Headwaters Forest at 10
In 1999, the public bought an irreplaceable treasure. And some problems. And some things we still don’t understand.
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Headwaters Forest at 10
Ten years ago, on March 1, 1999, the federal government and the state of California agreed to pay Charles Hurwitz of Maxxam Corp. $380 million for an imperfect and yet miraculous 7,472 acres of Pacific Lumber Co. land east of Humboldt Bay between Fortuna and Eureka. And all this coming summer, the Bureau of Land…
1-800-GOOG-411: Find and connect with local businesses for free from your phone.
1-800-GOOG-411: Find and connect with local businesses for free from your phone.: Google does it again… They will rule the world one day. (That’s a scary
Journal Twitter Feed
Journal Twitter Feed: The Journal’s Twitter feed is live, baby! Come on over, chat us up, issue unrealistic demands … whatever you like! Now — let’s see if this post turns up in the Twitter feed! Minds, prepare to be
Safe Harbor For Owls and Timber
driving. It’s hooting season on the Van Eck Forest, notes a March 1 post on the Pacific Forest Trust’s blog. But — the gist of the post — if the biologist doing the hooting discovers any new spotted owls, the PFT, which manages the privately owned Van Eck under a working forest conservation easement, won’t…
DMV revises guidelines on medical marijuana
AndersonDMV revises guidelines on medical marijuana: “Drivers will no longer have their licenses suspended or revoked simply because of their status as medical marijuana patients,” says Joe Elford, attorney for Americans for Safe Access. The overall message: it’s OK to be a 215 driver as long as you don’t get zoned before or during
Community Park wars begin in earnest – Redwood Times
link.Community Park wars begin in earnest – Redwood Times: A detailed report on the Southern Humboldt Community Park controversy by Mary
Papervision3D | Panorama
thought.Papervision3D | Panorama: Take a break and pay a pano visit to a golden library somewhere, not sure where. Thanks to Rebecca for the
Diebold Election Audit Logs Defective
Diebold Election Audit Logs Defective: Slashdotted! Mitch Trachtenberg of the Humboldt Transparency Project wrote us (and Slashdot) about the California Secretary of State’s final report on the “Deck Zero” Diebold problem uncovered in the last Humboldt County election. The problems, it seems, are even worse than we
Coroner Still Independent (For Now)
With Supervisor Jill Duffy absent, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors moments ago deadlocked over the question of whether to merge the coroner’s office with the sheriff’s office. Supervisor Bonnie Neely and Clif Clendenen supported the motion; Supervisors Jimmy Smith and Mark Lovelace opposed it. The item will return to the board at a later…
Lawmakers vote to support gay marriage – Sacramento News – Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee
Lawmakers vote to support gay marriage – Sacramento News – Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee: It may prove to be nothing more than an empty gesture, but three days before the issue goes before the state supreme court, California lawmakers resolved that Prop 8 was bogus. Improper. A violation of the separation…
Some Old-Time Hate Speech
(Bakersfield). OK, so members of the New 49’ers, a recreational mining club based in Happy Camp, want to suction dredge for shiny gold nibblets in the Klamath River. And the Karuk Tribe — which has made its home along the river for thousands of years — wants there to be more checks on the miners’…
Missing Plane
introduction.Missing Plane: The Coast Guard is looking for an airplane that was supposed to show up at Eureka-Arcata Airport last night. Its radar went dead over the ocean, just outside Arcata, reports Fox News 40
NASA Scientist Maurice M. ‘Mel’ Averner, 72, Dies
NASA Scientist Maurice M. ‘Mel’ Averner, 72, Dies: The WaPo eulogizes a Fieldbrook resident who died last month. Our neighbor, it seems, authored an early and influential scientific paper on the possibility of colonizing other planets. It’s maddening how often this happens — quiet genius retires to Humboldt County, then passes away without a proper
Exporting American Assholery
A trainer wins the hearts and minds of the Iraqi police: … via Silverstein .
The Music Man
Squeezed between a barred-up Two Street Music and the typically dodgy Eureka Rescue Mission, stepping into the bustling and well-lit space of the Livella Studios grand opening party Friday night was a great relief. Dark and drizzling outside, the antechamber provided a burst of warmth and light, a collection of large, glossy paintings hanging from…
A Coot in Love
Note: My Supporting Actress pick didn’t pan out, so congratulations to Ryan Burns who bested me in our Oscar picks, which appeared last week in this column. Fortunately, my separate, friendly Oscar contest was more successful. Previews It didn’t win the Foreign Language Oscar, but happily local viewers will get to see Waltz with Bashir…
Confessions of a Renegade Recycler
Due mainly to the diligence of my wife, we recycle virtually every molecule of paper, glass, plastic and metal that passes through our house. Whereas I might be tempted to just toss into the trash that scrap of aluminum foil encrusted with tuna fish salad, my wife will duly wash it and consign it to…
Creamgate
"What do we got?" said Len Mayer, interim CEO of the Humboldt Creamery on Monday. "We have a 22-year-employee, the CEO, resigning immediately. We can’t get hold of him, we can’t contact him. And he says there’s something wrong with the finances." The last few days have been busy ones for Mayer and for the…
Something Old, Something New
It’s a brides’ thing: For good luck they’re supposed to wear something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. I’m not sure where it comes from, nor exactly why the phrase popped into my head. I don’t know anyone with pending nuptials; maybe it was going to see Rachael Getting Married (highly recommended, BTW) or…
Interference
Editor: We were interested in the casual response regarding the use of a less than adequate generator to power an antenna for the KZCC 95.5 FM radio station broadcasting from Trinidad ("Dance of the Dial," Feb. 19). The antenna is actually located on Green Diamond Resource company property adjacent to the north east corner of…
Please Help
Editor: First, a hearty thank you to Barbra Groom for being willing to recount her knowledge of the events surrounding Andrew Pease’s death ("Witness Recounts Stabbing," Feb. 19). I believe that information helps a struggling community to understand and to decide upon a correct course of action, whatever that may be. Thank you, Ryan Burns,…
A Suggestion of Narrative
There was an eerie hush as crowds of people filed quietly past Karen Sullivan’s drawings and paintings during Arts Alive! at First Street Gallery. Three good sized spaces offered pen and ink drawings, gouache paintings, 3×5-inch drawings enclosed helter-skelter in a glass case center stage with their digital counterparts across the way and an installation…
Keep It Hid
Former Replacements frontman, vocalist and songwriter Paul Westerberg has recounted how he would constantly try to record songs on his own in hopes to record a solo record. Those hopes were usually dashed by curious band members asking Westerberg what he was up to. Eventually the song would become a Replacements song. But if you’re…
Happy Family
Happy Family is a novel whose ironic title refers to a Manhattan family that is far from happy. We see this family through the eyes of an immigrant named Hua from Fu Zhou, China. Author Wendy Lee is Chinese-American, and it is as if she took her own disparate experiences (teaching English in China and…
The Six Things a River Might Say, If It Were to Speak
I) There is no such thing as a…
‘A wonderful bird is the pelican … ‘
Humboldt’s wintry cold and rain will, I promise, give way to warm and dry weather … and eventually to long summer evenings. That’s when you’ll probably find me, around sunset, sitting in my kayak at the south end of Indian Island, cradling a glass of Shiraz and watching one flight after another of pelicans whooshing…
Puppets in Hell
The Independent Eye’s Mythic Kitchen troupe, based in Sebastopol, returned to the North Coast last weekend for two shows at the Arcata Playhouse. With this version of their Rash Acts, they were trying something new, more or less. They’ve used puppets before — co-founder Elizabeth Fuller, who brought her show Dream House to the Playhouse…
