Yes, those are zebras browsing in a field along Mattole Road. Josie Brown, a Petrolia resident, says they’re owned by fashion designers based in the Los Angeles area. The zebras are cared for by a father and son team, Luis Juarez Senior and Junior, who make the drive from Ferndale several days a week to […]
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Marsh Seal
This seal pup was spotted at the end of the pier at the Arcata Marsh on Sunday, and was reported to folks who monitor stranded wildlife. Marsh visitors were being advised to leave the animal alone and not harass it or try to “rescue” it.
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KIEM Camera Recovered Near Site of Amazing Google Street View Images
So, one of the cameras from last weekend’s “News Channel 3” theft was recovered earlier today, along with some cables belonging to the station. (See the press release below.) But more importantly (by which we mean way less importantly), the camera was recovered less than a block from what may be the greatest 360-degree panorama of Eureka […]
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A Song for Bill
Every once in a while someone reads a story in the Journal and is inspired. We like it when that happens. An example is this song by former Humboldter Melody Walker, an “Americali” singer/songwriter who now lives in Richmond. (Walker was among those profiled in Herb Childress‘ cover story from 2011, “Leaving.”) She explained, “My […]
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Details Emerge About Gruesome Shark Attack [Victorious Shark-Punch Update]
UPDATE #3: The surfer has been identified as Scott Stephens, a 25-year-old from Manila. Rumors of his death and errant intestines appear to have been exaggerated. He’s looking good today and apparently feeling well enough to give KIEM an interview. Stephens reportedly told reporter Kelly May that in order to escape the shark, which researchers believe […]
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The New Woven Roots Video For “Chicken Coop” Features a Girl in a Chicken Coop
Check it out, mon! The new video from Arcata reggae bros Woven Roots is all about representin’ da Humboldt values: sustainable agriculture, a locavore diet and respect for women. Respek! How do we know they respek da ladies? Because the video says so in a warning right up front. It says “No Women … were […]
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News from Elsewhere – about us
In case you missed them, a couple of California’s major dailies ran Humboldt-centric stories this week. A travel piece in the Sacramento Bee titled “Arcata both embraces and rises above its cliches” offers a tourist-eye view of Arcata describing it as “a little bit of everything: a college town, a neo-hippie enclave, a haven for environmentalists […]
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A Fair Day
The young man watched the horses parade around the corral near the race track just before one of last Saturday’s races. His gaze lingering on Western Roses (No. 3), a curious, rolly-eyed steed with tongue perpetually stuck far out and to the right like a manic comic pushing to squeeze every last laugh out of […]
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Scat Dogs Spot Owls
No, they’re not canine masters of jazzy nonsense, crooning in the moonlight. They’re the University of Washington’s Center for Conservation Biology detection dogs Shrek and Max, who’ve been trained to sniff out northern spotted owl pellets (the undigested stuff they hack up after a meal) at the bases of trees (and thusly find the owls). […]
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Sorry, Wee Marty
Wildlife biologist Ric Schlexer, with the U.S. Forest Service office in Arcata, called today to correct an outlandish mistake we propagated in a previous post about the wee Humboldt marten. In the post, “Bite You in the Face” — about the Center for Biological Diversity’s Endangered Species Act-related lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife […]
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Bite You In The Face
That’s what the Humboldt marten does to the porcupine, supposedly. And it’s what the Center for Biological Diversity does, too, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fails to do what the Center wants — in this case, protect the minksy little triangle-eared critter, of which there are apparently only 20 left in California and […]
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Marine Protected Areas Adopted
Do rockfish breathe sighs of relief? No? How about shorebirds? Or sea lions? Perhaps razor clams? (How do those things even breathe?) Okay, well, whether or not they know it, marine life on the North Coast will now enjoy protection in a new network of underwater parks. Yesterday, in a conference room at the Eureka Red […]