The two-week countdown is on until the much-anticipated opening of the Redwood Sky Walk at the Sequoia Park Zoo. Starting May 14, zoo visitors can access the 100-foot-high suspended pathways through the trees, which is the longest in the western United States, according to the zoo, at just under a fourth of a mile to […]
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Damp Weather Slows Fires with Drier, Windier Weekend Forecast
Red Salmon Complex The fire complex burning about 8 miles northeast of Willow Creek has grown to 108,244 acres and is 31 percent contained. Light rainfall and moist conditions slowed fire growth, but have also limited fire crews’ ability to conduct firing and burning activities to further contain the blaze. “Fire activity was somewhat repressed […]
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North Coast Night Lights: A Handful of Night Light
I was in a situation not long ago with a handful of nights with which I knew not what to do. How many nights are there in a handful? You might wonder, though I never had, but it turns out that it depends on how big they are. The nights, not the hands … well, […]
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North Coast Night Lights: Guardian Giants on the Avenue
The full moon rose over the redwood forests of the Eel River valley, bathing the hillsides in its stark light. It flashed through the redwood tree branches beside me as I drove along the Avenue of the Giants, snaking along the river in and out of great stands of the giant trees. It was after […]
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New Yorker Looks at Yurok Tribe’s Carbon-Offset Project
A story on the New Yorker website this week takes a look at the Yurok Tribe’s carbon-offset forest project, which was the first developed under California protocols for the state’s cap-and-trade system back in 2014. According to the story, the project is now the “tribe’s main source of discretionary income,” which has facilitated the purchase […]
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McKay Tract Community Forest: Five Thumbs Up
The state’s first county-owned community forest is nearly a reality, after the board of supervisors voted unanimously to accept grant funding to purchase a 1,000-acre portion of the McKay Tract on Tuesday. There’s much to do before the land is accessible to the public, though. “The immediate next steps are processing the property transaction and […]
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Yurok Tribe Tosses Cap in Trade Ring
The Yurok Tribe has entered the carbon trade market, joining with sustainable forestry investment group New Forests Inc. to sell carbon credits based on a 7,660-acre patch of Doug fir and mixed hardwood forest the tribe’s promised to manage for increased carbon sequestration. The tribe will be issued 704,520 credits, according to a news release […]
