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EcoNews Report — 312 episodes

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Bring Back Our Grizzlies!

2

What's Wrong with the Forest Service?

3

New Threat to Eel River Dam Removal?

4

How Can We Restore the Elk River?

5

A New Mandate for State-Owned Forests?

6

The "God Squad" Returns!

7

The Fight over Richardson Grove, Explain

8

Fix Your Stuff (And Save the Planet)

9

Transmission Upgrades for Offshore Wind

10

Asm. Rogers on this Legislative Session

11

Trump Spikes Climate Regulations

12

Wildlife Crossings Help Wildlife and Motorists

13

Fix Fourth and Fifth Streets in Eureka!

14

Climate Action Theatre

15

Dealing with Eco-Anxiety

16

Poems for a New Year

17

The Temperate Rainforests of North America

18

Local Governments to Finally Take Action on Climate Change?

19

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

20

What’s So Special About the Siskiyou Crest?

21

Tell FERC That Eel River Dams Gotta Go!

22

The Water Remembers with Amy Bowers Cordalis

23

Northern Humboldt Indians

24

The Week Without Driving in the Rearview Mirror

25

Assemblymember Connolly Reflects on the Legislative Session

26

Are Your Easter Lilies Poisoning the Smith River?

27

Rethinking High-Severity Fires?

28

You Should Attend the Eel River Community Meeting

29

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

30

New Crosswalk, Who Dis?

31

Talking CEQA Reforms

32

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

33

The Next Big Step Toward Eel River Dam Removal

34

A Geological Perspective on Last Week’s Quake

35

A New 353-Acre Reserve on Baduwa’t

36

Batteries and Achieving 100 Percent Renewable Energy

37

When Driving is Not An Option

38

Potholes in the Forest Service Roadless Rule

39

Come Celebrate the Bay Trail!

40

Stopping the Spread of Golden Mussels

41

The Supreme Court and the National Environmental Policy Act

42

Is Offshore Wind Still on Humboldt's Horizon?

43

Pope Francis’ Environmental Legacy

44

Earthquake-Driven Subsidence Around Humboldt Bay

45

New Timber Harvest Plan for Jackson State Forest

46

Reviewing Trump's First 100-ish Days

47

How Much of Measure O Should Go to Public Transit?

48

Coastal Commission Under Attack

49

Celebrating Klamath Dam Removal Through Art

50

What is "Renewable Diesel?"

51

Can Offshore Wind Retire Gas Plants?

52

Trump has gutted NEPA. What does that mean?

53

Where does my power come from?

54

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

55

A Deal for the Eel?

56

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

57

Dissecting Trump's First Week

58

International Climate Action in a Trump Era

59

President Carter's Environmental Legacy

60

Green Burial: Thinking Outside the Coffin

61

Poet Jerry Martien Helps Soothe Your Soul

62

The Continuing Problem of Black Market Cannabis Trespass Grows

63

What Gives You Hope?

64

A Geological Perspective on Last Week’s Quake

65

Can We Clean Up Humboldt Bay Before the Sea Rises?

66

Solar is Coming to Hydesville!

67

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

68

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

69

Proposed Wood Pellet Biofuel Project Draws Criticism

70

Is Humboldt a "Climate Refuge?"

71

Conversation with Congressman Jared Huffman

72

A Week Without Driving

73

Wolves are Returning to California

74

How Will Groundwater be Regulated After This Significant Court Ruling?

75

Draft Climate Act Plan Released

76

What If Measure F Passes?

77

EcoNews: Letting Go of Your Eco-Grief

78

How to Think About Fire (From a Fire Expert)

79

Clean Water on the Ballot

80

Northwest Forest Plan at 30

81

The Gang Goes to Norway

82

Top 10 Questions About Offshore Wind

83

Chevron Overturned: What It Means for Our Environment

84

"Project 2025" and the Environment

85

Controversial Biomass Proposal's Tie to Humboldt County

86

Rising Seas and the Future of Humboldt Bay

87

Wiyot Tribe and BLM Partner for Stewardship of Headwaters

88

Opportunities and Challenges for the Great Redwood Trail

89

Offshore Wind Developers on Exploring the Ocean Floor

90

Remembering Petey Brucker

91

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

92

Protecting In-Stream Flows in the Mad River

93

Toxic Soup in the Smith River

94

Coping with Climate Anxiety

95

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

96

Can We Clean Up Humboldt Bay Before the Sea Rises?

