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District 1 Acting Tree Crew Supervisor Michael Quinliven cuts down a hazardous tree during the disastrous October northern California fires..

My crew, Ukiah District 1 Tree Crew South, and I started working the Redwood Valley Fire Complex in Mendocino County on Oct. 9. The fire had started Oct. 8, and was ravaging the forest north of Highway 20, west of the Mendocino Na ...

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The original Cedar Creek Culvert, outlet apron and plunge pools before fish passage upgrades.

Below U.S. Highway 101 in rural Northern California, the Cedar Creek Arch Culvert Repair will have a huge impact for the Pacific Lamprey’s ecosystem. The Cedar Creek project is 200 feet below U.S. Highway 101, approximately two mi ...

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Retired astronaut Dr. Stephen Robinson (right) tells four-year-old Samuel that his wish to see a real spaceship is being granted by Make-A-Wish® Northeastern California and Northern Nevada chapter. In January, Samuel and his family will visit the Kennedy Space Center..

Four-year-old Samuel, whose mother is Francis Brown in the Division of Local Assistance in Headquarters, was diagnosed in October 2016 with Wilm’s tumor kidney cancer. Samuel, like other Make-A-Wish® kids, made three wishes. His f ...

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Caltrans Cares Team from left to right front to back: Angela Shepard, Mariano Pontillas, Zilan Chen, Pete Spaulding, and Vivian Nguyen are kneeling. Matthew Friedman, Ann Mahaney, Blair Thompson, Cindy Pribyl, Katelynn Krycia, Jeaneete Mactzul and Al Kwan are standing in the middle row and Lee Beebe, Peter Meshot, Isabel Meshot, Brian Maguire, Monique Maguire, Alex Kenefick and Ted Evans are in the back row.

A group of Caltrans employees got together Thanksgiving morning and ran to feed the hungry, supporting the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services, along with nearly 29,000 other people. In just one month, 27 employees paid the $ ...

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Hundreds of Sacramento-area Caltrans employees attended the TransLab Caltrans Diversity and Disability Awareness Day at lunch time on Oct. 4.

On Oct. 4, Caltrans employees sampled food from Pakistan, Korea, Mexico, and more as a Chinese Dragon and Korean dancers performed in the Caltrans Sacramento TransLab yard. Caltrans Discrimination Complaint Investigator George Va ...

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Caltrans District 8 Public Information Officer Tyeisha Prunty

Due to wear and tear, growth and demand, California’s road systems are continually been repaired, improved, and expanded. And while this work eventually benefits us, it is often an inconvenience. The job of a Caltrans Public Infor ...

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Caltrans earned the SAVE International Gordon Frank Award for using innovative business solutions to improve processes to better serve the public.

SAVE International presented Caltrans’ Office of Innovative Business Solutions the Gordon Frank Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Government and nationally recognized Caltrans’ process improvement program within the Caltrans ...

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The California Transportation Foundation (CTF) is active on social media. Caltrans employees are invited to connect and view photos of fundraisers, thank you notes from scholarship recipients, and videos of the people, programs, p ...

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Caltrans Maintenance Lead Worker Mark Charles (left) and Equipment Operator II Jerry Smith’s quick thinking extinguished a grass fire before it threatened homes in rural Sonora.

Quick thinking by a pair of Caltrans maintenance workers likely prevented a small fire from doing significant damage this November in the Sonora area. Caltrans Maintenance Lead Worker, Mark Charles and Equipment Operator, Jerry S ...

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