November 2021 EcoNews
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From the Center
Fossil Fuels are back in the headlines again with a terrible oil leak from a ruptured pipeline along the southern California coast caused by...
OpEd: Why Is CAL FIRE Trying to Silence Its Critics?
Mendocino Trail Stewards
Author's note: we mean no disrespect to first responders, but CAL FIRE has two conflicting mandates—forestry and fire response, making any criticism...
Los votantes de justicia climática deberían estar comunicándose sus demandas al gobernador Gavin Newsom...
Por Elena Bilheimer, traducido por Jasmin Segura
El 14 de septiembre, los votantes de California optaron no revocatar a Gavin Newsom en una elección especial...
Recall Ruminations
By Elena Bilheimer
Climate Justice Voters Should Be Communicating their Demands to Governor Gavin Newsom Now
On September 14, California voters chose not to recall Governor...
Railroaded: The History and (Possible) Futures of the Northwestern Pacific Rail Line
By Patty Clary, Director of Californians for Alternatives to Toxics (CATs)
An elegant solution to the problem of what to do with the northern 175...
Letters to EcoNews: Let’s not leave off acting until the wolves are at the...
Of course coal is unacceptable and it is pleasing to watch the Supervisors, Huffman, McGuire and Wood beat the drum against opening up the...
Lawns: The American Dream or Nightmare?
By: Margaret Castro
Being a resident of Humboldt County means receiving a daily barrage of greenery. A study published in 2019 in the Frontiers of...
CNPS Happenings – November 2021
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Evening Program
November 10, Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. "Our Treasured Coastal Prairies, Ecology and Maintenance". Despite their...
Power to the People and Plants; A Divine Union
By Alissa Rose
A group of people
Taking over unused land,
Nurturing the earth.
Neglected, trashed lots
Sprout vegetables and flowers,
Now birds are singing.
This land needs our love
Let’s plant...
Community Coastal Column: What is Kelp?
Ivy Munnerlyn, Coastal Programs Coordinator
Here in the Coastal Programs department of the NEC, we have fallen head over heels for all things KELP. You’ll...
CRTP: Sign the Broadway Petition!
Colin Fiske, CRTP Executive Director
The following is a petition sponsored by the Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities, along with the Northcoast Environmental Center, EPIC,...
Zero Waste Humboldt: Will Single Use Plastic Become the New Sin Tax?
By Maggie Gainer
‘Sin’ or public health taxes are excise taxes have been imposed on the consumption of products potentially harmful for health (sugar-sweetened beverages, tobacco, alcohol,...
EPIC: Take Action to Protect the Salmon River Watershed, Wildlife, and Wild Salmon Fisheries!
Kimberly Baker, EPIC
The Klamath National Forest is proposing a new timber sale within the Wild and Scenic Salmon River watershed. The Bear Country timber...
Making a Salmon Stronghold Stronger Still
by Vimal Golding, Field Biologist with the Smith River Alliance
On October 19, 2021, testimony was accepted on the Smith River National Recreation Area Expansion...
Mendocino Students Take A Stand, Organize School Strike for Climate on October 1st
by Ravel Gauthier
Mendocino Coast youth activists organized a youth-led climate strike at Heider Field in Mendocino Friday, October 1st and marched to Friendship Park...
Public Safety or Protecting Timber Assets? Locals Question Fire Response in Trinity
By Caroline Griffith
As wildfires raged in Trinity and Humboldt County in the late summer of 2021 and thousands of residents were under mandatory evacuation...
Rou Dalagurr: Food Sovereignty Lab & Cultural Workspace Breaks Ground
By Karley Rojas & Carrie Tully
In 2019, HSU Students in NAS 331 had a vision for a project that would re-indigenize the campus while...
Eye on Washington November 2021
Dan Sealy Legislative Analyst
A Vivid Reminder: “Where you drill you spill”
As Americans watched the horrors of the oil spill along the coast of Southern...
Court of Appeal Rejects California’s Blanket Approval of Pesticide Spraying
Press release Center for Biological Diversity
SACRAMENTO, Calif.— In a major victory for health and environmental groups, California’s Court of Appeal has ruled that a...
McKay Tract Draft EIR Released
Caroline Griffith
The Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for a controversial 81-acre subdivision in suburban Eureka is being recirculated again. The North McKay Ranch subdivision...
Citizens Redistricting Commission to Release Draft Maps
Caroline Griffith
The body charged with redrawing district boundaries for California’s State Senate and Assembly, and U.S. Congressional Districts is set to release draft district...
Get on Board for the Planet: Seaweed and Shellfish – Feast of the...
Martha Walden for 11th Hour
Three days of the Humboldt Bay Symposium for a Sustainable Blue Economy, September 28-30, painted a picture both sobering and...
Solutions Summit November 2021
by Michael D. Pulliam
'EVERWAVE' AND THE TRASH SPOUTS
Young German architect Marcella Hansch leads the design and deployment of trash-eating barges to remove tons of...
Creature Feature Compilation November 2021
Lea Eider, Coastal Programs Intern
Red Tailed Hawk
(Buteo Jamaicensis)
The Red-tailed Hawk is one of the most common hawks in North America. They are also one...