With the countdown on to the first California condors making their way back to the wilds of Humboldt County in a century, a group of the endangered birds — a gathering known as a “condo” or a “scarcity” — has taken a liking to one woman’s deck, roof and yard, apparently creating quite the scene. […]
Redwood National Park
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Happy Birthday, Redwood National Park
The large former redwood mill site north of Orick was transformed Sunday into party central for Stand for the Redwoods, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Redwoods National Park and 100 years of redwoods conservation and restoration. The Orick mill site, once filled with huge old-growth redwood logs, was purchased in 2013 by Save […]
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Redwood National Park Joins Twitter Rebellion
One day after Tweets with references to climate change were deleted from the Badlands National Park account, the Associated Press reports national parks across the country are sending out messages of their own. Because that’s where we are now. Humboldt County’s own Redwood National Park appears to have joined the growing rebellion against Trump administration […]
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Redwood Borough
A tiny Humboldt County-inspired redwood forest is taking root in downtown Brooklyn as part of a public art project set to open on Oct. 1. Spencer Finch’s Lost Man Creek exhibit — which replicates a 790-acre section of the Redwood National Park on a 1:100 scale with some 4,000 dawn redwood seedlings being planted by volunteers. “Lost […]
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A Celebration of Life for Lucille Vinyard
The “Mother of Redwood National Park,” a woman who once gave a funny, irreverent interview to the Journal about activism, widowhood and Ronald Reagan’s predilection for makeup, Lucille Vinyard, is being honored at Humboldt State University on Sunday, May 22. Vinyard, who passed away in December, a day after her friend and fellow activist, Susie […]
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The Van Kirk and Vinyard Research Collection: HSU Honors Humble Heroines
Susie Van Kirk would probably not have approved of Humboldt State University’s plan to immortalize her. The decades-long activist for homeless and environmental rights was not a fan of the spotlight, according to all who knew her, going as far as to ask her son not to hold a memorial service or write an obituary […]
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Death on Newton B. Drury Parkway Brings Humboldt 2015 Road Deaths to 25
The death of a Klamath man at noon yesterday brings the grim total of road deaths in the county up to 25 for 2015. The driver, an 89-year-old man who has yet to be identified, was traveling northbound along the Newton B. Drury Parkway when he left the road and collided with a tree. The […]
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Don Clausen Dies
Ferndale native and former North Coast Congressman Don Clausen has died. He was 91. Clausen, a World War II veteran and a Republican who served from 1963 to 1982 in the U.S. House of Representatives, was described in a 2013 Santa Rosa Press Democrat story celebrating his 90th birthday as an ambidextrous baseball player (he […]
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Curtains for the Redwoods
Yep, they’ve shut ’em down, our lovely, looming patches of redwoods within the federal government’s jurisdiction — for who knows how long. Redwood National Park is one of the 401 national parks that closed today, along with numerous other federal outfits, as the federal government powered down after Republicans and Democrats failed to agree on […]
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Elk in the Surf
One morning this past July, Louisa and I were sipping coffee in our camper van. We were parked on the remote Usal Beach in the Sinkyone Wilderness when they emerged from the early morning fog like ghostly apparitions — a stately parade of five bull elk on their way to the beach for a morning […]
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Bright Bird
If you happened to be hanging around the game pen up at Humboldt State University a couple autumns ago, you might have chanced upon a miserable huddle of characters puking their brains out like over-partied freshman. These guys were small and bright blue with pointy, soot-colored heads. And they’d just had some baaaad eggs. The […]