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News From the Center
by Larry Glass and Carrie Tully
As environmentally conscious people grapple with the spread of COVID-19, we must point out the obvious: that the same...
Getting Out With Latino Outdoors
by Johanna Rivera
The Humboldt County Department of Public Health has recognized the importance of outdoor recreation as an essential activity during the shelter in...
Two-Basin Solution Progresses, But Questions Remain About Dam Removal
by Caroline Griffith
The Scott Dam is one step closer to coming down, allowing Eel River salmon passage to upstream habitat for the first time...
Outlaw Cannabis Operations Continue Growing on Public Lands
by Caroline Griffith
While the shelter-in-place order is keeping much of California safely at home, there is one group of people who are taking advantage...
Baykeeper Launches Humboldt Coastal Biodiversity Project
Jennifer Kalt, Director
Do you love walking along the Eureka Waterfront Trail and the Humboldt Bay Trail in Arcata? Have you often admired a wildflower,...
County Planning Commission Denies Billboard Permit
Jennifer Kalt, Humboldt Baykeeper
In a first for Humboldt County, the Planning Commission voted 4-2 on May 7 to deny a permit to "reconstruct" a...
Solutions to the Pedestrian Safety Crisis on Broadway
by Caroline Griffith
The City of Eureka, along with Humboldt County Association of Governments and CalTrans, are developing a plan to address safety and multimodal...
When Rodents Are a Problem, Raptors Are The Solution
by Jaime Carlino
Raptors Are The Solution (RATS) is a non-profit organization working with a coalition of NGOs, agencies, scientists, municipalities, and individuals to work...
Planet of the Humans: A Review
by David Cobb
Planet of the Humans debuted on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and has provoked widespread praise and criticism. Almost everyone in...
Learn to Sustain Your Climate Activism, Read A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety
by Alicia Hamann
Sarah Jaquette Ray’s A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet is an excellent resource...
Sammy Gensaw, Kin to the Earth
By Amber Jamieson
Born in the struggle and raised in the resistance, Samuel Gensaw III is a natural born leader who was molded into a...
CNPS Happenings 2020 June
by Carol Ralph
www.northcoastcnps.org and https://www.facebook.com/NorthCoastCNPS/
The California Native Plant Society is an organization that brings together science, education, conservation, and gardening to...
Safe, Healthy Transportation is Always Essential
by Colin Fiske
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing all of us to rethink the way we do things and to adopt new strategies and practices...
This Wasp Kills Black Widows: Meet the Mud Dauber
By Rhiannon Lewis-Stephenson and Tom Wheeler
The mud dauber wasp wins the award for the most badass wasp. Mud daubers, a common name for solitary...
Monarch Butterfly: A Regal Species in Trouble
by Dan Sealy
In the 1980’s over 4.5 million monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus plexippus) migrated from the California mountain foothills and the Central Valley to...
The Law Firm of Marten, Fisher, and Owl
By Tom Wheeler
EPIC is proud to announce its association with the Law Firm of Marten, Fisher and Owl. A West Coast firm, Marten, Fisher...
Klamath Salmon 2020 Outmigration: Late storms, a threatened lawsuit and faulty stream adjudications
Felice Pace, North Group Water Chairperson
In the February/March ECONEWS I reported on the difficulties Chinook and Coho salmon faced getting to their spawning grounds...
Will COVID-19 Undo Environmental Gains to Reduce Plastics?
By Gifford Hall and Maggie Gainer
Zero Waste Humboldt urges Redwood Coast residents to join us in learning to adapt to the challenges of the...
Looking to Make an Impact on Your Community? How About a Job in Environmental...
Carolyn Hawkins, REHS
The interaction of people and their environment can bring many things...inspiration, enjoyment, health and renewal but it can also bring disease, as...
Trash-A-Thon!
In the midst of quarantine the NEC staff has been working hard to come up with creative ways to safely rally our community into...
Where Conservation Meets National Politics, NEC Legislative Interns Keep Us Up-To-Date
by Caroline Griffith
With the 2020 Presidential and Congressional elections swirling in the foreground, important conservation legislation and policies are on the table, being written,...
Eye on Washington: June 2020
Dan Sealy, Legislative Analyst
California Water Wars Forever
As spring moves to summer, the perpetual water concerns of the West rise in level perhaps near that...
Get On Board For The Climate: Organic Waste
by Martha Walden, What Now Coalition
My last column was all about the Humboldt Climate Challenges we had scheduled throughout the month of March from...
Shorts: Bite-Sized Bits of Interest and Positivity
Protesting Just Got Easier
Due to COVID 19, the Bureau of Land Management will accept emailed protests of oil and gas lease sales “for the...
Poetry: The Rage of the Barred Owl
by Ellen E. Taylor
When Moon unmasks your naked face
And gilds your gun with diamonds green
I mark your progress from afar.
You stumble toward my roosting...