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1

Eureka Cops Argue for Safer Streets

2

The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of Abalone with Author Ann Vileisis

3

Fish-killing Chemical Found in Local Water

4

Offshore Wind Port Development

5

Cleaning Up Cannabis

6

Get to Know River Otters!

7

Native Plant Nerds, Unite!

8

Is Your Fish Safe to Eat?

9

Bring Back Our Grizzlies!

10

What's Wrong with the Forest Service?

11

New Threat to Eel River Dam Removal?

12

How Can We Restore the Elk River?

13

A New Mandate for State-Owned Forests?

14

The "God Squad" Returns!

15

The Fight over Richardson Grove, Explain

16

Fix Your Stuff (And Save the Planet)

17

Transmission Upgrades for Offshore Wind

18

Asm. Rogers on this Legislative Session

19

Trump Spikes Climate Regulations

20

Wildlife Crossings Help Wildlife and Motorists

21

Fix Fourth and Fifth Streets in Eureka!

22

Climate Action Theatre

23

Dealing with Eco-Anxiety

24

Poems for a New Year

25

The Temperate Rainforests of North America

26

Local Governments to Finally Take Action on Climate Change?

27

Exploring the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, a Unique California Landscape Just a Few Hours From Humboldt

28

What’s So Special About the Siskiyou Crest?

29

Tell FERC That Eel River Dams Gotta Go!

30

The Water Remembers with Amy Bowers Cordalis

31

Northern Humboldt Indians

32

The Week Without Driving in the Rearview Mirror

33

Assemblymember Connolly Reflects on the Legislative Session

34

Are Your Easter Lilies Poisoning the Smith River?

35

Rethinking High-Severity Fires?

36

You Should Attend the Eel River Community Meeting

37

What Will Humboldt County’s New ‘Dark Skies’ Ordinance Accomplish?

38

New Crosswalk, Who Dis?

39

Talking CEQA Reforms

40

Electrifying Your Home is Cheaper Than You Think It Is, and You Can Find Out About It All at Tuesday’s Electrification Fair

41

The Next Big Step Toward Eel River Dam Removal

42

A Geological Perspective on Last Week’s Quake

43

A New 353-Acre Reserve on Baduwa’t

44

Batteries and Achieving 100 Percent Renewable Energy

45

When Driving is Not An Option

46

Potholes in the Forest Service Roadless Rule

47

Come Celebrate the Bay Trail!

48

Stopping the Spread of Golden Mussels

49

The Supreme Court and the National Environmental Policy Act

50

Is Offshore Wind Still on Humboldt's Horizon?

51

Pope Francis’ Environmental Legacy

52

Earthquake-Driven Subsidence Around Humboldt Bay

53

New Timber Harvest Plan for Jackson State Forest

54

Reviewing Trump's First 100-ish Days

55

How Much of Measure O Should Go to Public Transit?

56

Coastal Commission Under Attack

57

Celebrating Klamath Dam Removal Through Art

58

What is "Renewable Diesel?"

59

Can Offshore Wind Retire Gas Plants?

60

Trump has gutted NEPA. What does that mean?

61

Where does my power come from?

62

The Makers of the New Documentary on Baduwa’t Tell Us Why They Told the River’s Story

63

A Deal for the Eel?

64

What Does it Mean to be a Dark Sky Place, and Should Humboldt Become One?

65

Dissecting Trump's First Week

66

International Climate Action in a Trump Era

67

President Carter's Environmental Legacy

68

Green Burial: Thinking Outside the Coffin

69

Poet Jerry Martien Helps Soothe Your Soul

70

The Continuing Problem of Black Market Cannabis Trespass Grows

71

What Gives You Hope?

72

A Geological Perspective on Last Week’s Quake

73

Can We Clean Up Humboldt Bay Before the Sea Rises?

74

Solar is Coming to Hydesville!

75

Is Humboldt Bay the Canary in the Coal Mine for Sea Level Rise?

76

EcoNews: Election Recap: It Wasn't All Bad! (But Trump...)

77

Proposed Wood Pellet Biofuel Project Draws Criticism

78

Is Humboldt a "Climate Refuge?"

79

Conversation with Congressman Jared Huffman

80

A Week Without Driving

81

Wolves are Returning to California

82

How Will Groundwater be Regulated After This Significant Court Ruling?

83

Draft Climate Act Plan Released

84

What If Measure F Passes?

