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Redwood Region Logging Conference looks back and forward
Many say going to the annual, fair-like Redwood Region Logging Conference is like stepping back in time to an era when the timber industry was booming, fueled by brawny, bearded lumberjacks and by the locomotive, which was still faster than anything imaginable.
An education in wildlife at Logging Conference
The Redwood Region Logging Conference was in its second day Friday at the Ukiah fairgrounds. Despite some rain on opening day, conference goers have been greeted by pleasant spring weather.
‘Prettiest run around’
‘Prettiest run around’ [Daily Triplicate]
Event has become annual tradition for hundreds
Not even rain, snow nor a fallen redwood tree has stopped participants over the years at the Redwood Wild River Run.
Since the early 1980s the event has become an annual tradition for hundreds of runners who enjoy the breathtaking route through the redwoods.
This year’s race begins at 11 a.m. on Saturday, 10 miles northeast of Crescent City off of South Fork Road.
Local running enthusiast Russ Burnett has taken part in triathlons throughout the nation, including the Ironman in Hawaii.
To him, nothing beats the scenery offered by this run.
Obituaries: Morris Wayne Fugate (Oct. 04, 1939 – Mar. 23, 2010)
Obituaries: Morris Wayne Fugate (Oct. 04, 1939 – Mar. 23, 2010) [Daily Triplicate]
Morris Wayne Fugate, 70, passed away on March 23, 2010 in Crescent City, CA. He was born on October 4, 1939 in Crivitz, Wisc. He was a 57 year resident of Del Norte County.
Morris was a member of the BPOE Elks Lodge # 1689, member of the Hiouchi Community Fellowship Church and former member of the Redwood Scramblers Motorcycle Club. He worked in the timber industry for over 50 years and was employed by Rellim and the Simpson Mills. He was an avid bowler who bowled for Larry’s Auto Supply and enjoyed ocean fishing and crabbing.
Redwood Region Logging Conference opens at fairgrounds
The sight, sounds, smells of industry are there. You can smell fresh cut redwood as boards are milled from portable sawmills and hear the sound of a steam whistle from an old logging train at the Redwood Region Logging Conference at the fairgrounds.
College of the Redwoods hosts 2010 Maya conference
College of the Redwoods is expecting many North Coast scholars, archaeologists, anthropologists, geographers, epigraphers, and iconographers Saturday at the 2010 Humboldt County Maya Conference.
College of the Redwoods holds free financial aid workshops
College of the Redwoods will be offering free financial aid workshops on Thursday. The workshops start at 8:30 a.m. and 9:15 a. m. at CR’s main Eureka campus in the Learning Resource Center.
Forests as tourism gains ground
Art Harwood, executive director of the Redwood Forest Foundation, was a key presenter at a Geotourism Conference at the Scotia Hotel in Scotia on March 11.
Redwood Valley workshop offers water-wise recommendations
A water workshop by the Redwood Valley County Water District for its customers led off Saturday afternoon with a 60 strong crowd of Redwood Valley inhabitants.
North Coast all jazzed up: Redwood Coast Jazz Festival celebrates 20 years of music, community and singing in the rain
During the first Redwood Coast Jazz Festival 20 years ago, organizers remember placing the big white tents around downtown Eureka, the sound of music in the air and the pouring rain.
Redwood Coast Music Festivals announces guild
Redwood Coast Music Festivals announced the formation of the RCMF Guild last week, in hopes of encouraging more support for the nonprofit’s community festivals from its local supporters.
March 27 benefit for Haiti relief
In an attempt to write large checks and have more of an impact for Haiti relief, a benefit for the people of Haiti is set for Saturday, March 27, featuring Latin dance music by Pura Vida at Frey Vineyards in Redwood Valley.
Environmentalists, political leaders push to derail San Francisco Bay Saltworks development
Shallow salt beds cover a 1,436-acre former salt production site in Redwod City where agribusiness giant Cargill Inc. and Arizona-based DMB Associates want to build up to 12,000 housing units. More than 100 environmental and political leaders have singed a petition opposing the project.
