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Klamath River Ecosystem Booming One Year After Dam Removal
Despite the hopeful strides the river has taken in healing, scientists say federal funding cuts pose a setback to continued scientific monitoring At a virtual press conference in October, Klamath River scientists announced that a year after the last of the dams were removed, river health has begun to bounce back. With salmon swimming upstream,…
Senate Rejects Bid to End Barred Owl Management Strategy
The U.S. Senate blocked legislation aimed at ending the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s controversial plan to forestall the Northern Spotted Owls’ extinction by killing thousands of non-native owls in specified areas, including parts of the North Coast. The Joint Resolution of Disapproval brought forward by Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy under the Congressional Review Act…
Hog of the Forsaken
Now that we have burst through the membrane of the macabre month of sweet decay and symbolic death, it’s time to settle into the darker reality of standard-time long nights and the spectacle of a (sort of) election in a country that is fairly anti-democratic. It’s all well and good in my household — I…
‘Don’t Wait to Be Asked’
Feeding folks amid loss of SNAP benefits Avi Leibson estimates the cost of the ingredients for the big pot of chicken soup he made in his Falafel Love kitchen, aside from the few unsold roasted chicken quarters from the day’s special, at around $10. He added potatoes, sweet potatoes, croutons made from the day’s leftover…
Angie Tustison:Award-Winning Quilterof Humboldt Scenes
“Quilting is a very forgiving medium,” says Humboldt fiber artist Angie Tustison. “When I was starting out, my designs didn’t have to be perfect to look nice, whereas the mistakes I made in my drawings or paintings tended to stand out.” She also loved the colors and textures of the range of fabrics available to…
Monstrous Creations Frankenstein and Bugonia
FRANKENSTEIN. Were anyone to ask (why would they?), I would have said, even minutes ago, that I first read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus when I was far too young to appreciate its form and content. My bookshelf has made a liar of me, though, yet again: The copy found there is a…
How Rescinding the Public Lands Rule Harms Humboldt County
Little more than a year after celebrating a major step forward for the conservation of our public lands, we’re now faced with its likely repeal. On Sept. 11, the administration began the process of repealing the Public Lands Rule, a science-based, bipartisan and publicly popular policy designed to safeguard the health and the public’s access…
The Magic of Photosynthesis
“How does grass make sheep?” We were walking across a field in Northern England recently, and the child-like question popped up, unbidden and unexpected, like similar ones sometimes do: “How do raindrops know to fall straight down and redwoods to grow straight up?” “How does my brain make sense of tiny squiggles on a sheet…
