
today
9 a.m. Doris Niles Humboldt County Science Fair Humboldt State University
read >10 a.m. Annual Juggling Festival Humboldt State University
read >10:30 a.m. Green Jobs Fair College of the Redwoods Downtown Site
read >11 a.m. Baby Read and Grow Program Humboldt County Library
read >1 p.m. Apple Solutions for Small Business See Event Description
read >4 p.m. Young Parent Support Group College of the Redwoods Kinship Site
read >6 p.m. The Tumbleweeds (cowboy songs) Chapala Cafe
read >6 p.m. Bon Swing Libation
read >6 p.m. Annual Pisces Party See Event Description
read >6 p.m. Annual Pisces Party See Event Description
read >7 p.m. DJ Ray Boiler Room
read >7:30 p.m. Arianna String Quartet Calvary Lutheran Church
read >7:30 p.m. A Midsummer Night's Dream Arcata High School
read >8 p.m. Eureka Symphony Concert Arkley Center for the Performing Arts
read >8 p.m. Humboldt Folkdancers Arcata Presbyterian Church
read >8 p.m. On the Wings of a Dove Carlo Theater (Dell'Arte)
read >8 p.m. Antigone College of the Redwoods
read >8 p.m. So Hum Tales Mateel Community Center
read >8 p.m. Gentle Thunder Arcata Playhouse
read >8:30 p.m. The Last Minute Men (international) Cafe Mokka
read >9 p.m. Taxi (rock & roll) Bear River Casino
read >9 p.m. Vintage Soul (R&B) Cher-Ae-Heights Casino
read >9 p.m. Bump Foundation Pearl Lounge
read >9 p.m. The Brothers Comatose (folk) Six Rivers Brewery
read >9 p.m. The Malone (rock Red Fox Tavern
read >10 p.m. Music by DJ Sidelines
read >10 p.m. DJ Ninja Retro Dance Party Aunty Mo's Lounge
read >previous columns
May 29, 2008
King's Salmon
Editor: The Karuk Tribe’s representative Craig Tucker has been making ...
read >USFS Knob Sale
By North Coast Journal Readers
Editor:
Seth Naman's story about the Salmon River kayak and raft race was almost as good as getting wet, but there's one point that bears correction ("Off the Pavement," June 5). Mr. Naman writes that "(t)he drainage basin of the Salmon River is almost completely covered by federally designated wilderness, making it one of the few streams in the region largely unimpaired by logging, agriculture or development."
His larger point, that the undamned wild Salmon River is one of our rich region's true treasure-chests, can't be emphasized enough. And it's true the river's health, and its ability to shelter those last spring chinook, stems largely from the fact that a lot of the Salmon River's flow (like Wooley Creek and the upper North Fork of the Salmon) descends from the high, snowy Marble Mountains, now protected as wilderness.
But the great tumbled-up heart of the Salmon River basin has been badly damaged by heavy logging and the roads built to haul the forests out. A disastrous cycle of clearcut logging, slash fires and salvage logging, courtesy of the Klamath National Forest, has left a lot of what used to be forests in fire-prone brushfields. Unfortunately, our Forest Service is still pumping out pointless old-growth logging projects that threaten the Salmon River, like the owl and salmon-killing Knob timber sale.
Scott Greacen, Executive Director,
Environmental Protection Information Center

















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