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(VIDEO) Orion Cosce Loses First Official UFC Bout By Second-Round Knockout

John Ross Ferrara / Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021 @ 9:45 a.m. / LoCO Sports!

Highlights from Cosce’s fight.

Humboldt native Orion Cosce lost his first official UFC bout yesterday by way of a second-round knockout against underdog Philip Rowe during the prelims of UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas.

Despite an impressive first round by Cosce, Rowe was able to shake him with a flurry of second-round punches and delivered a knockout punch with 40 seconds left in the round.

“Keeping my head up high,” Cosce shared on social media following the fight. “Fought a great first round. Second round I felt my arm going numb a bit but kept fighting through. Hats off to [Philip Rowe] and his team for overcoming his adversity and finding a way to get the W.”

Cosce’s brother Louis Cosce also lost his UFC debut last year by way of a third-round technical knockout. Both brothers from Weitchpec now hold professional records of 7-1.

“I still remember every strike that lead to the finish and the feeling of my first ever MMA loss,” Orion Cosce said. “I’ll grow from this and continue to train and overcome this moment just like Goku did. Thank you all for the love and support. Looking to get in there again in a couple of months.”

The hands are flying in RD 2! 👊 #UFCVegas33 pic.twitter.com/HTyPlMTqag
— UFC (@ufc) July 31, 2021

(AUDIO) HUMBOLDT HOLDING UP: Arcata Councilmember Emily Goldstein on Falling in Love With Her City and Helping Guide It Through Pandemic

LoCO Staff / Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021 @ 8 a.m. / Humboldt Holding Up

(AUDIO) Emily Goldstein is Holding Up

Councilmember Goldstein (or just “Emily”)

Let’s talk Arcata! On this week’s episode of Humboldt Holding Up — LoCO’s lo-fi, “why not?” podcast — we speak with Emily Goldstein, who was elected to the Arcata City Council at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and is one of the city’s four new councilmembers sworn in since December. Topics include:

Why Goldstein sees approving and building more housing as a top priority for Arcata
Our region’s ongoing mental health crisis
Campaigning in the middle of a global pandemic
Recent anti-LGBTQ incidents in the city and the community’s response
Her day job as a health policy coordinator
How a warm interaction on her first day in Arcata kicked off her love for the city
More!

Click the player above or — an even better option, if you ask us — head on over to Apple Podcasts to hear Goldstein’s chat with LoCO’s Stephanie McGeary and Andrew Goff. And be sure to check out previous episodes below.

Listen Local! Subscribe to Humboldt Holding Up on iTunes!

GROWING UP UNGRACEFULLY: The Humbook

Barry Evans / Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021 @ 7 a.m. / Growing Old Ungracefully

Spoiler alert! Shameless self-promotion follows.

All photos: Barry Evans.

Twenty years ago, when Louisa and I first “discovered” Humboldt County, I was a babe-in-arms. I knew nothing about our new home, not even how it got its name. Fortunately we have here a wealth of historical sources: the County Library with its Humboldt Room; the Humboldt Historical Society; the Timber Historical Society; the Clarke and the Maritime museums; UBC’s photo library…not to mention our local historians, biologists, geologists and the like, all of whom have been so willing to share their knowledge.

Now I can pontificate at length on:

Construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad — why it was routed down the Eel, what happened to the Dyerville bridge following the 1964 “Christmas Flood,” and its final demise, leaving five (now four) locomotives stranded on the balloon track;

How our county got its name, and why the name “Eureka” is featured on the Great Seal of the State of California;

How the Mad River got its name — and why the Mad River Slough is wrongly named;

McKinleyville’s connection with the nation’s most expensive lighthouse;

How Japan launched its Pacific submarine campaign less than two weeks after Pearl Harbor with an attack on a tanker just off our coastline — and where half the ship ended up;

How a species of redwood thought to be extinct was discovered in China — one specimen of which now thrives outside Eureka City Hall.

Not to mention: the Loleta tunnel, whales in the Klamath, shipwrecks (Milwaukee, Emidio, Donbass), local labyrinths, cormorants and egrets, lighthouses (Punta Gorda, Cape Mendocino, Trinidad Head), and the best hike in Humboldt Redwoods. If any of this tweaks your fancy, you’re in the market for my latest book: some 70 Humboldt-themed stories titled (wait for it) The Humbook. It’s at Eureka Books and Booklegger, or get it directly from me (barryevans9@yahoo.com).

