California Native Plant Society July 2023
Field Trips
July 9, Sunday. Brown Creek-West Ridge Day Hike. This loop route in Prairie Creek State Park goes up from Newton B. Drury Parkway to Rhododendron Trail, then back down, through stately forest, several...
Sick Rivers
Art by Terry Torgenson
As many of our readers know, we have reported on the state of our rivers many times over the years. Here are a few of our latest articles and EcoNews Report...
Solutions Summit | June 2023
Michael D. Pulliam
SEAWEED CLING WRAP
A team at University of Leeds in the U.K. has turned an invasive species of seaweed into a compostable alternative to plastic cling wrap. The product can withstand heat and...
Get on Board: Must We Electrify Our Homes?
Martha Walden
Our house in Westhaven last winter experienced four power outages that lasted from ten hours to forty hours. That’s the price of living with trees when the wind blows hard, and your local...
Bike Justice Humboldt: Come Ride With Us!
Caroline Griffith, NEC Executive Director
Transportation accounts for 53 percent of our emissions in Humboldt County, so there is an obvious need to shift to low- and no-emission ways to get where we need to...
Barriers Removed for Trinidad Rancheria to Gather and Access their Ancestral Lands
California State Parks and Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria Press Release
California State Parks and the Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria (Trinidad Rancheria) signed a historic 5-year memorandum of...
Farm Feature: Ts’ De Noni
Elena Bilheimer, EcoNews Journalist
Ts’ De Noni, which means “where the bears play” in the Bear River dialect, is a youth beekeeping program and garden located in Loleta. The program began in January of 2022...
AB99: Integrated Pest Management
Patty Clary, Californians for Alternatives to Toxics
A bill advancing through the California legislature on a tide that could carry it to the governor’s desk, AB99 would bring all of California the opportunity to enjoy...
Creature Feature: Superbloom from Dunes to Deserts
Sable Odry, Coastal Programs Coordinator
Thirteen years of living here and an environmental science degree from Cal Poly Humboldt has taught me to appreciate this amazing region. As I work through my California Natural History...
Community Coastal Column | June 2023
Sable Odry, NEC Coastal Programs Coordinator
Caroline Griffith, NEC Executive Director
Craft for the Coast Trash Art Contest
The NEC is hosting its Third Annual Craft for the Coast Trash Art Contest. This is an exciting event...
Why We Shouldn’t Be Worried About Traffic
Colin Fiske, Executive Director
Nobody likes sitting in traffic. Consequently, “congestion relief” is one of the most popular things a planner or politician can propose. After all, when you’re stuck in gridlock on a freeway,...
California Native Plant Society | June 2023
Field Trips
June 23-25. Oregon Caves Overnight and Day Hikes. Oregon Caves National Monument near Cave Junction offers botanical fun on mountain trails, as well as the cave itself. We will camp at Chinquapin Group...
How Legal Advocacy Cleaned Up Our Air & Water, and Bold Government Action Averted...
Jen Kalt, Humboldt Baykeeper Director
The American Lung Association recently ranked Humboldt County’s air quality as among the cleanest in the state. But that wasn’t always so. For decades, two pulp mills just across Humboldt...
CDFW and CAL FIRE Urge Obstruction of Public Records Act: “Don’t Create Documents”
Tom Wheeler, EPIC Executive Director
Note: For the past year, EPIC has filed and reviewed numerous Public Records Act requests with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and CAL FIRE to understand recurring...
The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the CA Redwoods
Jen Card, Eureka Books
On June 6, 2023 PublicAffairs Books, an imprint of New York publishing giant Hachette, will publish The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods, by Humboldt County...
350 Humboldt Climate Book Club: Read With Us!
Dan Chandler, 350 Humboldt
350 Humboldt Book Club Picks
The 350 Humboldt Book Club has been reading one climate-related book a month for almost three years now: the perfect activity for the Covid years! We’ve read...
Environmental Activism Across the World
Elena Bilheimer, EcoNews Journalist
Greta Thunberg recently made the news again for standing in solidarity with the Saami, the Indigenous Peoples of Norway, against government plans to colonize their traditional grazing areas under the premise...
Environmental Justice in Humboldt County
Catriona Barr, Claire Anderson, Tina Orton-Owens, and Winston Grady (Cal Poly Humboldt)
BACKGROUND
The Northcoast Environmental Center (NEC) is at a turning point. Founded and subsequently focused on conservation issues for more than fifty years, it...
Stop the Sweeps
Northcoast Environmental Center Staff
More and more we get word of areas around the community that are being “swept” of unhoused people. This is not a phenomenon that is specific to Humboldt; all around the...
Native Coastal Dune Restoration
Mike Cipra, Friends of the Dunes
Editor's Note: Here on the north coast we are lucky to have a gem of an ecosystem a short drive (or bike ride, or slightly longer walk) away. Along...
Dear EcoNews: Cat Conscious
Dear EcoNews,
I have always been an animal lover and have been recently thinking about adopting an outdoor/indoor cat. I am really excited about the prospect, but am concerned about the impact it will have...
Celebrate Summer Solstice
Excerpt from Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change (Simon Element) by Day Schildkret. Reprinted with permission.
Summer Solstice
Overhead, the sun seems to linger at its zenith forever and ever. On...
News From the Center | June 2023
Larry Glass, NEC Board President
Caroline Griffith, NEC Executive Director
Sea Level Rise and Wastewater Treatment
The rush to develop more housing in Arcata and the surrounding communities is heating up. Although much of this is due...