·       The BBC will be filming the Sugar Pine Foundation’s sugar pine cone collections for the “Wild West” series. Filming will occur Sept. 10-14 at Sugar Pine Point State Park and Secret Harbor.

·       Senate Bill 168, which would protect forests, property and the lives of citizens, firefighters and emergency personnel from drone interference, passed out of the Senate and is now headed to the Assembly. It is authored by state Sen. Ted Gaines, R-El Dorado.

·       Cutthroat’s Saloon at Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe has created a beer club called Craftheads United in Lake Tahoe – or CULT for short.

·       U.S. Forest Service firefighters have responded to 1,361 fires this year that have burned 335,875 acres of national forest in California.

·       The annual conference of the Western Regional Panel on Aquatic Nuisance Species is Sept. 2-4 on the South Shore.