REDWOOD CITY – A proposal to construct the largest housing development on the shores of San Francisco Bay in more than 40 years has run headlong into a phalanx of environmentalists and politicians who want to derail the project even before initial environmental studies begin.
The so-called Saltworks 50-50 Plan would build as many as 12,000 housing units on about 1,400 acres of what is now a retired salt production facility just east of Highway 101, not far from the San Mateo Bridge in Redwood City.
The proposal, being pitched by agribusiness giant Cargill Inc. and Arizona-based DMB Associates, has come under political fire in recent weeks by more than 100 environmental and political leaders who signed a petition asking Redwood City officials to cease any further consideration of the proposal.
“Nothing so breathtaking in size or misguided in scope has been proposed in half a century,” reads the preamble to the Feb. 26 petition circulated by Oakland-based Save the Bay.
“Salt ponds are not land to be paved,” the petition continues. “They are part of San Francisco Bay to be restored to tidal marsh for wildlife habitat, natural flood protection for our communities, cleaner water and recreation areas for everyone to enjoy.”
The list of petition signers reads like a Bay Area who’s who, including state Sen. Mark Leno and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, and David Chiu, president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Officials from all nine Bay Area counties have signed it, including 13 mayors, 11 members of the Association of Bay Area Governments and eight members of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.
David Lewis, executive director of Save the Bay, called the project unprecedented since a 1965 state law called the McAteer-Petris Act gave birth to what is now the 27-member Bay Conservation and Development Commission. The law has served as the key legal provision preserving the bay from being indiscriminately filled.
“We don’t pave over restorable wetlands. We don’t need an EIR to tell us that,” Lewis said, using shorthand for a state-required environmental impact report.
To be sure, officials acknowledge that the bay is one-third smaller than it was during the state’s Gold Rush of 1848-1855 as a result of developers filling in the waterway.
But according to David Smith, a DMB Associates vice president, the project wouldn’t be built on either bay fill or a former tidal marsh, but on land used in industrial salt production since 1901.
“We’re perplexed as to why these Bay Area environmental groups and these political leaders would want to stop the CEQA process,” Smith said, referring to the California Environmental Quality Act, which requires environmental review of such development. “If anything, you would think they would want to get all the facts out about this project.”
Smith says Minnesota-based Cargill and DMB see the proposal as a chance to build high-quality, transit-oriented housing for Silicon Valley-area workers who now commute from far away. As currently designed, the development would accommodate about 30,000 people and feature a large number of upscale apartments and condos.
Saltworks project proponents have been floating the idea around Redwood City for the past three or four years. What’s changed in recent weeks is that Redwood City officials have started looking for consultants to put together the environmental impact report that CEQA requires. It’s expected to take from 18 to 24 months to complete.
Redwood City Mayor Jeff Ira says the environmental study must be allowed to proceed.
“I appreciate how passionate people are about this – I really do,” Ira said last week. “But the study will provide us with important information that we don’t have now. … Only then, with that information, can we make the best decision possible.”
Even so, Lewis and other critics say they plan to keep pressuring Ira and the Redwood City Council until the panel drops the Saltworks project entirely.
If the coalition is successful, Lewis said, the next step would be for federal authorities or a nonprofit conservation group to buy the land and let it revert to a tidal marsh. Examples of similar efforts dot the South Bay and Peninsula shorelines and surround the Saltworks property.
Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors President John Gioia, a veteran member of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission and one of the eight commissioners who signed the petition, agrees.
“This proposal is a direct assault on the whole Bay Area,” Gioia said in a statement. “We all have a stake in what happens in Redwood City. It’s about habitat (and) biological diversity. The bay defines our quality of life and who we are.”
A drainage site.
Business Sense: Telling the story of the North Coast
Efforts to create the Redwood Coast National Heritage Area are gathering steam in Humboldt, Del Norte and Mendocino counties. Advisory committees, comprised of people with heritage, cultural, tribal, preservation and tourism credentials, have met