Fish In The City
After years in the woods, Fish and Game has come to town with a mission to change urban planning
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Fish In The City
On a half-overcast day in early spring, environmental scientists Scott Bauer and Gordon Leppig get into a big, white, double-cab pickup with the California Department of Fish and Game logo on its door. Bauer starts the engine and steers the truck out of the parking lot of the DFG’s Eureka offices in Old Town, and…
My Left Slipper
If you didn’t know already, next Wednesday, April 9, Soroptomist International will be holding a fundraiser, “Take a Walk in Her Shoes,” to give prominent male members of the community an inkling of what it’s like to be a woman — or at least to know what it feels like to wear high heels. (For…
Siskiyou Sups Vote No on Dam Removal
In a meeting last night, Siskiyou County supervisors voted unanimously to oppose the removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River — three of those dams are in Siskiyou County proper. The board also opposes the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement. County representatives have been present at the settlement talks over the past two years…
Poetry Reading at HSU
On Thursday, April 3, at 3 p.m. there will be a “multi-cultural” poetry reading at the HSU library on the second floor in the “Fishbowl Room”. Poets who will be reading include Mary Hope Whitehead Lee, Daryl Chinn, Marlon Sherman, Dick Stull, Barbara Curiel, Jerry Martien and Mark Shikuma. Enjoy!
Bigfoot’s Boring
You remember Tom Biscardi, the guy who scrapped, most unfortunately, with Coast to Coast AM’s George Noory in the fall of 2005 after claiming he had a Bigfoot in captivity in Stagecoach, Nev.? (You can read the synopsis of all that fun nonsense here .) Well, the man’s temporarily gone off Bigfoot — such a…
Yreka, Why Now?
Tomorrow Siskiyou County supervisors will vote on a resolution to oppose the removal of hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River. The county may also decide to opt out of the Klamath settlement agreement altogether. Representatives from Siskiyou County have been involved in the talks over the past two years — although, at first they weren’t…
Mo Spankers
This week’s Hum began with an interview with Christina Marrs of Austin’s Asylum Street Spankers , who are just about to hit Humboldt County for a Monday, April 1 ( April Fool’s Day ) gig at Humboldt Brews brought to you by the good folks at Inferknow . Our conversation went on a bit longer…
Martin Cotton Redux
Between 5:15 p.m. and 7:02 p.m. on August 9, 2007, Martin Cotton’s final hours were recorded unpoetically in the Humboldt County Correctional Facilities observation log: 1715 hours ———– Admitted – Extremely combative 1738 hours ———- Moving – OK 1752 hours ———- Talking / Moving OK 1755 hours ———- Moving 1807 hours ——— Breathing / Moved…
Global warming? Whatever.
OK, first of all, the results of a new public opinion poll on global warming attitudes, reported on here, would seem to imply that nobody’s phone in worried-central Humboldt County rang during the pollsters’ phone survey. The survey found that the more people learn about global warming, the more apt they are to slip into…
Remembering Three Mile Island and the New Nuclear Renaissance
Apropos of last week’s cover story in the Journal , “The Not-So-Peaceful Atom,” today’s Morning Edition on NPR features two stories on the nuclear industry: One is about Three Mile Island’s efforts to extend their license, which looks like it’s going to happen, and the other is about the nuclear renaissance underway in the United…
The $85 Question
We got quite a few responses to our "Palco Bankruptcy Contest," in which readers were invited to lobby us and try to influence our vote in the Pacific Lumber bankruptcy case. If you recall, the North Coast Journal is a participant in the case; subsidiary Britt Lumber of Arcata — since shuttered — owed us…
Band’s Visit: A Small Gem
Opening 21.Group of brilliant students and unorthodox math prof take on big casinos and win their way into racy Vegas lifestyles. Rated PG-13. At Mill Creek and the Broadway. MARRIED LIFE.Characters fumble towards their passions leading to a complicated web of deceit, murder plans, love and lies. Rated PG-13. At the Minor. SAMSON AND DELILAH.San…
Pan Bagna
It wasn’t what you typically expect at a birthday party for a 5-year-old. Sure there were hot dogs on the grill for the kids, but there was also an absolutely scrumptious spread of food aimed at the parents in attendance. Among the morsels prepared in advance by Diane, a marvelous cook (and the mother of…
Crazy Fools
The Asylum Street Spankers’ van was in Arizona heading west when I rang Christina Marrs, the band’s saw player (and vocalist, tenor guitarist, banjo and uke player) on her cell. We started off talking about Asylum Street, a thoroughfare in the Spankers’ hometown Austin, Texas. "It’s the street that goes by the asylum," said Christina.…
Who Killed Martin Cotton?
More than six months after the death of Martin Frederick Cotton II, it’s still hard to say for sure what exactly killed the 26-year-old. At one point it was believed that he might have died of a rare overdose of LSD. Or that he killed himself by banging his head against a jail cell floor.…
On Loan
Every kayaker needs a hometown run. That go-to river that you skate out of work a bit earlier than usual to paddle before it gets dark; a creek you can count on for fun when the rain starts to fall. Willow Creek is a standby run for North Coast kayakers, close enough to paddle a…
Winter comes to an end
The hot sun rays Reminding us of peaches,…
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
DVD, directed by Taggart Siegel Good Times Video John Peterson was a toddler in the 1950s when his mother bought a movie camera. And while she succeeded in documenting the comings and goings on their beloved Illinois farm, she may not have realized that she was also kicking off a five-decade-long project that culminated in…
Sea Lion
CD by The Ruby Suns Sub Pop FellowJournal reviewer Spencer Doran remarked on the "Beach Boys-in-an-airplane-hangar vocals" and sampler loops on Noah "Panda Bear" Lennox’s 2007 album, Person Pitch. Sea Lion, the new release from the Ruby Suns, an ever-changing New Zealand group fronted by multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Ryan McPhun, could be an extension of that…
Vs. (Definitive Edition)
CD by Mission of Burma Matador "We hope you remember us as basically a wimpy band with nothing to say," Mission of Burma guitarist Roger Miller disclaims moments before the band bashes their way through the closing number of their last hometown show, included as a bonus DVD to this deluxe reissue of their lone…
Hunting Worms
I recently went big-game hunting in the bay for a jawed and venomous predator reputed to be two meters long. I found, instead, this interesting spaghetti-sprouting Polychaete worm named Cirriformis, just 10 cm long, lurking in smelly sulfidic mud. This species eats black mud from which it extracts organic material. According to Kelly Dorgan of…
