The Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office in eastern Kern County will receive some new equipment, including two new drones, courtesy of a donation from a solar company with operations near Mojave.<\/p>\n
\u201cPatrol\u2019s going to benefit from this donation,\u201d Chief Deputy David Kessler said during Tuesday\u2019s Board of Supervisors meeting. \u201cIt\u2019s going to bring proactive tools out into the eastern Kern area that allows us to search infrastructure very quickly and efficiently with this new technology.\u201d<\/p>\n
The drones are part of a donation from Terra-Gen, a New York-based renewable energy company with a massive solar array, part of which sprawls onto Edwards Air Force Base.<\/p>\n
The donation was the only item on the supervisors\u2019 action agenda Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
Terra-Gen\u2019s donation of two drones, four ballistic shields and other miscellaneous equipment was valued at $82,489.<\/p>\n
Simon Day, Terra-Gen\u2019s head of solar development, said the company employs more than 120 people at its facility in Mojave.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur company and staff are very appreciative of the stellar work of the east Kern police department and we are pleased to provide this in-kind donation for public safety equipment,\u201d Day said at the meeting.<\/p>\n
The only other item supervisors took action on Tuesday was a motion from District 1 Supervisor Phillip Peters concerning growing numbers of gray wolves in California and their threat to livestock.<\/p>\n
Peters asked staff to draft a motion affirming the county\u2019s support for livestock producers and opposing the establishment of further wolf packs in the county. He also asked that the motion include language that Kern County be included in future conservation plans.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis resolution would send a clear message that we support conservation but not at the expense of the rural economy, public safety or the families that have depended on ranching for generations,\u201d Peters said.<\/p>\n
The motion passed unanimously.<\/p>\n
According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, a pack of gray wolves known as the Yowlumni Pack has its home range in eastern Tulare County and includes the lands of the Tule River Tribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office in eastern Kern County will receive some new equipment, including two new drones,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,7,6774,735,445,50171,13880,13456,13883,17523],"class_list":["post-90440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-california","tag-energy","tag-kern-county","tag-natural-environment","tag-natural-resources","tag-renewable-energy","tag-sustainable-development","tag-sustainable-energy","tag-wolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}