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A Dead-End Year For West Coast Fish

Much of the abundance of Pacific Northwest forests, meadows, and waterways is due to the region's fisheries. Salmon, for example, are crucial to the health of river and stream communities. Their carcasses provide enormous quantities…

Bird’s Eye View (Dec 30, 2015)

Hopefully you are enjoying the spirit of the Holidays and may I take this opportunity for Hummingbird and I to wish you and yours the very best of health and happiness for 2016. OK— that’s enough sloppy sentimentality for any Turkey Vulture to express, so let’s move swiftly on with a few insights and hard facts as to what is going on in the world, “out there” beyond them there hills.

Off the Record (Dec 30, 2015)

FORT BRAGG'S revived Taco Bell has customers lining up. Literally. And that's what strikes outsiders as odd, very odd. Why would non-starving people stand in line to get imitation Mexican junk food. But FB's Taco…

Pay Raises, Tax Breaks & Firefighter Funding

Comments from last Tuesday’s discussion of proposed big pay raises for the Sheriff and DA. Supervisor Tom Woodhouse, explaining why he supported and sponsored a big raise for the Sheriff and District Attorney: “We are…

Bird’s Eye View (Dec 23, 2015)

Merry/Happy Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzai/Holidays or whatever. I hope you are coping with all of the razzamatazz, hype, and pressure that this event smothers so many of us with. Every year it seems to get more frantic.

A Week At The Mendo Pot-Yacht Club

Navigating the pot laws is always exciting and Sara Fraker’s trial last week was even more like a regatta than most. Ms. Fraker claimed she was only house-sitting at the extensive Robinson Creek Road property…

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