Julie Cart is a projects reporter on CalMatters’ environment team who focuses on wildfires and natural resources. Her projects have included an examination of the state’s push to build massive offshore wind farms, a deep dive into the crisis of PTSD and suicide among California firefighters as wildfires escalate, and the vulnerability of the state’s coastlines to rising sea levels.
Julie’s work for CalMatters has received numerous national and regional journalism awards, including from Best of the West and the Society of Environmental Journalists. In addition, Julie and colleague Bettina Boxall won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for their 2009 Los Angeles Times series on wildfires in the West. In 2023 she won the international Covering Climate Now award, which honored her four-part series in CalMatters documenting the mental health crisis among the crews that fight California’s wildfires. That project was also recognized with an Emmy Award for a collaboration with CBS News.
Julie came to CalMatters after a long career at the Los Angeles Times, where she held many positions: sportswriter, national correspondent and environment reporter. She has reported from numerous countries, including South Africa, Argentina, Cuba and throughout Europe. In 2017 she reported on Gov. Jerry Brown’s trip to the United Nations Climate Change conference in Bonn, Germany.
En los pueblos rurales alrededor de Visalia, la sequía actual es indistinguible de la anterior o la siguiente. La sequía es una difícil situación perpetua en la región, que es un punto caliente para los pozos secos.
With most of the state gripped by extreme dryness, some conditions are better, some worse, than the last record-breaking drought. Over-pumping of wells hasn’t stopped. But urban residents haven’t lapsed back into water-wasting lifestyles.
Con la mayor parte del estado afectado por una sequía extrema, algunas condiciones son mejores, otras peores, que la última sequía récord. El bombeo excesivo de los pozos no se ha detenido. Pero los residentes urbanos no han vuelto a caer en estilos de vida que desperdician agua.
Ravaged by wildfire last summer, a state park — and all its redwood forests, creatures and trails — will undergo a transformation. Big Basin Redwoods will be back after a massive rebuilding project. But what will it look like?
The USDA declared California a natural disaster due to its severe drought, triggering aid for growers and ranchers who supply much of the nation’s food. Why has the federal government stepped in to help with California’s water woes?
El USDA declaró a California un desastre natural debido a su grave sequía, lo que provocó la ayuda para los agricultores y ganaderos que suministran gran parte de los alimentos del país. ¿Por qué ha intervenido el gobierno federal para ayudar con los problemas del agua en California?
Like house guests overstaying their welcome, foreign crabs have been nearly impossible to boot out of California. A new strategy, born of failure, may help combat armies of invasive plants and animals that are preying on vulnerable native creatures.
Al igual que los huéspedes de la casa que se quedan más tiempo de su bienvenida, los cangrejos extranjeros han sido casi imposibles de expulsar de California. Una nueva estrategia, nacida del fracaso, puede ayudar a combatir ejércitos de plantas y animales invasores que se aprovechan de criaturas nativas vulnerables.
After 40 years of debate about whether offroaders, endangered species and nearby towns can coexist, California’s coastal board ordered an end to offroad vehicles at the state park within three years. The decision capped a 12-hour meeting with fiery comments from about 200 offroaders, conservationists and residents.
Después de 40 años de debate sobre si los vehículos todo terreno, las especies en peligro de extinción y los pueblos cercanos pueden coexistir, la junta costera de California ordenó el fin de los vehículos todo terreno en el parque estatal dentro de tres años. La decisión culminó una reunión de 12 horas con comentarios enérgicos de unos 200 offroaders, conservacionistas y residentes.
Julie Cart is a projects reporter on CalMatters’ environment team who focuses on wildfires and natural resources.
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Julie Cart is a projects reporter on CalMatters’ environment team who focuses on wildfires and natural resources. Julie’s work for CalMatters has received numerous national and regional journalism awards, including from Best of the West and the Society of Environmental Journalists. In addition, Julie and colleague Bettina Boxall won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for their 2009 Los Angeles Times series on wildfires in the West. In 2023 she won the international Covering Climate Now award, which honored her four-part series in CalMatters documenting the mental health crisis among the crews that fight California's wildfires. Julie came to CalMatters after a long career at the Los Angeles Times, where she held many positions: sportswriter, national correspondent and environment reporter. She has reported from numerous countries, including South Africa, Argentina, Cuba and throughout Europe.