Pretty decent summary of the Richardson Grove controversy from a Bay Area television station, including comments from Kerul Dyer, Rob McBeth, Kim Floyd and Lost Coast Brewery.
Somehow I missed the nude-in.
This article appears in Holiday Gift Guide 2010.
“Somehow I missed the nude-in.”
Sorry Hank. You were obviously not invited for multiple reasons…
Ha!
Muskrat cracking a joke, and a good one at that?Sometimes the world surprises you.
We need to poke around Alameda’s business and start throwing some weight into their issues…see how they like it. One thing to admire the ambiance and come to Humboldt for camping-quite another to own a business or live here.
If you read any blog or news outlet from outside Humboldt that’s related a story on richardson grove (should still be easy to find, I believe it was a journal blog that posted several links when an AP story circled the nationals), commentary from non-locals is almost unanimously against the “improvement” project in any way shape or form. How disgusting that locally the true nature of the plan is ducked and dodged in coverage and comments!
wow…five minutes of coverage…predictably, the news plays the hot topic “job” game, saying it’s a great thing for truckers…with no mention whatsoever of how smaller, more local truckers who are and have been in business for a very long time, will get wiped out. There’s no need to “improve” the freeway through richardson grove whatsoever, except to statisfy the national…not local…plan of neverending expansion.
Thanks Hank…
You know, I bet we are BOTH much funnier AND funner…in person 😉
Request: Sever the roots of ancient redwood trees.
Question: Will cutting 100+ year old redwood roots have an adverse affect on connected trees’ survival?
Glass-Half-Full Consensus: there is a 98%+ chance that severing the roots of 100+ year old redwood trees will NOT hinder their survival.
Population’s Reply: Request to sever the roots of ancient redwood trees denied. A 100% assurance cannot be given as to the future wellbeing of a few of the few countable remains of an entire species of beneficial life forms.
McKinleyville has a sign that in some superficial way makes me proud to live here…it reads:
McKinleyville…where horses have the right of way.
…and for superficial reasons I respect the claim twice what I would without it. Why then that national politics and local journalistic casuality state:
Humboldt County: Where our treasured ancient redwood trees don’t have the right of way? Caltrans and the freeways have the right of way?
Old Growth Groves should be given every accomodation to expand, not be further compromised. It’s a no-brainer.
Thank you for your comments Mckinleyvillain.
I have to ask: Is the 98% risk assessment is hypothetical or if you have (mis)info from Caltrans about this? Do you feel that Caltrans can do what they are saying, by not severing roots over 2″ diameter while excavating(with air? hot air…) up to 5 feet deep around the shallow root systems of these ancient trees? After wards, paving, compacting and filling these damaged roots? POI: Any type of excavation, air or not, will damage the finest most fragile parts of the roots, the root tips.
Root tips are the only way that plants and trees can uptake water and nutrients. Greenwash, greenwash, greenwash!
Two examples of root issues:
– The most visited Giant Sequoias in Sequoia National Park have large platforms around the bases of those most visited trees which also include signs and warnings about simply walking on the gentle root systems. I can only imagine that the Coastal variety of redwoods have even shallower root systems than their giant cousins from a much drier climate.
-The Avenue of the Giants. Many seem to feel that Caltrans caused the dead tops along the Avenue of the Spike tops by changing the hydrology of the Avenue(which used to be old highway 101) when the four lane bypass was built in the 60’s. Caltrans has yet to prove that the RIP(Richardson Grove “Improvement” Project) will not have the same effect on the Richardson Grove old growth.
PS. The horses used to have the right of way. Now the houses do…
I thought it was obvious…my 98% is completely made up, though exists belonging to the fullest of the glass-is-half-full opinionators in favor of the “project”…which includes the project coordinators themselves. They can’t escape common sense in their certified certificates of guaranteed confidence. It’s ignorant to think the existing freeway hasn’t done and isn’t doing enough damage already.
giggle. I Jeff’s use of a photo of a 19 line freeway with the caption of, “Artist conception of 101 through Humboldt County after the Big Box invasion”.
Just click on his name to see it. That folks is why opponents have lost all creditability.