of thinning out the trees is to give the remain- ing trees a better chance. An attendee asked if there had ever been a tree mortal- ity or drought similar to the re- cent one. While there have been droughts in the 1920s and again in the 1970s, this time it is harder for the trees because they are MENDOCINO FOREST FOREST, TREE HEALTH DISCUSSED AT WORKSHOP PHOTOSBYJULIEZEEB—DAILYNEWS United States Forest Service Region Five Entomologist Cynthia Snyder talks about the bark beetle problem caused by drought in areas like the Four Beetles Project area, which is located primarily in Tehama County, at a community FireScape Mendocino workshop Thursday. Cynthia Snyder talks about the bark beetle problem caused by drought at a community FireScape Mendocino workshop. Community.....A3 Opinion............A4 Lifestyles........A5 Education........A6 Weather ........ A10 Sports.............. 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