As this three-day holiday won’t be like any other in recent memory, the county of Humboldt is reminding residents that COVID-19 precautions apply when they are out enjoying the region’s parks, beaches and trails. Those include social distancing practices, wearing facial coverings and refraining from gathering in groups. All parks and trails operated by Humboldt […]
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Prairie Creek Scenic Byway Will Close Nights to Prevent Burl Piracy
File under: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things. Newton B. Drury Parkway, that languorous, serpentine, redwood-lined scenic bypass through Prairie Creek State Park, will now be closed dusk ’til dawn because of burl-raiding nincompoops. California State Parks announced the closure — effective Saturday at sundown — as a measure to keep people from […]
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Go Grizz!
Whooooo-wheee! Grease up the Dutch oven, knock the mold off the tent, gather up the kids and haul your camping-starved selves over to Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park. It’s been closed since May 1 because of the state’s budget fiasco. It will reopen in time for this Memorial Day weekend. Moments ago, the Humboldt County […]
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Reggae on the River – Still at Benbow
There’s something about Reggae on the River that gets the rumor mill grinding. In the last month the Journal has heard from readers that the annual concert put on by the Mateel Community Center was “definitely moving to a new location,” away from Benbow, that everything was in place for relocating to Riverview Ranch, home […]
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Time to Sharpen Your eTrek Sticks
The Guv has proposed closing 70 state parks to ease the budget burden a bit, and several are in our area — including Fort Humboldt and Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park, through which the Van Duzen River flows. Some of these parks have been saved from closure by private and government entities; most have not. […]
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Peace Talks in Garberville
Back in July in sunkissed Garberville, residents/merchants and loafers/homeless engaged in a particularly wet battle in the war over Veterans’ Grove, a little park on the town’s north end where hordes of wanderers and folks down on their luck apparently have set up semi-permanent camp. According to reports on SoHum reporter Kym Kemp’s blog, “Redheaded […]
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California to Close 70 State Parks (Updated)
The Sacramento Bee reported earlier today that 70 state parks will be closed due to the state budget deficit, under plans announced by Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration. Governor Jerry Brown’s budget calls for $22 million in cuts to state park funding. The criteria for choosing which parks would be shuttered were based on attendance rates and […]
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4/20 in Arcata a Bit ‘Off’
Things were damp in Arcata’s Redwood Park on April 20, the unofficial holiday also known as 4/20. The park’s grassy meadow was surrounded by caution tape. Police on the scene said a crew had spread fertilizer earlier in the day and no one was allowed to cross the field. Arcata Police Chief Tom Chapman was […]
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Nadananda predicts vigilantes may battle cartel pot farms
Loggers.Nadananda predicts vigilantes may battle cartel pot farms: Interviewed by Bay Area news radio station KCBS, Friends of the Eel founder Nadananda warned that staffing cuts in state parks could lead to danger to the woods from Mexican drug cartels. The report concludes, “Nadananda says she thinks the situation may get so bad that vigilante […]