Welcome to our first Digital Edition of the EcoNews!
IN THIS ISSUE
From EcoNews Staff Journalist Aerin Monroe
Lindsay Creek Conservation Easement – A Marriage of Conservation and Sustainable Logging?
To end the year of 2025, Green Diamond Resource Company and Northcoast Regional Land Trust (NRLT) finalized the Lindsay Creek Conservation Easement (2,815 acres),...
CORE Hub: Community Benefit Agreements and Offshore Wind
For coastal California communities, our choices about offshore wind today will determine whether we generate local jobs, protect the environment, and shape a sustainable...
What's On Larry's Radar?
Larry Glass has been working with the NEC now for 50 years and is its longest serving board member. He has been an environmental activist since the first Earth Day. Larry is focused on forest and public lands defense. Larry is Currently the Public Lands Director for the Northcoast Environmental Center.
Toxic’s News
The US Forest Service is up to their new old tricks again this time in a document called the Klamath and Shasta-Trinity National Forests'...
Defending Roadless Areas
In response to Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Rollins flagrant pandering to corporate timber, mining, and drilling interests, by attempting to remove all protections from over...
MORE FROM THE NEC
From The Center – What’s been happening here? Growth, Change, and Community Rebuilding
By Laurel McKay
What’s been happening here? Growth, Change, and Community Rebuilding
I certainly didn't expect to end up back at the NEC, but when I...
Echoes in the Sierra: The Return of Wolves to the Golden State
Wolves Invade Los Angeles
By Scott Sway - Vice President, NEC Board of Directors
Not exactly an invasion - but for the first time in the...
BAMBOOZLED – How We Got Hooked on Disposable Plastic
By Maggie Gainer
Some EcoNews readers may remember when it all began.
In the 1940s, oil companies like DOW Chemical, DuPont, and Exxon discovered a product...
Creature Feature: Some Positives for the Humboldt Marten
The Coastal Marten, also known as the Humboldt Marten, a relative to minks and weasels and one of the cutest, rarest and elusive mammals....
Monthly Native Blooms: Trillium Ovatum
While you are out enjoying nature in our community forests, local, state and national parks, it is time to start looking for Trillium Ovatum....
FROM OUR MEMBER GROUPS
EPIC – Environmental Protection Information Center
EPIC Sponsors Legislation to Conserve State Demonstration Forest System
On Friday, February 20th, Assemblymember Chris Rogers introduced AB 2494, a bill that would provide a transformative update to the management of California’s State...
RRAS – Redwood Regional Audubon Society – The Sandpiper
Tales from a Real Cave Man: Join us Thursday, March 19, at 7:00 p.m....
Dick fell in love with caving right after high school and took regular excursions from Connecticut into the back hills of Virginia. After moving west...
RRAS FIELD TRIPS IN MARCH 2026
Every Saturday, 8:30-11am. Join RRAS at the Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary for a free guided field trip with an experienced birder. The meet-up...
President’s Column, by Kathryn West
By Kathryn West, President, RRAS
Welcome to the first exclusively digital issue of The Sandpiper. As many of you may know, The Sandpiper has experienced...
It’s that time again… say good-bye to the Aleutian Cackling Geese – “Sunrise at...
Our visitors from the north, the Aleutian Cackling Geese, will begin their long migration back to the Aleutians any time now. Humboldt Bay National...
Third Slough Enhancement Project (TSEP), Phase I
By Jim Clark, Co-Chair of the Conservation Committee
Third Slough, also known as Myrtletown Gulch, is the third tributary from the mouth of Freshwater Slough...
DID YOU KNOW? – Shelters on Notice
In good news for wild birds, a California court has ruled that a large, multi-shelter Humane Society violated state laws by abandoning adoptable cats...
A Statewide Breeding Bird Atlas(t)!
By Ken Burton
On January 1, California eBirders awoke to a brave new world: the start of the California Bird Atlas (CBA) Project. Chances are...
CNPS - California Native Plant Society - North Coast Chapter
CNPS – North Coast Chapter California Native Plant Society March 2026 Newsletter
Stay Updated: www.northcoastcnps.org facebook.com/NorthCoastCNPS
CNPS welcomes everyone. No expertise required.
Evening Program
Second Wednesdays at the D Street Neighborhood Center, 1301 D Street, Arcata or register on...
Sierra Club - Redwood Chapter North Group
And the award for the worst environmental president goes to… Trump
By Dana Utman - Chair, Sierra Club Redwood Chapter North Group
And the award for the worst environmental president goes to... Trump. He is bringing...
CRTP – Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities
The Petition for Safer 4th & 5th Streets
By Colin Fiske, Executive Director and President, CRTP
There is a traffic safety crisis on Highway 101 in Eureka, including Broadway, 4th Street, and 5th...
Thank you to Alan and Barbara Wilkinson!
A very special thank you to Alan and Barbara Wilkinson for helping us edit this issue of the EcoNews. They stepped up to help when asked and filled a void that we currently have.
Thank you Alan & Barbara, you always lend a hand when needed! And a huge thank you to volunteers Ileen and Cedar. Your help around the office has been invaluable. I would also like to extend my gratitude and thanks to all our donors who have stuck by us through times of uncertainty, we couldn’t do it without you! – Laurel McKay