Or — finally, here’s the serious plug! — come to my book signing at Eureka Books during Arts Alive on August 7. Please. There’s nothing worse than sitting behind a table in a bookstore while everyone walks by pretending not to see you. I speak from experience.

ECONEWS REPORT: To Save an Owl, We Kill an Owl?

The EcoNews Report / Saturday, July 31, 2021 @ 10 a.m. / Energy

The dread barred owl. Photo: Peter K Burian, via Wikimedia. Creative Commons license.

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The barred owl, not native to California, is quickly becoming established in the state, having flown down the West Coast. The barred owl’s presence is bad news for its cousin, the northern spotted owl, the iconic species of the Timber Wars. The barred owl outcompetes the northern spotted owl and quickly takes over its territory.

With the northern spotted owl on the road to extinction, now is the time for desperate measures. To save the northern spotted owl, researchers have tested whether killing barred owls makes a difference. The grim but good news: when barred owls are removed, population declines of the northern spotted owl stabilize.

Owl researcher Dave Wiens joins Gang Green to discuss the results of his recent research.

AUDIO:

“The EcoNews Report,” July 31, 2021.

REQUIRED READING:

”Invader removal triggers competitive release in a threatened avian predator,” David Wiens et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Aug. 3, 2021.

OBITUARY: Jens Stefan Reinhart, 1978-2021

LoCO Staff / Saturday, July 31, 2021 @ 6:56 a.m. / Obits

Jens Stefan Reinhart
Oct 20,1978 - July 16, 2021

Jens (pronounced Yence) was a kind and caring soul who did not branch out in the social world, but for those of us who knew him, were always greeted with a genuinely warm “hallo.”

Jens grew up in Germany, born to Ekkehard and Leonore, and while he enjoyed his small town in Germany, his grasp of computers took him to England, where he lived until he emigrated to Humboldt to be with his wife in 2011. Jens and Emily (surviving wife) met each other online through a mutual art forum, complimenting and critiquing each other’s works.

While Jens greatly supported his wife’s traditional art, his art focused on digital creations of space and nebulae, often including rendered and textured sci-fi ships and alternate perspectives from favorite sci-fi scenes. His beautiful creations of space and exploration can be seen on his DeviantArt account: www.deviantart.com/overseer

Jens was one of our fellow nerds, working in IT since his late teens; he was always looked to for answers, well before someone turned to the Internet. Jens had a unique sense of humour, one that only a fellow computer nerd could appreciate, and will be truly missed. Though time is not linear in our minds, the art, sci-fi, and IT worlds have lost an irreplaceable gem.

Jens, “I have been… and always shall be… your friend.”

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The obituary above was submitted on behalf of Jens Reinhart’s loved ones. The Lost Coast Outpost runs obituaries of Humboldt County residents at no charge. See guidelines here.

‘The Sun Set Twice on the People That Day’: Mural by Native Artists Brian Tripp and Alme Allen to Be Restored at Its New Home Outside the Clarke Museum

Stephanie McGeary / Friday, July 30, 2021 @ 4:08 p.m. / Art , Tribes

“The Sun Set Twice on the People That Day” mural by Brian Tripp and Alme Allen while it was on display at the Eureka Theatre | Image from Humboldt Insider, courtesy of the Clarke Museum

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More than 20 years after local artists Brian Tripp and Alme Allen painted Eureka’s first Native mural, entitled “The Sun Set Twice on the People That Day,” the piece is moving to a new home for display on the side of the Clarke Museum and will be restored during the upcoming Eureka Street Art Festival.

The mural takes its name from a line in a poem written by Tripp about the 1860 massacre of Wiyot people on their sacred island, Tuluwat.

An excerpt from Tripp’s poem:

Out on an island in the middle of the bay
The sun set twice on the people that day
The world they were making
Someone else was taking
Saying ‘Eureka, I found it’
Claiming it’s mine to own

Out on the island in the middle of the bay
Surrounded by greed
That had come and planted its seed
The sun set twice on the people that day

Tripp and Allen painted the large mural — which is about 40 feet long by about 12 feet high at its tallest part — in the summer of 2000 for display on the side of the Eureka Theatre building. The mural was painted on wooden boards and was taken down in 2019 for restorations to the theater.

Drawing inspiration from Tripp’s poem, the mural depicts Tuluwat, with the image in the center representing the island, Allen told the Outpost in a recent phone interview. The symbol is also in the shape of an obsidian blade — a traditional tool used as part of the tribes’ world renewal ceremonies.