97

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

98

Dam Removal is Sometimes Messy (But Worth It)

99

Hydrogen Buses Coming to Humboldt

100

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

101

Delving Deeper into Port Electrification

102

Greening the Grid

103

Declining Access to Public Spaces

104

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

105

Supply Skepticism: Can Building More Housing Reduce Costs?

106

Coho Salmon in Downtown Arcata?

107

Poetry for a New Year

108

California's Third Shakiest Earthquake

109

Barred Owls Impact More than Spotted Owls

110

The Bird Buzz with Ken Burton

111

Meet the Energy Superstar at the Hoopa Valley Public Utilities District

112

California's Coast vs. Sea Level Rise

113

What Has Sacramento Done for Us Lately?

114

Rep. Huffman Talks Legislative Priorities

115

How much do you know about Humboldt Bay Oysters?

116

HumCo Climate Action Plan Careening Towards Cliff?

117

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

118

Looking Back on a Week Without Driving

119

The Latest on the Seismically Unsafe Scott Dam

120

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

121

EcoNews: Celebrate Latino Heritage Month with Latino Outdoors

122

Coastal Cleanup Month is Here!

123

An Ode to the Humble (and Humboldt) Oyster

124

Kids Beat Montana to Uphold Right to a Healthy Environment

125

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

126

Are Environmental Laws in the Way?

127

What's a Walkable Community?

128

NIMBY Initiative on the Ballot?

129

What's In Store for Offshore Port Development?

130

Celebrate Plastic Free July!

131

Increasing Water Levels in the South Fork Eel River

132

Exploring Sea Otter Reintroduction

133

What’s That Fence In the River?

134

Confused by the Cones on Broadway?

135

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

136

Community Benefits from Offshore Wind?

137

Protecting 30% of California by 2030

138

To Save an Owl, We Kill an Owl?

139

How to Run a Rural Transit Agency

140

New Fish, Who Dis?

141

When Enviros are Pro-Development

142

Suing the Feds for Klamath Water

143

Bird Nerds Rejoice: Godwit Days are Here Again!

144

PG&E Finally Taking Dam Safety Seriously

145

Tsunamis, Sneaker Waves, and Climate Change

146

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

147

Tribal Marine Stewards Network

148

Save Money While Saving the Planet

149

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

150

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

151

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

152

The Central Valley Project and its North Coast Connections

153

Climate Change Supercharging Winter Storms

154

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

155

California's Third Shakiest Earthquake

156

Trespass Cannabis Grows Polluting Surface Water?

157

Old Mills Sites Slated for New Offshore Wind Port

158

How to Make Ethical Decisions in Complicated World

159

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

160

EcoNews Election Wrap Up

161

How Do We Count The Fish?

162

Rewilding California

163

Full Steam Ahead for the Great Redwood Trail!

164

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

165

PG&E Spraying, and the Spraying Last Time

166

Which Way the Wind Festival

167

New Research Calls Into Question Carbon Offsets From Northwest California Forests

168

A Love Story About the Klamath Mountains

169

Klamath River Woes but Progress on Dam Removal

170

How Will the IRA Impact Humboldt?

171

Wiyot Tribe Celebrates the Return of Coastal Forest & Wetlands

172

Exploring California’s Coasts with Obi Kaufmann

173

Big Doings on the Beautiful Eel River

174

Healing Humboldt's Wildlife

175

#LandBack is Environmentalism

176

Marbled Murrelets Win in Court

177

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

178

Elections Wrap-Up

179

California’s Climate Plan Misses the Mark?

180

Power Grid Issues Limit Future Wind Development

181

Toxic Tires?

182

Coal Trains Inch Forward with Surface Transportation Board Decision

183

Composting 101

184

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

185

Bear Dogs on the Job!

186

The Beginning of the End for Eel River Dams

187

Microplastic in My Blood?

188

Understanding ‘Urbanism’

189

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

190

What do You Know About Alternative Energy?

191

Housing is an Environmental Issue

192

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

193

Build Broadway Better

194

Is California’s Carbon Credit System a Failure?

195

What’s Next for Eel River Dams?

196

Talking TOUGH With the HUFF!

197

Massive Bird Declines Foretell a Silent Spring

198

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

199

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

200

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

201

The Future of Humboldt's Nuclear Waste Site

202

Poet Jerry Martien Helps Soothe Your Soul this Solstice

203

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

204

Meet RCCER — Enviros Organize for Political Power

205

Enviros Challenge County Over Cannabis

206

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

207

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

208

Pomo Perspectives on Forest Protection at the Jackson State Forest

209

Kelp Collapse?