85

EcoNews: Letting Go of Your Eco-Grief

86

How to Think About Fire (From a Fire Expert)

87

Clean Water on the Ballot

88

Northwest Forest Plan at 30

89

The Gang Goes to Norway

90

Top 10 Questions About Offshore Wind

91

Chevron Overturned: What It Means for Our Environment

92

"Project 2025" and the Environment

93

Controversial Biomass Proposal's Tie to Humboldt County

94

Rising Seas and the Future of Humboldt Bay

95

Wiyot Tribe and BLM Partner for Stewardship of Headwaters

96

Opportunities and Challenges for the Great Redwood Trail

97

Offshore Wind Developers on Exploring the Ocean Floor

98

Remembering Petey Brucker

99

In-Stream Flows Set to Expire for Klamath Tributaries. What's Next?

100

Protecting In-Stream Flows in the Mad River

101

Toxic Soup in the Smith River

102

Coping with Climate Anxiety

103

How Do Fish Get Counted, and Why Does Genetic Diversity Matter?

104

Can We Clean Up Humboldt Bay Before the Sea Rises?

105

You Loved the Movie. Now See Humboldt's Dunes!

106

Dam Removal is Sometimes Messy (But Worth It)

107

Hydrogen Buses Coming to Humboldt

108

Is Humboldt Bay the Canary in the Coal Mine for Sea Level Rise?

109

Delving Deeper into Port Electrification

110

Greening the Grid

111

Declining Access to Public Spaces

112

How Did the Harbor District Land Almost Half a Billion Dollars?

113

Supply Skepticism: Can Building More Housing Reduce Costs?

114

Coho Salmon in Downtown Arcata?

115

Poetry for a New Year

116

California's Third Shakiest Earthquake

117

Barred Owls Impact More than Spotted Owls

118

The Bird Buzz with Ken Burton

119

Meet the Energy Superstar at the Hoopa Valley Public Utilities District

120

California's Coast vs. Sea Level Rise

121

What Has Sacramento Done for Us Lately?

122

Rep. Huffman Talks Legislative Priorities

123

How much do you know about Humboldt Bay Oysters?

124

HumCo Climate Action Plan Careening Towards Cliff?

125

Tsunamis, Sea Level Rise, and Humboldt Bay's Spent Nuclear Waste Site

126

Looking Back on a Week Without Driving

127

The Latest on the Seismically Unsafe Scott Dam

128

What’s the Deal with all the Construction on Highway 101?

129

EcoNews: Celebrate Latino Heritage Month with Latino Outdoors

130

Coastal Cleanup Month is Here!

131

An Ode to the Humble (and Humboldt) Oyster

132

Kids Beat Montana to Uphold Right to a Healthy Environment

133

Sonoma Proposal for Eel River Dams and Why Humboldt Should Be Wary

134

Are Environmental Laws in the Way?

135

What's a Walkable Community?

136

NIMBY Initiative on the Ballot?

137

What's In Store for Offshore Port Development?

138

Celebrate Plastic Free July!

139

Increasing Water Levels in the South Fork Eel River

140

Exploring Sea Otter Reintroduction

141

What’s That Fence In the River?

142

Confused by the Cones on Broadway?

143

A Trip Back in Time to the Ghost Forest, With Author and Redwood Summer Veteran Greg King

144

Community Benefits from Offshore Wind?

145

Protecting 30% of California by 2030

146

To Save an Owl, We Kill an Owl?

147

How to Run a Rural Transit Agency

148

New Fish, Who Dis?

149

When Enviros are Pro-Development

150

Suing the Feds for Klamath Water

151

Bird Nerds Rejoice: Godwit Days are Here Again!

152

PG&E Finally Taking Dam Safety Seriously

153

Tsunamis, Sneaker Waves, and Climate Change

154

Solving The Climate Crisis Requires More Than Just Electrifying Your Pick-up Truck

155

Tribal Marine Stewards Network

156

Save Money While Saving the Planet

157

Congressman Jared Huffman Returns to the Show to Spill All the DC Tea

158

Big Gov't Isn't Coming to Steal Your Gas Stove (But Maybe It Should)

159

New Legislation to Return Local Control Over (Some) Pesticide Spraying

160

The Central Valley Project and its North Coast Connections

161

Climate Change Supercharging Winter Storms

162

Poets Jerry Martien and Katy Gurin Welcome the New Year with Poetry

163

California's Third Shakiest Earthquake

164

Trespass Cannabis Grows Polluting Surface Water?

165

Old Mills Sites Slated for New Offshore Wind Port

166

How to Make Ethical Decisions in Complicated World

167

Do we have a human right not to die in the Climate Wars?

