Antony Kim was checking out Humboldt State University’s College Creek housing complex after it opened last year when he noticed something odd: The windows. Actually, it was a small sticker in a corner of the windows that caught his attention, a sticker from the National Fenestration Rating Council, a nonprofit that rates the energy […]
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Monster Trucking
Shell WindEnergy, the corporate giant looking at building a 50-megawatt wind farm on a coastal ridge south of Ferndale, has a message it would like everyone in Humboldt County to understand. When it comes to the Bear River Wind Power Project, tearing down homes and Victorian-era inns so that turbine-toting trucks will have room to […]
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EPIC Changes
The trees slated for cutting, mostly Douglas fir and marked with slashes of blue paint, were on the small side-about 18 inches in diameter. More striking, both for their size and number, were the stumps. Four to five feet in diameter, they stood as reminders that there was once an old-growth forest here. “People expect […]
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Legal Weapon
In a move characteristic of its legal tenacity, the Environmental Protection Information Center found a key witness who helped persuade a federal judge to temporarily halt Caltrans’ plan to widen Highway 101 through Richardson Grove State Park. The decision by U.S. District Judge William Alsup to issue a preliminary injunction against the project last month […]
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Invasion of Big Lagoon
A New Zealand mud snail is a tiny thing, no more than a quarter-inch long, often less. A dime dwarfs it. In fact, a dozen or more of the critters can easily fit on top of a dime. Harmless, seemingly. And if you really look at them, with their attractively whorled, generally brownish, conical shells, […]
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Waiting for Science
Mike Thompson says he’s not giving up. Speaking the day after more than 200 people turned out for a public hearing in Eureka to express opposition to the U.S. Navy’s plans to increase training off the West Coast, the Democratic congressman said he plans to introduce legislation aimed at prodding the Navy to restrict sonar […]