Happy Earth Day, HumCo! If you’re just bumming around your domicile on this fine Sunday morning like I am, you might as well enhance it by throwing on the most pukingly, snuggly screen saver in the cosmos: Baby Panda Cam! That’s right! To commemorate Earth Day, the Annenberg Foundation has launched a live HD video […]
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New Sequoia Park Zoo friend!
Meet the Sequoia Park Zoo‘s newest kid magnet Dorsie the porcupine! I know what you cynics are thinking: “Ho hum, I swerve to miss hitting those things with my car all the time. Get me a freakin’ rhino already!” But this is when Dorsie’s inspiring personal story sucker punches you in the cute receptor. You […]
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The Face of Deterrence
Update Friday Dec. 2: The dogs are now out, picked up by a friend of their owner. …. Nov. 30: Two black dogs are back in a cage at the county animal shelter today, and the homeless guy who cares for them is in county jail, at a cost of roughly $84 a night. He’s […]
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Murre Hard Times
Common murre, Trinidad State Beach Photo by Ken Malcomson Oh, cruel, hard Nature, won’t you let me wander your beaches without encountering so many of your soft little reminders of Death? Of All Things Must Go? Seriously: Seventeen sleek little feet-up feather bundles laid amidst piles of drying eel grass is quite enough. Their poor […]
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Whale, CSI
It probably will be at least two months before marine mammal specialists get enough lab results to make an educated guess about what killed the whale that circled for so many weeks in the Klamath River. One set of tests will look for toxins produced by freshwater algae. Another batch will assess blubber for contaminants […]
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Mama Whale Passes
Sad news — especially for those who seized the opportunity to be mesmerized by cetacean sublimeness in the past couple of months. The mama gray whale who had been living in the Klamath River since June 24 — and who’d been alone since her calf swam back out to sea July 22 — has died. […]
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Meat, Eureka!
Here at the Journal, we get oodles of announcements from various peeps about store openings, ribbon cuttings, and ground breakings. Hum ho. But this one caught our eyes and moistened our food holes. After months of rumors, the highlight of Hwy. 36 is finally sticking its barbecue sauce stained shovel into Eurekan dirt. Sorry, PETA! […]
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Whale and Her Calf in the Klamath
The Inland Whale from Thomas B. Dunklin on Vimeo. A Gray Whale and her calf, in the lower Klamath River, roughtly 3 miles upstream of the mouth of the river. They have been in the river for over a week, and may stay much longer. In 1989, a mother and calf came in and spent […]
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Sure, Take Lassie To Work
Dogs are cute. Fluffy. Scruffy. Loyal. Irascible. Smart. Hard workers, sometimes. Slackers, usually. Heroes. Bums — good for stories! And, of course, Man’s best chums. Which is why most everyone in the whole snookered world will be tickled as fleas to learn that tomorrow, June 24, is Take Your Dog To Work Day. Except, uh, […]
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His Beak Can Hold More Than Your Kayak Can
Barry Evans, our master of Field Notes, sent us this note-and-photos e-mail package today. Speaks — er, beaks for itself: When our kayak group was paddling during the low tide in Trinidad Bay this morning (Sunday), we were graced by this brown pelican, which perched on Mark Sommer’s boat for about 15 minutes, showing no […]
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Rabies Update
As promised the county’s public health office released a follow-up press release today about the human rabies infection that was diagnosed last week, but there’s not much new information. Officials are still looking for the animal that caused the infection, and the patient’s condition has not changed substantially over the weekend, according to the release. (The victim is at […]
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Ode to a Beached Cow
Forlorn cow cast upon the rocks Dampness and death have polished your hide How did you get here, ‘neath the boardwalk? Did you never learn to watch for high tide? Pallid lips curl over square teeth An effortless grimace emitting no sound Cloven hooves point out toward the sea How long did they flounder there […]