168

EcoNews Election Wrap Up

169

How Do We Count The Fish?

170

Rewilding California

171

Full Steam Ahead for the Great Redwood Trail!

172

How to Make our Roads Safer: Achieving a Vision of Zero Road Deaths

173

PG&E Spraying, and the Spraying Last Time

174

Which Way the Wind Festival

175

New Research Calls Into Question Carbon Offsets From Northwest California Forests

176

A Love Story About the Klamath Mountains

177

Klamath River Woes but Progress on Dam Removal

178

How Will the IRA Impact Humboldt?

179

Wiyot Tribe Celebrates the Return of Coastal Forest & Wetlands

180

Exploring California’s Coasts with Obi Kaufmann

181

Big Doings on the Beautiful Eel River

182

Healing Humboldt's Wildlife

183

#LandBack is Environmentalism

184

Marbled Murrelets Win in Court

185

Supreme Court’s Climate Decisions are Catastrophic (and Not Just for the Climate)

186

Elections Wrap-Up

187

California’s Climate Plan Misses the Mark?

188

Power Grid Issues Limit Future Wind Development

189

Toxic Tires?

190

Coal Trains Inch Forward with Surface Transportation Board Decision

191

Composting 101

192

The Real McKay! Release of Management Plan Brings Eureka’s Future Community Forest One Step Closer

193

Bear Dogs on the Job!

194

The Beginning of the End for Eel River Dams

195

Microplastic in My Blood?

196

Understanding ‘Urbanism’

197

Bike Back Better! Getting Back on Two Wheels as an Adult

198

What do You Know About Alternative Energy?

199

Housing is an Environmental Issue

200

Our Planet is On Fire, but the Supreme Court Might Throw Away the Extinguisher

201

Build Broadway Better

202

Is California’s Carbon Credit System a Failure?

203

What’s Next for Eel River Dams?

204

Talking TOUGH With the HUFF!

205

Massive Bird Declines Foretell a Silent Spring

206

How Can Nature Teach Us to be Better Humans, With Author Gary Ferguson

207

Year-End Wrap Up (We Ain’t Gonna Miss You, 2021)

208

How is Arcata Planning for Growth? Learn About the Gateway Area!

209

The Future of Humboldt's Nuclear Waste Site

210

Poet Jerry Martien Helps Soothe Your Soul this Solstice

211

Coming Soon — Camping by the Grand Canyon of the Eel River

212

Meet RCCER — Enviros Organize for Political Power

213

Enviros Challenge County Over Cannabis

214

Restoring Blue Lake’s Powers Creek, One of the County’s Most Significant Urban Streams

215

Celebrating the Hoopa Valley Tribe's Victory over the Westland Water District

216

Pomo Perspectives on Forest Protection at the Jackson State Forest

217

Kelp Collapse?

218

Forest Defenders Threatened at Jackson State Forest

219

Redistricting Ruckus

220

Broadway: Dangerous by Design?

221

Eel River Salmon Win Before FERC

222

What Smells at Stinky Beach?

223

Dirty Coal Coming to Town?!

224

Walking in the Footsteps of Roosevelt and Muir

225

An Existential Toolkit for the Climate Generation

226

The Climate Crisis is Here

227

Coastal Cleanup Month

228

To Save an Owl, We Kill an Owl?

229

Charting a Course for Offshore Wind

230

How Can Enviro Voters Increase their Power?

231

Clam Beach Pollution Mystery Solved?

232

A Victory for Summer Steelhead

233

Rep. Jared Huffman on Dams, Wild Places and the State of the North Coast Environment on Capitol Hill

234

Is Your Fish Safe to Eat?

235

The Bundy Bunch Crash the Klamath (and Other News)

236

Enviros Cheer Caltrans? Last Chance Grade Planning Gets High Marks from EcoNews

237

It Sounds Great on Paper: The 30x30 Movement

238

Salmon’s Struggle in the Shasta

239

ECONEWS REPORT: From Pulp Mill to Salmon Farm? Examining Nordic AquaFarms’ Proposed Fish Factory

240

Protecting the ‘Grand Canyon’ of the Eel River

241

May = Bike Month Humboldt

242

How Will Sea Level Rise Affect California?

243

Redwood Creek Still Struggling from 1970s Logging Pollution

244

Lawless Logging on Six Rivers National Forest

245

Friends of the Eel River Force FERC to Comply with the Endangered Species Act

246

Cars, Trains and Automobiles — Transportation Planning in Humboldt County

247

Learn to Be a Good Activist (and Avoid Burnout) with the NEC!

