by Daniel Mintz
More than a year in the making, an advisory plan for using the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District’s water surplus includes an option that was torpedoed when it was proposed a few years ago — shipping water out of the county, to another municipality. A report by a 15-member Water Resource Planning Advisory Committee was [...]
Philo’s Daniel Myers, representing Friends of the Navarro Watershed and the Mendocino Chapter of the Sierra Club, took the podium at last Wednesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting to tell the Board that the Navarro River flow gauging station was “in jeopardy due to lack of funding.”Subscribe now to access our entire site—only $25 for 1 [...]
There is nothing more sincere than a guitar. A few simple chords, plucked or picked one note after the other at a gently swaying tempo summon reflexive feelings of trust, comfort, love, and hope. This elemental musical style works for the lullaby and the love song, the meditation and the memorial. Few musical tasks are [...]
by Daniel Mintz
Four environmental groups are preparing a lawsuit against the North Coast Railroad Authority (NCRA) alleging that the agency is segmenting environmental review for redevelopment of its 316-mile rail line. The Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC), Humboldt Baykeeper, Friends of the Eel River and Californians for Alternatives to Toxics signed on to a July 29 letter [...]
As summer heats up, the water temperatures in the lower reaches of the North Fork of the Feather River may rise above 70 degrees Fahrenheit — uncomfortably and even dangerously warm for the native rainbow trout that live there. But cooler waters could be coming from upstream as PG&E, initially prompted by the demands of [...]
by Dan Bacher
In a historic protest on July 21, members of dozens of California Indian Tribes and their allies marched through the streets of downtown Fort Bragg protesting the violation of indigenous fishing and gathering rights under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative. “This is the biggest protest on any issue held on the [...]
by Bruce Brady
Somehow, losing the world should have been harder, but much of the ride was exhilarating, even fun. It feels like this to be in the car that’s crested the first long climb on the roller coaster to the place where every fiber of your being still tuned to survival begins to understand the empty sky [...]
by Dan Bacher
Writer Beth Werner claims, “Most people have heard of the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) in one way or another, but there seems to be some confusion as to what is fact or fiction.” However, for people that have actually examined the implementation of the MLPA Initiative since Governor Arnold Schwarzengger privatized the process in [...]
Each March, gray whales by the thousands flood into the large lagoons of Baja California’s Pacific coast to give birth. Not this year.
