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There is still hope that Humboldt County’s elected leaders will pass rules strong enough to protect our watersheds and fish. But we must not be naïve. There are enormous amounts of money at stake. And the pro-developer, anti-regulation interests who helped elect the majority of Humboldt’s current Board of Supervisors, and indeed now hold many of the seats on its Planning Commission, have distinguished themselves by their overt hostility to environmental regulation in any form.