This week we’re sharing an Indian Country Today story on bringing the Hoopa Valley up to internet speed. We’ve also got updates on where wind power plans are right now and the road ahead. Dell’Arte’s holiday show Nightlight gets a review and a new(ish) winter squash gets the holiday appetizer treatment. Hit subscribe for weekly […]
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Tribes Decry Klamath Water Proposal
The Karuk and Yurok tribes issued a warning this morning that a Bureau of Reclamation proposal to reduce flows on the Klamath River could kill off an entire salmon run in advance of a historic dam removal and restoration effort aimed at saving the fish. Noting that tribes and state officials just last week celebrated […]
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Mentor Condor 746 Being Moved Due to Bird Flu Concerns
The first California condor in more than a century to land on the North Coast arrived by plane March 25 from an Idaho breeding facility. For nearly a year, the 7-year-old male known as No. 746 — with the nickname Paaytoqin, which in Nez Perce means “come back” — has helped raise the eight condors […]
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Commercial Crab Season Delayed
The commercial Dungeness crab season has been delayed until at least Dec. 31 in Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte counties due to poor meat quality, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The opening date is pending another round of testing, a news release states. “If results indicate good quality, the fishery will […]
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Karuk Sacred Lands Legislation Moves Forward
A little more than one year after being introduced by North Coast Rep. Jared Huffman, the Katimiîn and Ameekyáaraam Sacred Lands Act has passed out of the House Natural Resources Committee, bringing a nearly decade-long effort by the Karuk Tribe to once again care for these lands one step closer to fruition. The 1,200 acres […]
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Bids for Humboldt’s Two Offshore Wind Lease Sites Hit $331M
The two lease sites for the development of wind farms off the Humboldt County coast went for $331.5 million in yesterday’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management auction, the first ever held for areas on the West Coast. The highest bidders were RWE Offshore Wind Holdings at $157.7 million for 63,338 acres and California North Floating, […]
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Going, Going, Gone: Feds Hold First-Ever Auction for California Offshore Wind Leases
Federal officials today will auction off leases for 583 square miles of ocean waters off California that could lead to the nation’s first massive floating wind farms. The auction — the first on the West Coast — includes five sites in deep ocean waters about 20 miles off Morro Bay and Humboldt County. The leases […]
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By the Numbers: California’s Mild 2022 Wildfire Season
As California emerges from its “peak” wildfire season, the state has managed to avoid its recent plague of catastrophic wildfires. So far in 2022, the fewest acres have burned since 2019. State Emergency Services Director Mark Ghilarducci said California had “a bit of luck” with weather this summer. Although enduring yet another drought year, much […]
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Lead Ammo in Poached Elks Could Have Killed Condors
Two elks were killed by poachers using lead ammo in an area frequented by the California condors now flying free in the region, putting the endangered birds’ lives in danger. According to a release from the Northern California Condor Restoration Program — a partnership between the Yurok Tribe and Redwood National and State Parks — […]
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Sunny Skies for Holiday Week but Sneaker Waves Possible Turkey Day
The sun is forecast to shine across the region for Thanksgiving holiday week with temperatures warming up in the next few days, especially inland. The coast will see mostly cloudy to mostly sunny skies over the week (although there is a slight chance of showers Tuesday) with highs in the high 50s to low 60s, […]
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Slashing Greenhouse Gases: California Revises Climate Change Strategy
The California Air Resources Board this week unveiled a new version of its highly-anticipated strategy for battling climate change, setting more ambitious targets for cutting greenhouse gases and scaling up controversial projects that capture carbon. If adopted by the air board at its Dec. 15 meeting, the plan would radically reshape California’s economy, alter how […]
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Condor A6 Joins Growing North Coast Flock in the Wild (with Video)
After several tries, A6 — the last of a second cohort of California condors that arrived in mid-August as part of the Yurok Tribe-led effort to return the endangered species they hold sacred and know as prey-go-neesh to its historic range — is now flying free. The eighth of the massive birds with a nearly […]