“It’s all about balance and renewal,” Allen said. “Basically the mural is paying homage to the original occupants, the original people of Humboldt Bay — the Wiyot.”

Though the mural is primarily focused on Wiyot people, he said, it also pays respects to the other tribes of the area. Each one of the redwood trees in the mural represents one of the other local tribes, he said, and the image on the left side of a basket in the water carrying three figures represents the struggles of tribes.

“That’s us as a people making it through turbulent waters,” he said. “That’s the experience of Native people today.”

Allen in front of his contribution to the “Native Mural Project” during the 2020 Eureka Street Art Festival | File photo: Andrew Goff

Allen, born and raised in Orleans, is of both Karuk and Yurok descent and has contributed many pieces of art to the Humboldt County scenery, including a large mural on the side of the Discovery Shop in Henderson Center, which he painted as a part of last year’s Eureka Street Art Festival and concrete cast replicas of traditional wood stools that were used by local tribes, which can be found at HSU’s Native Forum, Potowat Community Gardens and along the Eureka Waterfront Trail.

Of course, Tripp is well known by many community members as a respected Karuk poet, artist, educator and a ceremonial singer and dancer. Tripp is also known for playing a role in the revival of traditional Native ceremonies and is a recipient of the California Living Heritage award.

Tripp’s work and influence can be seen all around Humboldt and is very recognizable for its bold lines, bright colors and use of traditional Karuk imagery.

“I’m definitely a student of that,” Allen said of his friend and mentor Tripp’s style. “I enjoy the way Brian’s work always balances in some way.”

Tripp is currently in Hospice care and will not be helping Allen to restore the mural, but Allen did say he is hoping Tripp will be able to come out and be present for some of the process. Allen will have help from a crew of other Native artists, including Julian Lang, Lyn Risling, Ahtyirahm Allen, Karamachay Tripp, and Eli Hensher-Aubrey — many of whom are Tripp’s contemporaries. Also helping Allen with the restoration is Danielle Briscoe, who was connected with Allen through a new Mural Apprentice Program, hosted by the Eureka Street Art Festival and supported by Humboldt Area Foundation.

The restoration will take place on August 7 through 14, during the Eureka Street Art Festival and Allen said he is very excited for the mural’s new home at the Clarke, which is a little closer to the bay and Tuluwat than the mural’s previous location. He is also so happy to have a chance to work with his community to restore the piece, to celebrate the Native people of the area and to honor the work of his friend and mentor, Tripp.

“I’m really happy we’re doing this project starting next week,” Allen said. “I think this is coming at a really beautiful time, when Brian still can be there.”

FIRE WATCH: Red Flag Warning in Effect for Northeastern Humboldt, Trinity

Hank Sims / Friday, July 30, 2021 @ 1:05 p.m. / How ‘Bout That Weather

Graphic: National Weather Service.

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It’s crisp and sunny and beautiful here on the coast, on this last workday of July, but the clouds are gathering out east.

This morning, the National Weather Service’s Eureka office issued a Red Flag Warning for a swath of interior Northern California — including the Orleans area and much of Trinity County — due to expected thunderstorms this afternoon.

This, combined with the fact that the weather system isn’t expected to generate much precipitation, combined with our extended and very severe drought, is very bad. If lightning strikes our tinderbox hillsides in the wrong way, we could be looking at dangerous fire conditions.

Humboldt has been pretty lucky so far in this, potentially the worst of all fire years. But a couple of days ago a lightning storm sparked what they’re now calling the McFarland Fire near the community of Wildwood, on the downhill side of Highway 36, and the Trinity County Sheriff’s Office has issued evacuation warnings.

From the National Weather Service:

Monsoon moisture combined with hot temperatures will aid in scattered thunderstorm development across the interior mountains this afternoon and evening. Storms will produce very little precipitation, which will increase the threat for fire starts due to lightning across portions of Trinity, northeast Humboldt, and eastern Del Norte Counties.
RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING…
AFFECTED AREA…Fire weather zone 204 and 283.
THUNDERSTORMS…Scattered thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and evening.
WINDS…Erratic thunderstorm winds gusting to 50 mph will be possible. *
IMPACTS…Frequent lightning in the vicinity of critically dry fuels may result in new fire starts. Rapid spread of fire possible depending on terrain and local wind conditions. Thunderstorm outflow winds may result in erratic fire spread. Despite some rainfall with storms, initial attack resources could be overwhelmed and holdover fires are possible.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS… A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of the above conditions can contribute to extreme fire behavior.

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