There’s a bright new beacon of hope out on the Samoa Peninsula, which we figure dune lovers and gotta-go antsy foot-hoppers can’t help but appreciate. Yes, it’s a public portable toilet, rented for $80 a month from B&B by the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District for the benefit of those frequenting the wilds […]
Environment / Natural Resources
Posted inNews
Birds! Count ’em
You see this little bird? Just chillin’ with her gull thangs? She counts and so do they. Yes, we’re in the midst of the 115th Christmas Bird Count, and birding teams throughout the Western Hemisphere and Antarctica are venturing out to count all the birds they see within a designated sphere. Locally, a couple of […]
Posted inNews
O, the Pelican
Pelican lovers and meaning seekers, you have just a few more days to see the documentary Pelican Dreams at the Minor Theatre in Arcata. The film, by award-winning filmmaker Judy Irving (The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill) is about pelicans but also much more than pelicans. Says the film’s website: “The film is about wildness: […]
Posted inNews
Not Exactly Curtains for Richardson Grove Widening
The curtain lowered this week on Caltrans’ plan to widen U.S. Highway 101 through Richardson Grove — a plan so controversial it’s inspired numerous lawsuits and even mass naked supplications down among the lush giants. But it could rise again. In a news release, the Environmental Protection Information Center announced that “Conservation groups and local residents this […]
Posted inNews
Korbel Sawmill Is Closing
The California Redwood Co. announced today it’s closing the Korbel sawmill in February. The company, a subsidiary of Green Diamond Resources Co., has been trying to sell the mill since mid-October. Local blogger and Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation & Conservation District Commissioner Richard Marks posted yesterday on his site that he’d heard from an inside source […]
Posted inNews
Steamin’ it up for a Cause
The Arcata Ridge Trail got a large shove forward Saturday at the Arcata Community Center, where a host of folks turned out for Cirque Disco-Leil, a steamy, disco-themed event aimed at funding a trail bridge over Janes Creek. Between Caravan of Glam, Va Va Voom Burlesque Vixens, Samba Quente and the hot moves of one […]
Posted inNews
Arkley’s ‘Dog Ranch’ on the Market
Ever dream of owning a property that offers room to wander, with ocean front views? Have a cool $2 million to spare? Well, if you answered in the affirmative to both those questions, then Rob Arkley has the property for you. The Arkley-owned Sequoia Investments X recently put a more than 200-acre swath of property […]
Posted inNews
God’s Country
THIS IS MY HUMBOLDT from Ryan Johnson on Vimeo. Humboldt County’s a beautiful place. This isn’t news. But if you could distill days’ full of beauty from scenic vistas throughout the county into a four-and-a-half-minute experience, there would be a novelty factor, right? Well, that’s what local photographer/handyman Ryan Johnson has done. Johnson, who has […]
Posted inNews
Still Itching to Clean Some Place Up?
Maybe you didn’t get your fill of trash at this past Saturday’s coastal cleanup. Or maybe you missed out — sad! Never despair, because here is yet another opportunity to be part of the September Good Crew: Volunteer to help clean up Horse Mountain Botanical Area on the Six Rivers National Forest. It’s for National […]
Posted inNews
Gettin’ All the Trash Out
September is when our good citizens’ tidy-cat impulses really kick in and hundreds voluntarily patrol the shores of our rivers, bay, sloughs, marshes and ocean to clean up after those sloppy, ill-behaved “others.” You know, the ones who think it’s perfectly fine to drop their cigarette butts anywherever (if only we could divert street-drain flows […]
Posted inNews
Feds Act to Avoid Fish Kill
In response to the recent discovery of a deadly parasite infecting salmon in the Klamath River, the Bureau of Reclamation began today sending another round of emergency flows down the Trinity River with the hopes of staving off a massive fish kill. After initially refusing to release additional water from Lewiston Dam into the Trinity, […]