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Current Watch List

A careful index of published reports, open issue desks, and update triggers.
Independent civic work. This page does not speak for any tribe, government, department, elder, family, or institution. Verify time-sensitive details with official sources.
Public update · checked 16 October 2026

What has changed since the older report

The October 16 briefing checks seven priority issues. Older findings remain useful history but should not be mistaken for a newly verified status.

Dates, sources and what remains unknown

The Watch Desk now carries final 2026 Tribal-bill outcomes and Fountain Wind denial, the amended Pit River Land Transfer Act status, post-Barbara litigation, and dated additions for the Mt. Shasta site inquiry, Sáttítla water sampling, and food-resilience funding. This later status layer supersedes stale stages in earlier snapshots but does not update unrelated unverified tracks.

Watch Desk

Watch Desk, organized by subject: the October 16 priority findings sit above the full tracking register. Every older record keeps its own last-check date.

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Current Watch List is a reader-facing index of public conditions, reports, and open issue desks. It does not add new claims by itself. It points readers to published reports, topic tracks, and update triggers.

Plainly: this is where ongoing concerns stay visible without turning rumor into fact.

Published Reports

Current report items

Planning Buildings and Services Across Pit River Country

Reader edition v1.3: a connected network of local spaces, shared hubs, utilities, and services, with priorities and long-term care.

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Pit River Election Results: 2025 to 2026

All eleven bands, officers, and boards; four clear main-council changes, six alternate changes, and unresolved name matches.

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Pit One Grade Rockfall Mitigation

Caltrans project information for SR 299 near Fall River Mills, with separate links to live travel conditions.

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Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums

ATALM public resources, Tribal Library Council meeting links, and cultural-institution support.

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Food Has to Get Here

Community briefingFood access / rural logisticsRecheck material project and policy changes

Tracks what public sources establish about greenhouse redevelopment, Humisoil, food-distribution resilience, and the information still needed to compare larger infrastructure options.

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A Data Center at the Old Crystal Geyser Plant?

Project WatchReported by community members — needs checking

Tracks an early community-relayed concern about a possible data-center inquiry and the public questions that should be answered before any decision moves.

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Fountain Wind Project

Project WatchOfficial record + interpretation

Tracks the public record, denial rationale, and local/Tribal concerns around the Fountain Wind Project.

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Open Issue Desks

Topic tracks now open

Ecological Conditions & Disaster Watch

Land, water, wildfire, forest, aquifer, contamination, drought, and disaster-risk questions.

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Public Health & Community Conditions

Substance-use harm, treatment access, prevention, grief, youth safety, family support, service gaps, and healing resources.

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Economic Distribution & Access

Jobs, grants, service distribution, tax benefits, utility or ratepayer burden, and whether benefits reach affected communities.

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Plans & Decisions Watch

Public plans, agency decisions, meeting notices, infrastructure proposals, and future decisions affecting Pit River and surrounding communities.

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Update Triggers

What should trigger an update?

Safety Rule

What does not belong here?

The Watch List should not publish private accusations, private health information, family conflict, protected cultural knowledge, or rumors about private people. Sensitive issues should be handled through public sources, resource guides, service gaps, prevention, safety, and repair.

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Newly Integrated Items

Newly Integrated Items

Mt. Shasta Data Center / Former Crystal Geyser Site

Updated briefingUnconfirmed inquiry

Tracks water, power, cooling design, public review, and local burden questions around a possible data-center use.

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Sáttítla / Medicine Lake: Beetle-Kill, Logging, and Monument Questions

Community briefingOfficial records + interpretation

Tracks forest-health work, sacred landscape protection, water stakes, and the contested future of Sáttítla Highlands National Monument.

Open →

Cultural Access & Ancestral Lands

Community briefingCultural accessMiddle-layer protocols

A Northern California briefing on Native cultural and religious access to ancestral lands, the gap between legal recognition and ground-level implementation, and the records/protocols that make access safer.

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Missing, Murdered, and Unsolved

Community briefingMMIP / Native safetyFeather Alert

A Northern California briefing on the MMIP crisis, why cases go unresolved, Pit River local context, Feather Alert rules, and practical safety tools for families and tribes.

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