Closure of Brawley Plant Threatens Imperial Valley Cattle Industry
There are just a few major beef processing plants in California. Each one sits at the center of an agricultural eco-system that depends on the plant as much as the plant depends on the ranches and dairy farms around it. The impending closure of a plant in Imperial County threatens to upset much of agricultural Southern California.
The Giving State: Caring for Marine Mammals in Sausalito
Here is another in our occasional series on volunteers in California. Today, we meet a woman who cares for seals and sea lions in Sausalito. One word of warning: some of the sounds you're about to hear may strike you like a seagull getting strangled, but it's just the elephant seals, and they are perfectly safe.