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News from the Center
by Larry Glass and Carrie Tully
Here are some of the issues we've been talking about.
Pacific Northwest Heat Storm
We were a little unnerved, but not...
Let’s Talk About the Future
Northcoast Environmental Center staff
A half-century is a long time to do anything, but fifty years as a coalition of environmental groups is particularly impressive....
Letter to EcoNews: County and State Officials are Trading Our Fish and Owls for...
Local officials in county government and those in relevant state agencies are trading away our fish, owls, and other important elements of our natural...
Into the Wild
by Dan Sealy
As a young man moving to Arcata from Oklahoma in 1970 to attend HSU, I had little-to-zero experience with the typical outdoor...
Remembering Arcata Community Recycling Center’s Origin Story
by Maggie Gainer
Following Earth Day 1970, drop-off recycling programs run by volunteers sprung up in college towns all across the U.S. With the leadership...
Married to the Movement
by Chris Jenican Beresford
My involvement with the NEC is quite different from others in that I was married to Tim McKay from 1976 through...
Lucille and Dave Got in “Good and Necessary Trouble”
By Sue Leskiw
The late Congressman John Lewis described his involvement in the Civil Rights movement as getting in “good trouble, necessary trouble.” That phrase...
Women of the Early NEC
by John Amodio, former NEC Executive Director
The early 1970’s, when the NEC was founded, was a tumultuous time in America. “Liberation” was the common...
Persistence, Conviction and Citizen Science Lead to a Win for Spring Chinook
By Caroline Griffith
On Wednesday, June 16, the California Fish and Game Commission voted to list Klamath spring Chinook salmon as threatened under the California...
La persistencia, convicción y ciencia ciudadana logran una victoria para el Chinook de Primavera
Por Caroline Griffith
Traducción por Johanna Rivera
El miércoles 16 de junio, la Comisión de Pesca y Caza de California votó a favor de incluir el...
Does Forest Service have an Obligation to Clean Up Hazardous Waste?
New Lawsuit Launched Seeks to Compel Remediation of Public Land
EPIC—together with our allies at the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, Californians for Alternatives to Toxics, Northcoast...
Clam Beach Pollution Mystery Solved?
Jennifer Kalt, Director
Last month, Clam Beach landed on Heal the Bay's “Beach Bummer” list of California's most polluted beaches yet again, getting an 'F'...
War on Wild Horses on Northeast California’s Devil’s Garden Plateau
by Felice Pace, Redwood Chapter Grazing Chair
Over recent decades the number of reporters and editors delivering news to Americans has declined sharply. Staff no...
Summertime and the Living’s Easy without Plastic
By Jess Barger, ZWH Projects Manager
You may be familiar with the statistic that about 10% of plastic waste generated in the U.S. every year...
CNPS Happenings — August 2021
Stay Updated:
www.northcoastcnps.org
https://www.facebook.com/NorthCoastCNPS/
CNPS welcomes everyone. No expertise required.
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Evening Programs will resume in September--we hope in-person as well as via Zoom!
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Field Trips Pay attention to the...
Nexus: Food Holds the Power to Harm or Heal
by Tamara McFarland, Cooperation Humboldt
Food holds power. The power to heal or to harm. To connect or to divide. To restore or to exploit....
Get Ready for Coastal Cleanup Month 2021!
by Ivy Munnerlyn, Coastal Programs Coordinator
Well, folks...it’s that time of year again! At the NEC, August means one thing: Coastal Cleanup Day is right...
Book Review: Working Together on Working Together, The ‘Prosocial’ Method for Building Cooperative Groups
By Michael D. Pulliam
Why do people cooperate together? How can you help a group you care about to function well instead of stalling out...
Eye on Washington August 2021
by Dan Sealy
For 50 years, EcoNews Documents That Change Is Slow
Readers of the early EcoNews might be surprised and somewhat baffled that many, if...
Get On Board For The Climate: Proceeding with Caution
by Martha Walden for 350 Humboldt
Like everything else, aquaculture has its benefits and drawbacks. At a time when fisheries are collapsing around the world...
Solutions Summit
by Michael D. Pulliam
HSU'S COMMERCIAL SEAWEED FARM
Humboldt Bay is host to California's first commercially-approved seaweed farm, thanks to a partnership between Humboldt State University...