The Long Return · Reports

Plans & Decisions Watch

A careful tracker for public plans, agency actions, meeting notices, infrastructure proposals, and future decisions affecting the region.
Independent civic work. This page does not speak for any tribe, government, department, elder, family, or institution. Verify time-sensitive details with official sources.

This track follows public plans and decisions that may affect Pit River and surrounding communities: agency actions, city and county meetings, state dockets, infrastructure proposals, land-use changes, grant plans, water/energy projects, housing, roads, schools, health, and emergency systems.

Plainly: what decision is being made, who is making it, what deadline matters, and how can people respond?

Scope

What belongs here

Public Plans

General plans, land-use changes, environmental review, agency programs, grant plans, infrastructure schedules, and public comment windows.

External Decisions

State, county, city, federal, utility, developer, and agency decisions that may affect Native people or surrounding communities.

Internal Impacts, Public Sources Only

When a public plan affects tribal/community life, report only what can be safely supported by public documents, official notices, or authorized materials.

Future Plans

Projects not yet decided but already moving through planning, scoping, funding, consultation, or early public discussion.

Decision Tracker

Minimum facts to collect

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Care Rule

Do not expose what is not yours to expose

Some plans may affect families, cultural places, sensitive records, or internal tribal matters. This track should not publish private information, protected cultural knowledge, confidential deliberations, personnel matters, or rumors.

When in doubt, write a Community Question Brief rather than a claim-heavy report.

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Current Items

Current 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.

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Fountain Wind Project

CEC docketOfficial record + interpretation

Tracks wildfire response, forestry, tribal cultural landscape, land-use, and visual-resource impacts in the CEC record.

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