Posts Tagged ‘coast’
Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 13 March 2010
Several grueling closed session personnel meetings have occupied the Mendocino Coast Recreation and Park District board lately, all with the goal of reducing expenses to more closely match revenues as they are — not as the board had hoped or planned.

Tags: ca, California, coast, Humboldt, Mendocino, Northern California
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 12 March 2010
Hands off the pups [Daily Triplicate]
Mammal Center warns beachgoers not to interfere
Despite the feathery soft fur and dark, come-hither eyes that make harbor seal pups appear both heartbreakingly cute and helpless to certain beachgoers, officials from the Northcoast Marine Mammal Center are urging people to stay away.
Each year during harbor seal pupping season, which runs from mid-February through April, the local Marine Mammal Center receives around 100 calls from concerned citizens about abandoned or injured pups that have been left alone on beaches in Del Norte and Humboldt Counties.

Tags: ca, coast, Humboldt, Local
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 12 March 2010
Local commercial fishermen say they’re not optimistic about this year’s salmon prospects, even after a federal panel recommended reopening the fishing season along the California coast, with restrictions.

Tags: ca, California, coast, fishing, fishing season, Humboldt, Local, Northern California, Salmon
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 12 March 2010
Even the worst case scenario for North Coast ocean sport fishermen this year appears to be substantially better than last year’s token fishery. At the same time, commercial salmon fishermen — having struggled with several recent years of

Tags: ca, coast, fishing, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, Local, Sacramento, Salmon
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 12 March 2010
For six minutes on Thursday, Northcoast Resource Center Executive Director John Shelter experienced a state of paranoia and hallucination. He heard voices in his head, saw people on TV addressing him directly and thought his food looked and

Tags: ca, coast, Eureka, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, law, law enforcement, Local
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 11 March 2010
Several grueling closed session personnel meetings have occupied the Mendocino Coast Recreation and Park District board lately, all with the goal of reducing expenses to more closely match revenues as they are — not as the board had hoped or planned.

Tags: ca, California, coast, Humboldt, Mendocino, Northern California
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 11 March 2010
The Mendocino Coast Chamber of Commerce had a great kick-off weekend for the Mendocino Coast Whale Festival Month, reports Debra De Graw, Chamber CEO
The first weekend in March is the Mendocino Whale Festival.

Tags: ca, California, coast, festival, Humboldt, Mendocino, Northern California
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 11 March 2010
Schools eye life skills, young parents [Daily Triplicate]
Board will also look at options for Castle Rock
New services for young parents and a change in class offerings will be
discussed Thursday by the Del Norte County Unified School District
Board members.
They will also talk about their options for Castle Rock Charter School,
which was recently included on a proposed list of California’s
lowest-performing schools.
Board members will decide whether to let Northcoast Children’s Services
open a new child development program at Sunset Continuation High School.

Tags: ca, California, coast, Del Norte County, Humboldt, school district
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 11 March 2010
EUREKA – Despite a long recession, high unemployment rates and recovery from a housing bubble, Coast Central Credit Union remained very strong, according to a press release.

Tags: coast, employment, Eureka, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, unemployment
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 11 March 2010
ARCATA — The Arcata Community Recycling Center, in collaboration with the Arcata Elementary School District, is one of 23 organizations to be awarded funding through the California Coastal Commission’s competitive Whale Tail License Plate Fund

Tags: Arcata, ca, California, coast, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, school district
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 11 March 2010
If you are looking for good value when it comes to growing a nutritious vegetable, a beet can’t be beat. From top to bottom, this easy-to-grow vegetable can be entirely consumed.

Tags: ca, coast, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 10 March 2010
There’s too much water in the Russian River, and not enough in the Eel. Yet Eel River water continues to be diverted to the Russian.
Friends of the Eel River (FOER) is petitioning the State Water Board to help both rivers, and Humboldt County may get involved after comments at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting.
Fisheries biologist Pat Higgins said dams need to be removed, and “the time for action is now.”
“We can’t wait for FERC,” Higgins said, referring to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. “We’ve been FERCing around with them for too long.”
The county may get involved in the FOER’s effort, according to Supervisor Jimmy Smith. He said he will bring more information to the Board in a future meeting when the topic can be put on the agenda. The Board was prevented from taking action Tuesday because the issue was raised during the public comment portion of the meeting.
Supervisor Clif Clendenen called for the return of historic flows to the Eel during his 2008 campaign.
Congressman Mike Thompson told KMUD in 2008 that Eel River water wouldn’t be returned “any time soon.” Perhaps he’ll find some enthusiasm in light of recent bad news for both rivers.
For more check out FOER’s press release announcing their petition:
There were over 500,000 salmon in the Eel River Basin before the operation of PG&E’s PVP hydroelectric operations. Last year’s count came in at fewer than 500. And on the Russian River, the threat to endangered salmon and steelhead is equally dire. During the peak spawning months, the diversion of Eel River water into the Russian River creates flows that have been too high for fish in critical reaches of the Russian River; flows which must be reduced by a mandate of NMFS’ Russian River Biological Opinion 2008.
KMUD aired audio from the Supervisors meeting on Tuesday’s 6:00 news, which can be heard in the archives.


Tags: ca, California, CAMP, coast, Eel River, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Jimmy Smith, Mike Thompson, Northern California, PG&E, Salmon, steelhead, UPD
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 09 March 2010
Back to work at the lighthouse [Daily Triplicate]
If you had trained a high-powered telescope on the St. George Reef
Lighthouse last Saturday you might have glimpsed mammals not observed
there in several years — people.
After three years away from the North Coast icon, members of the
lighthouse’s Preservation Society arrived by helicopter Saturday to
find most things as they left them, with a few surprises.

Tags: ca, coast, Humboldt
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 09 March 2010


Two months ago, after the 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck the North Coast, The Ink People Center For the Arts in Eureka still remains in a temporary location.
Tags: ca, California, coast, earthquake, Eureka, Humboldt, KIEM, Northern California
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 08 March 2010
THE COAST NEEDS YOUR HELP
The Coast is under attack and this time, if the proposal to require the Coastal Commission to pay for all legal services previously supplied by the Attorney General is approved, it will leave the Commission with very limited ability to defend itself in a lawsuit or enforce the Coastal Act.

Tags: attorney, ca, coast, Humboldt, law, lawsuit, Northern California
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