210

Forest Defenders Threatened at Jackson State Forest

211

Redistricting Ruckus

212

Broadway: Dangerous by Design?

213

Eel River Salmon Win Before FERC

214

What Smells at Stinky Beach?

215

Dirty Coal Coming to Town?!

216

Walking in the Footsteps of Roosevelt and Muir

217

An Existential Toolkit for the Climate Generation

218

The Climate Crisis is Here

219

Coastal Cleanup Month

220

To Save an Owl, We Kill an Owl?

221

Charting a Course for Offshore Wind

222

How Can Enviro Voters Increase their Power?

223

Clam Beach Pollution Mystery Solved?

224

A Victory for Summer Steelhead

225

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

226

Is Your Fish Safe to Eat?

227

The Bundy Bunch Crash the Klamath (and Other News)

228

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

229

It Sounds Great on Paper: The 30x30 Movement

230

Salmon’s Struggle in the Shasta

231

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

232

Protecting the ‘Grand Canyon’ of the Eel River

233

May = Bike Month Humboldt

234

How Will Sea Level Rise Affect California?

235

Redwood Creek Still Struggling from 1970s Logging Pollution

236

Lawless Logging on Six Rivers National Forest

237

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

238

Cars, Trains and Automobiles — Transportation Planning in Humboldt County

239

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

240

The Trinity Alps' Last Glacier

241

Food Waste Fuels Climate Change

242

How will Humboldt Reach 100% Clean, Renewable Energy?

243

What's Next for Wolves on the West Coast?

244

Busting Myths about the Klamath Dam Removal

245

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

246

Humboldt's First National Landmark

247

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

248

The Sagebrush Rebellion and the Sacking of the Capitol

249

The Future of Jackson State Forest

250

2020 in Hindsight

251

2020 Humboldt County Environmental Roundup

252

Biden’s First 100 Days

253

Are Toxic Tires Killing Salmon?

254

The Blue-Sky Thinking Episode

255

Let’s Talk About Broadway

256

Election Post-Mortem

257

Is Justice Amy Coney Barrett a Threat to the Environment?

258

New Zealand Mudsnails Invade the Mad River

259

Real Talk about the Green New Deal

260

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

261

Obi Kaufmann Paints the Forests of California and Tells Their Stories

262

Blue Lake Rancheria Finds Toxic Algae in the Lower Mad River

263

Interpreting the Parks

264

This Year, Coastal Cleanup Day Lasts all Month

265

Building Cities for People, not Cars

266

Dog Ranch Dunes Saved from Development

267

How to Become a Community Scientist with iNaturalist

268

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

269

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

270

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

271

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

272

Interview with a Forest Defender

273

The State of the Klamath River

274

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

275

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

276

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

277

Removing the Eel River's Scott Dam

278

Humboldt Naturalist John Griffith

279

Dams, Billboards, Wildfire Smoke, and Humboldt Fishers

280

An Existential Toolkit for the Climate Generation

281

Welcome to the Wonderful New World of Electric Bicycles!

282

Backyard Birding for the Bored!

283

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

284

21st Century Victory Gardens

285

Congressman Jared Huffman on the Federal COVID-19 Response

286

Let’s Talk About Transportation Emissions

287

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

288

The Wildlands Conservancy Protects Valuable California Ecology by Buying it Up

289

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

290

Dead Billboards, the Great Redwood Trail and More!

291

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

292

Lessons From Terra-Gen, a Failed Wind Energy Project

293

How Can We Make the Outdoors an Inclusive Space?

294

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

295

How Does Our Electric Grid Actually Work?

296

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

297

Removing the Eel River Dams

298

Poet Jerry Martien Helps Soothe Your Soul this Solstice

299

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

300

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

301

Here Comes the Electric Vehicle Parade!

302

‘We Cannot Move Fast Enough on This’

303

Is Your Pot Killing Northern Spotted Owls?

304

Living Through a Firestorm, with Jon Humboldt Gates

305

Where’s the Mercury in Humboldt Bay Coming From?

306

Massive Bird Declines Foretell a Silent Spring

307

The Klamath River is a Person, My Friend

308

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

309

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

310

What Can Tsunamis Teach Us About Combating Climate Change?

311

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

312

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