Great. First we start shipping whole logs to China; now we’re exporting entire trees. Actually, we doubt too many people will object to the massive tree giveaway being organized by Lowe’s Home Improvement Centers across the country, featuring live seedlings that even now are being sorted, packaged and shipped from the relatively tiny Jonsteen Company in […]
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Yurok Tribe Doubles Land Base
The Yurok Tribe’s land base, long confined to a narrow strip to either side of the lower Klamath River, will more than double in size now with a just-completed acquisition of 22,237 acres from Green Diamond Resource Company. The tribe announced the acquisition in a news release this afternoon, noting that it will allow for […]
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Richardson Grove Protesters Rally at Eureka CalTrans Office
More than 100 protesters gathered this afternoon outside the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) District 1 office in Eureka to voice their opposition to the Richardson Grove Improvement Project. The project, which has already received environmental approvals, would remove several trees along Hwy. 101 through Richardson Grove State Park to facilitate a road realignment. The […]
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Garbage, From One Humboldt to Another
Recology, the San Francisco-based parent company of Recology Humboldt County (nee City Garbage Company of Eureka), is facing growing resistance to plans for a massive dump in the middle of the Nevada desert. The proposed Jungo Landfill, which would receive as much as 4,000 tons of garbage daily, is slated to be located in the Black […]
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Naval Gazing, Redux
When the Journal first reported on the U.S. Navy’s plans to increase training in the Northwest Training Range Complex in January, 2009, reaction was slight. Since then, environmental groups and city councils have joined what the SF Chron calls “a growing chorus” of governmental bodies and citizens resistant to what they see as a lack […]
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HSU Student Helping With BP Disaster Cleanup
The Huffington Post has this story about “bird triage units” on the Louisiana coastline, where volunteers, including 20-year-old Humboldt State University student Stephany Helbig (pictured at right), are rescuing, washing and exporting birds who’ve been drenched in oil after British Petrolium’s Deepwater Horizon disaster. Downsides to the work? Hot, humid, 12-hour workdays clad in a […]
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Hark, Another Pulp Mill Lawsuit
Just as Bob Simpson and his Freshwater Pulp partners have crept a bit closer to their pulp mill-revival dream, here comes a new whuppin’, of sorts, from CATs — the Eureka-based org helmed by toxics warrior Patty Clary — and company. OK, it’s delivered to the EPA. And it’s regarding all kraft pulp mills. From […]
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Scenes From Tribes’ MLPA Protest
Big rigs, many of them empty log trucks, blared support as they passed the 25 or so protesters, most from local tribes, gathered on both sides of Highway 101 Tuesday afternoon in front of the Red Lion Hotel in Eureka. Inside the Red Lion, the California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative Master Plan Science Advisory […]
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Fiorina Courts Arcata Conservatives
U.S. Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina held a town hall meeting this afternoon inside a cavernous warehouse at Arcata’s O & M Industries. Addressing the crowd of 50 or so locals — which included Eureka Mayor/County Supervisor candidate Virginia Bass, County Planning Commissioner Dennis Mayo and County Supervisor candidate Ryan Sundberg (who said he’d just learned who Fiorina […]
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That Was Copenhagen
Throughout most of December, the Journal carried weekly reports from the COP15 Climate Change summit in Copenhagen. (See here and here and here.) These had been sent to us by local residents David Simpson, Jane Lapiner and Dan Ihara, each of whom had dealt with the topic of global climate change in their work — […]
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MLPA Task Force Named
problem. Former Assembly member Virginia Strom-Martin and current Humboldt County Supervisor Jimmy Smith are among the appointees to the Blue Ribbon Task Force that will oversee local implementation of the controversial Marine Life Protection Act, according to an MLPA press release. (Click here for background info.) Local fishermen have expressed concerns that Marine Protection Areas […]