Almost every seat was filled in the Nevada County Board of Supervisors chambers Tuesday afternoon for what seemed like an unlikely topic of interest: a presentation on fuels reduction efforts in Apache County, Arizona. But the presentation by Doyel Shamley, whose trip to California was paid for by the California Association of Business, Property and Resource Owners, was as much about the political subtext as it was about solving a very real problem in the Tahoe National Forest. Shamley, who is a natural resources coordinator for Apache County, was invited by Supervisor Ed Scofield to make the informational presentation. Shamley …













