As a relatively dry fall gives way to winter, local residents are hoping for a good rain year while still worried that it will be another dry year and possibly the start of another drought. The alarming trajectory we’ve seen in recent years of low rainfall in the Navarro and throughout northern California threaten the security of our water supply as well as the health of our rivers and fisheries.
Posts published in “Day: November 28, 2018”
Eighteenth century judge and philosopher Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu is credited with first developing the concept of the letter and the spirit of…
Ken Hurst stopped in Sunday. Ken and his wife Joanadel are being sheltered by a Valley samaritan while they try to put their lives back together after the loss of their home to fire on Friday, November 16th. “We lost everything, and I mean everything,” Ken said, “including our family histories.” He said the fire began about six in the morning on the deck of the two-story house overlooking the Navarro.
In the 1970s, young journeyers from urban and suburban America seeking to reinvent themselves in rural environs began moving to Mendocino County digging in and working to gain the skills they would need to thrive in this new home. They built lives and raised families. Eventually, of course, this phenomenon became known as the Back to the Land Movement. Roughly speaking we are now at the 50th anniversary of the beginning of that wave.
Soccer Champs;
River Level;
Unsettled Weather;
Pet Adoptions;
B Material;
Toy Drive;
Monopoly Mike;
Little Dog;
Ed Notes;
Yesterday's Catch;
Sweeping Genius;
Cheapskate;
Pop-ups;
Rat Reform;
Amen;
Prop 57;
Library Events;
Wrong Direction;
Ceramics Sale;
Malheur Enterprise;
Steelhead Effort;
Fred Trump;
Perverse Priorities;
Market Value
You certainly don’t need me telling you that the past three years of these prodigiously destructive wildfires are unprecedented chapters in California history. The last…
Here, along the Albion River, we are getting some much needed rain. A hard rain often sends our cattle uphill. Unfortunately, some of the current…
A Humbolt County staff report states that sea level rise is “a significant threat to every aspect of life on the North Coast” but opinions…
When Ron Edwards described Mendo County's cockamamie marijuana policy problems as the “Curse of the Ad Hoc” at the Supes’ Special Cannabis meeting last Thursday, Edwards' frustration was obvious.