Entrepreneur turns straw into wattles BELFIELD, N.D. -- As Kurt Kordon was driving down the road he noticed the straw wattles -- long, thin straw bales seen in the ditches and medians along the ...

A customer at Friedman’s Home Improvement store in Santa Rosa on Monday afternoon purchased a tall stack of straw wattles used for erosion control and drove the unwieldy load, wobbling freely, through ...

Local hardware and garden supply stores are selling more sandbags and other erosion control items as another storm makes its way toward the Central Coast. The coming weekend storm follows a storm that ...

I don’t like to use redwood lumber as garden bed edging any more than necessary, and especially not 2-by-12 lumber, which needs to come from larger trees. The solution I’ve found is straw wattles.

Free straw wattles to control erosion will be available 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday in Paradise and Yankee Hill. The Butte County Resource Conservation District will be giving the wattles away at the ...

At Feb. 27’s Solana Beach City Council meeting, 24 seventh and eighth-grade students from Earl Warren Middle School presented a recommendation to further the city’s commitment to reducing plastic by ...

Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: While driving east on Thompson Street we noticed some straw ropes around some of the telephone poles, especially ...

El Paso County deputies investigate fatal dirt bike crash at San Felipe Park EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — A 52-year-old San Elizario man died after a dirt bike crash Saturday afternoon at San ...