News from the Center – Feb/Mar2018
2017 saw an unprecedented attack on environmental regulations nationwide.
Your local environmental groups are the first line of defense in Humboldt County and on the North Coast. e Northcoast Environmental Center has been a hub...
Eye on Washington Feb/Mar 2018
Environmental protections and laws that conservationists fought for decades to establish are under attack from President Trump’s administration in his first year in office,with the help of Congress. Those laws and programs were established...
Kin to the Earth: Colin Fiske
Here’s my secret: I have an activist crush on Colin Fiske. He is an idealist, driven by large and weighty principles like “fairness” and “community,” but in practice, Colin is a pragmatist, ever able...
Creature Feature – Sonoma Tree Vole
The Sonoma tree vole (Arborimus pomo), also known as the California red tree mouse, is a small rodent that spends nearly its entire life high in the canopy of old-growth forests. is vole inhabits...
Student Focus: HSU’s Environmental Studies Club
Humboldt State University’s Environmental Studies Club is intended for, but not limited to, students who major in environmental studies at HSU. The purpose of the club is to unite interdisciplinary perspectives in order to...
Volunteer Spotlight – Robert Thoman
I started delivering EcoNews to McKinleyville in the late 70s. I had done some work converting the beauty parlor next to the old NEC to expand the offices of the NEC. I also started...
Get to Know the Environmental Agency Players
Learn about the people in charge of our government’s environmental and public lands agencies.
While a divided Congress has struggled to pass legislation to send to the President to achieve a conservative agenda, the current...
Offshore Oil Development Plans Proposed
On January 4, 2018, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke released a new proposal that would open nearly all offshore areas to new oil and gas development. Zinke’s draft plan would mandate 47 new offshore lease...
Victory in California Pesticide Case for SAFE and Public Health
In a dramatic setback for the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), a California court issued an injunction prohibiting further activity under the State’s Programmatic Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) for the Statewide Plant...
Post-Fire Westerman Bill: a Clearcutter’s Dream
Big timber players and their political allies are again exploiting forest fires to promote clearcutting. The inevitable wildfires in fire country could encourage us to better prepare communities and ecosystems for future fires. ey could...
Jordan Cove LNG—Increasing Global Emissions While Undermining Clean Energy Transition
Press Release - Oil Change International and Rogue Climate
A new report released by Oil Change International details, for the first time, the full accounting of greenhouse gas emissions that would result from the proposed...
Titlow Hill: Trees and Prairies, or Houses and Marijuana Grows?
The Titlow Hill area is about twelve miles west of Willow Creek and bounded by Highway 299, Titlow Hill Road/US Route 1, and upper Redwood Creek. Parcel and portion-of-parcel owners (many of them marijuana...
Retail Poison Ban Insufficient Protection for Wildlife
In 2014, the State of California banned a rat poison that had been determined to cause sickness and death in an increasing number of wild animals—second generation anti-coagulant rodenticides (SGARs) sold in retail stores...
Sea Level Rise and the Ongoing Railroad Saga
The EcoNews Report Report: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
On the January 4 EcoNews Report (broadcast on KHSU, 90.5 FM), Friends of the Eel River (FOER) Conservation Director Scott Greacen met with Executive Director Stephanie Tidwell to discuss the decade-long battle...
Fifth Annual Steelhead Days
Humboldt Steelhead Days is more than just a fishing contest—it’s a winter celebration of all things steelhead. The ever-evolving event is in its fifth year and continues to host an array of watershed-related activities...
Trump Administration to Trinity River Stakeholders: You’re Fired!
In November 2017, President Trump’s Interior Department disbanded the federal advisory committee for the Trinity River Restoration Program (TRRP)—a $15 million/year fishery restoration program in northwestern California. The Trinity Adaptive Management Working Group (TAMWG)...
Special Allowance for Floodplain Cannabis Lab Sought by Eureka-Based Mercer-Fraser
On January 17, the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District Board (HBMWD) voted unanimously to appeal the Humboldt County Planning Commission’s approval of a cannabis extraction and manufacturing facility just upstream from the intakes for...
Protect the Siskiyou Crest
The Klamath National Forest (KNF) is proposing to eviscerate one of the most important wildlife corridors and backcountry areas in California. The Siskiyou Crest, which straddles the California-Oregon border, provides east to west landscape...
Grazing Monitoring on the Six Rivers National Forest
This spring, the North Group will join the Project to Reform Public Land Grazing in Northern California (www.grazingreform.org) to begin monitoring how grazing is managed on national forest land in the upper Mad River...
Biodiversity Loss Bigger Than Climate Change
“This is bigger than climate change.” Those were the words of Dave Imper, respected “retired” rare plant advocate and our October evening program speaker. He was referring to the short- term impact on biodiversity...
