UPDATE 12/18: We updated our King Tide photos blog post with some non-King Tide comparative photos … like we should have done to begin with. Sigh. Live and learn. Thursday morning at 10:46 a.m., was when the North Coast was predicted to have its highest tide of 2012, i.e. THE KING TIDE. So the Journal […]
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The World’s Back
After a seven year absence, condo-cruise ship The World is back with us for the weekend. According to wikipedia, the 44,000-ton, 644-foot ship is owned by its 160 or so residents. The ship has 165 apartments, studio apartments and studios, including 88 “guest suites” rented out on short-term basis, as in a traditional cruise ship. Here’s […]
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Field Notes Takes the Plunge
Our intrepid Field Notes science writer Barry Evans took the “Perilous” Plunge on Saturday and survived to file this report: “Was it cold?” I’ve been asked, oh, about 20 times. Honestly, I’ve no idea — I was in and out, and what with all the music and general merriment at the F Street dock around […]
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Waves: Big
How big is a 20-foot swell? Taller than the average two-story house, over three times the size of the average man. Big enough to sweep you away forever if you should be so silly as to go near the ocean today. As of 6:53 a.m., the local swell was running 20 feet at 21 seconds […]
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Put The ‘Lake’ in Blue Lake
And now, according to a detailed press packet, the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District enters the third, and final, phase of the water resources planning process that it’s calling “Stay With the Flow,” but which is otherwise known, in the local parlance, as “Holy Crap, We Can’t Let the Waterbaggers Get Our Mad.” Just kidding […]
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Mad River Could Beer The Country!
Well, the pulp mill’s officially dead. Now the work begins in earnest to find another use for the raw — meaning untreated — surface water from the Mad River for which the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District has a state permit to deliver for industrial uses. We’re not talking about our drinking water folks — […]
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Hunter: ‘Time to do other things’
Dennis Hunter won’t be running for re-election to the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District, leaving his Eureka-based seat up for grabs in the Nov. 3 election. “I promised my constituents I would finish out the term,” Hunter told the Journal by phone Tuesday evening. “I think it’s time to do other things.” Former […]
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Killer algae on the Van Duzen
The Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services today issued the following warning: AGENCIES WARN AGAINST VAN DUZEN RIVER BLUE GREEN ALGAE FOLLOWING DOG DEATH Due to its potential health risks, the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Environmental Health and the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, are […]
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Cows For Fish
The Nature Conservancy has paid $14.2 million for 4,543 acres of the Shasta Big Springs Creek Ranch in Siskiyou County, Calif., where it plans to restore about 20 miles of stream. It has secured a conservation easement on the ranch’s remaining 407 acres, where the rancher will continue to live and work. The Shasta River […]
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Million Gallon Spill
Last Tuesday afternoon, Journal reader Rachael Brilbeck went for a stroll on the beach on the North Spit, right across from the Evergreen Pulp Mill, which is currently shuttered. Everything was normal when she set off on her walk, but when she returned an hour and a half later she saw something strange. At some […]