Catherine Blakespear

Let's keep it.

And State Senator Catherine Blakespear represents Northern San Diego and part of Orange County, and has come out in opposition.

She chairs the Senate Environmental Quality Committee.

It's really important that California continue to be a bulwark against the backsliding, and we continue to fight climate change and to protect our environment.

The first bill we'll talk about is Senate Bill 1135.

And that's a bill by Senator Blakespear that tried to do two things.

It tried to codify a program that used to exist, the Human-Wildlife Conflict Program at CDFW.

And it also sought to change how The wolf livestock compensation program at the department is rolled out.

So we were pleased with the amendments we got to that bill.

And that was, as you mentioned, signed by the governor yesterday, just before he had that fireside chat with Secretary of Natural Resources, Wade Crowfoot.

Senator Blakespear was in the building for that signing.

And yeah, that bill is now law.

But what's more important or just as important in this conversation on wolves is we have a bad bill on the governor's desk, Senate Bill 1135, which had human wildlife coexistence.

And in this bill, Catherine Blakespear took the wolf livestock compensation pilot program, which was designed to help the ranchers, help the people, as you know, Bill, here in California, because we went from one pack to 12 packs.

Some are now arguing outside the department's official number of 12 packs.

That's closer to 16 to 17 packs.