248

The Trinity Alps' Last Glacier

249

Food Waste Fuels Climate Change

250

How will Humboldt Reach 100% Clean, Renewable Energy?

251

What's Next for Wolves on the West Coast?

252

Busting Myths about the Klamath Dam Removal

253

What's Next for Rep. Huffman's Wilderness Bill?

254

Humboldt's First National Landmark

255

What Can the August Complex Tell Us About the Fires of the Future?

256

The Sagebrush Rebellion and the Sacking of the Capitol

257

The Future of Jackson State Forest

258

2020 in Hindsight

259

2020 Humboldt County Environmental Roundup

260

Biden’s First 100 Days

261

Are Toxic Tires Killing Salmon?

262

The Blue-Sky Thinking Episode

263

Let’s Talk About Broadway

264

Election Post-Mortem

265

Is Justice Amy Coney Barrett a Threat to the Environment?

266

New Zealand Mudsnails Invade the Mad River

267

Real Talk about the Green New Deal

268

Local Fire Ecologist Lenya Quinn-Davidson on This Year’s Record Fire Season

269

Obi Kaufmann Paints the Forests of California and Tells Their Stories

270

Blue Lake Rancheria Finds Toxic Algae in the Lower Mad River

271

Interpreting the Parks

272

This Year, Coastal Cleanup Day Lasts all Month

273

Building Cities for People, not Cars

274

Dog Ranch Dunes Saved from Development

275

How to Become a Community Scientist with iNaturalist

276

News Round-up: Billboards, Birdwatching, and the Trump Administration’s Attack on Federal Environmental Laws

277

What Will the Next Plan for the Northwest’s Forests Look Like?

278

A State of the Klamath Update: A Spirited Discussion on What That Big Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Decision Means

279

A Proposed New Central Valley Dam Could Have Big Impacts on the Trinity River

280

Interview with a Forest Defender

281

The State of the Klamath River

282

The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of Abalone with Author Ann Vileisis

283

Why Spring- and Summer-Run Salmonids are So Damn Interesting and Weird

284

Kristen Lark of the Six River National Forest’s Mad River Ranger District

285

Removing the Eel River's Scott Dam

286

Humboldt Naturalist John Griffith

287

Dams, Billboards, Wildfire Smoke, and Humboldt Fishers

288

An Existential Toolkit for the Climate Generation

289

Welcome to the Wonderful New World of Electric Bicycles!

290

Backyard Birding for the Bored!

291

Humboldt’s Climate Action Plan, With County Planner Connor McGuigan

292

21st Century Victory Gardens

293

Congressman Jared Huffman on the Federal COVID-19 Response

294

Let’s Talk About Transportation Emissions

295

How Can We Be Happy, Healthy, Effective Activists and People?

296

The Wildlands Conservancy Protects Valuable California Ecology by Buying it Up

297

Local Hugo-Award Winning Author Becky Chambers Talks About Her Worlds and This One

298

Dead Billboards, the Great Redwood Trail and More!

299

Monte Merrick, Wildlife Rescuer, Tells Us About His Work and Offers Some Tips

300

Lessons From Terra-Gen, a Failed Wind Energy Project

301

How Can We Make the Outdoors an Inclusive Space?

302

What Does ‘Urbanism’ Mean in a Place Like Humboldt County?

303

How Does Our Electric Grid Actually Work?

304

Are Humboldt Bay King Tides a Harbinger of Sea Level Rise?

305

Removing the Eel River Dams

306

Poet Jerry Martien Helps Soothe Your Soul this Solstice

307

Zero Waste Humboldt and what it really means to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

308

Wiyot Tribal Representatives Talk About Their Objections to the Terra-Gen Wind Project

309

Here Comes the Electric Vehicle Parade!

310

‘We Cannot Move Fast Enough on This’

311

Is Your Pot Killing Northern Spotted Owls?

312

Living Through a Firestorm, with Jon Humboldt Gates

313

Where’s the Mercury in Humboldt Bay Coming From?

314

Massive Bird Declines Foretell a Silent Spring

315

The Klamath River is a Person, My Friend

316

Trump’s Cartoon Supervillains and Their Surprising Ally in Gov. Gavin Newsom

317

Let’s Not Deify People, Even If They’re Awesome Activists Like Greta Thunberg

318

What Can Tsunamis Teach Us About Combating Climate Change?

319

It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And We’re SO DEPRESSED)

320

They’re Back! Your Loveable Environmental Curmudgeons Have a New Show