Have You Seen An Algal Bloom? Report it!
Have you seen an algal bloom in your local waterway? Keep your community safe by reporting it at mywaterquality.ca.gov/habs/do/bloomreport.html
Creature Feature: Common Loon
The Common Loon is a large waterfowl in the diving bird family. Loons can be found throughout the entirety of North America, but their location depends on the time of year. The Common Loon...
Mindful Monday: The Usefulness of Ritual
“The importance of rituals in helping mourners cope is undisputed, however, and I see no reason why ecologists should not tap this resource in these difficult times. We could create a quilt of our...
Truck Drivers Needed in September!
Are you a pickup truck owner with a passion for environmental stewardship? We need your help during Coastal Cleanup Month!
We are looking for volunteers who can make a couple dump runs during the weekends...
Creature Feature: Braun’s Giant Horsetail
The Braun’s Giant Horsetail is a shrub-like plant belonging to the fern family. While Horsetails are widespread throughout most temperate continents, the Braun’s Giant Horsetail is one of the few sub-variations of horsetail native...
Mindful Monday: Five Principles of Empowerment
Five Principles of Empowerment
Feelings of pain for our world are natural and healthy: they are a measure of our humanity.
Pain is morbid only if denied: …despair, like any emotion, is dynamic —...
Bonfire 101: Don’t Burn Pallets
It's the perfect time of year for a beach bonfire, so here's a tip to help reduce bonfire litter on Humboldt beaches. Pallets are a cheap alternative to firewood, but they leave behind hundreds...
Creature Feature: Chinook Salmon
The Chinook Salmon is a migratory fish native to the North Pacific Ocean and surrounding river systems, ranging throughout the Alaska and California coastline. The typical lifespan of Chinook Salmon averages from one to...
Trash Totals Update
Over the last two years, NEC volunteers have been hard at work collecting trash and recording data. Since May 2020, volunteers have removed 64,022 pieces of trash from Humboldt streets, parks, and beaches. Wow!...
Creature Feature: Double-crested Cormorant
The Double-crested Cormorant is a large water bird native to North America. While widely distributed throughout North America its year-round habitat range consists of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska to the central coasts of...
Mindful Monday: Ecopsychology
“In contrast, an ecologically responsible construction of the self will require what Arne Naess calls an “ecological self,” which includes not only growth in human relationships with family and community, but a broadening of...
Creature Feature: Nuttall’s Cockle
The Nuttall's Cockle is a species of clam found in the Western coastal areas of North America. Their native range is along the west coast, specifically from the Bering Sea of Alaska to San...
Mindful Monday: In Any Event
IN ANY EVENT
by Dorianne Laux from
How to Love the World, Poems of Gratitude and Hope
If we are fractured
we are fractured
like stars
bred to shine
in every direction,
through any dimension,
billions of years
since and hence.
I shall not lament
the...
Creature Feature: Sitka Spruce
The Sitka Spruce is an evergreen tree originally found within the southern regions of Alaska; the Sitka Spruce's habitat can range from the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska to Fort Bragg, California. The Sitka Spruce...
Firework Litter
Did you know that firework litter is harmful to our beaches, oceans, forest, and wildlife?
If you're planning to celebrate with fireworks this weekend, please consider the impacts and clean up after the festivities.
Creature Feature: Black Oyster Catcher
The Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani) is a distinguishable seabird with black plumage and orange-reddish facial features. Residing along rocky shores, the Black Oystercatcher's habitat stretches from the islands of Alaska to the peninsula of...
Mindful Monday: Eco Feminism
M I N D F U L ☼ M O N D A Y
“What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body,...
Creature Feature: Gumboot Chiton
The Gumboot Chiton (Cryptochiton stelleri), or Met-k'aa-chu in the Tolowa language, is a peculiar, yet intriguing mollusk that lives within the intertidal and subtidal zones of Humboldt county. Found along the northern Pacific coastline...
Mindful Monday: Spiritual Ecology Study Club
Provided by Advaya, the Spiritual Ecology Study Club is “a monthly community space to deepen and develop our perspectives in the work of reuniting people, the living world and the sacred. Over the year,...
Mindful Monday: Introduce Yourself
When you find yourself in a new place, on a new land, how do you begin building a relationship? However long or short you find yourself in a place, one way to show respect...
Support the Six Rivers!
Do you love the Six Rivers? Support this documentary in the making:
"Wild Waters: The story of northern California's Watersheds".
These local filmmakers intend to portray the impacts of past and present human practices...
Mindful Monday: Spell for Grief
Excerpt from: Spell for Grief or Letting Go
“Remember you are water. Of course you leave salt trails. Of course you are crying. Flow.
P.S. If there happens to be a multitude of griefs upon you,...
Summer Reading List
Summer is here, which means it's a perfect time to head to the beach with a good book. Here's a few to consider!
What a Plant Knows:
A Field Guide to the Senses by Daniel Chamovitz...
Creature Feature: Marbled Godwit
The Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa) is a large migratory bird in the sandpiper family.
They breed in shortgrass prairies near wetlands during the summer and migrate to forage along coastal mudflats, estuaries, and sandy...
Mindful Monday: Unravelling the Stitches
“In the mountains and on this land, I feel at home and one with the world around me without having to give up who I am. We sleep on the ground, the earth our...