Marvin Mullen passed away on July 15, 2025, at the age of 76. He was born in Bremerton Junction, Washington on February 16, 1949, to Lee and Vi Mullen.

In the early 1960s the Mullen family moved from Washington to Orleans, to open up a huckleberry brush processing plant at the old Brizard Store. Soon after moving to Orleans, they were welcomed by the great ‘64 flood. At that time Marvin, attending Hoopa High School, was told to stay put as the roads to Orleans were too dangerous. Those who know him, know he didn’t listen. He worked his way back home crossing a log wedged over Bluff Creek channel that had created a new path directly to the Klamath River. Just at the end of high school, he met and had a 12- year marriage with Kathi Allen. During that time, they had their son, Richard (Richie) Mullen. Later in life, Marvin welcomed his second son, Jay Mullen.

Marvin absolutely loved the outdoors. He was raised to hunt, fish and to survive in the mountains. He took great joy in sharing this passion with his son Richie and grandsons Dan and Gavin. They had a standing tradition to meet up at Marvin’s place for their annual hunting trips. He guided bear hunts in Washington and California with his late friend Bernie Paque. He had bears that got on top of him and some that he got on top of. It has been said Marvin could catch a fish in the desert and harvest deer in the ocean. No matter where he went, he was successful outdoors. From catching a record Northern Pike in Colorado, an albino black tail deer in California, to a large, big horn sheep on the big island of Hawaii, he seemed to know just where to be.

His athleticism and endurance served him with many mountain hikes. He loved to hike into Red Cap Lake with friends and family. He tended to push the envelope in most things he did. One major hike was over the Trinity Alps from the northern side over to Junction City with one of his closest friends, Mike Neff.

His occupation consisted mostly of the timber industry, working for Arcata Redwood, Bracut Lumber and many years logging where his specialty was running a yarder. Later in his life he spent 3 years catching king crab in the Bering Sea.

Everywhere he went, he met people that presented adventures that he was open to trying. He was truly a man of adventures. While on a break in Alaska, he met and helped a person deliver fuel by flying in an old bomber plane to remote villages. On a stop in Portland from Alaska he accepted an invitation from a friend to go to Costa Rica. While in Costa Rica he met up and joined with a group of people from Europe to help study the Leather Back turtles along the coast.

He was also a fixture at the hydroplane boat races; he was always there to help his good friend, Roger Sanderson. He enjoyed this event so much that he gave it a shot himself, racing for a few years under the name of “2-Hy.”

Throughout his lifetime of adventures, he had acquired many friends that he could pick up the phone and call at any time. There is one special friend, Jim Osier, that has been by his side since they were in high school. Together they had seen it all, stood by each other through tough times and survived many amazing adventures together.

Marvin had a big personality. He was a rugged and adventurous mountain man, an intense hunter who was willing to try anything and compassionate in making time to help others in getting firewood, deer meat, bear fat for elders and offering up anything he had to help out.

In 2013, