Pala Environmental Department PED PBMI Announcement
Join us in Pala’s Spring Recycling Challenge! You can help fund Pala’s youth garden at the Pala Youth Center just by recycling more in your curbside blue bins and around the reservation, or by dropping it off at the transfer station. It’s as simple as that!
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Pala Environmental Department PED PBMI Planet Pala
Bees – honeybees, bumblebees, and other native bees – are critical to healthy wildlands and crop production. Normally, bees in the garden are not a problem. But… large swarms can be dangerous! Even a single sting can be dangerous to someone with allergies to bee venom.
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Pala Environmental Department PED PBMI Announcement
Pala’s second annual riparian workshop was a resounding success!
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Pala Environmental Department PED PBMI Announcement
As we head into fall, the Pala Environmental Department is working on several projects that benefit our community. One new project we are working on involves the Pala Transfer Station. This is where most of the reservation’s waste gets handled. It costs a lot of money for the hard-working crew at Pala Tribal Services to pick up everybody’s trash, and even more money has to be spent on hauling all that waste to the landfill. In addition, a lot of what we throw away can be reused or recycled.
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Pala Environmental Department PED PBMI Announcement
Pala, CA – The Pala Band of Mission Indians and the Pala Environmental Department announces the 2014 PBMI Annual Water Quality Report.
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Pala Environmental Department PED PBMI Notice
Did you know that you can dispose of old tires at the Pala Transfer Station? We have waste tire clean-ups a few times a year, but you can drop your tires off with us any time! Here’s what you need to know about waste tire disposal.
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Pala Environmental Department PED PBMI Planet Pala
We all take the light in our homes for granted, until a bulb burns out! Old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs (the kind with a filament) will last around 1200 hours. That seems like a pretty long time… until you learn that compact florescent (CFL) bulbs can last up to 10,000 hours and light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs can last a whopping 50,000 hours!
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Pala Environmental Department PED PBMI Planet Pala
Every spring in Pala animals begin to stir and travel, including snakes. Pala has numerous species of snake, such as gopher snakes and king snakes. All of our snakes are beneficial, and most of these species are harmless. Pala does have a few species of rattlesnakes that are venomous and potentially dangerous; however, rattlesnakes do not want to bite you and are easy to avoid.
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Pala Environmental Department PED PBMI Planet Pala
Did you know that many of Pala’s native plants were traditionally used for more than one purpose? For instance, manzanita provided food, medicine, construction materials, and was used in rituals. The berries were used to make a tea-like drink; mashed into a jelly; or dried and ground into flour for mush. The seeds were ground into meal for mush or cakes or used in turtle shell rattles. A tea from the leaves was used to treat diarrhea and poison oak. The trunk and branches of the bush were used for firewood, construction, and making broom, tool and pipe handles.
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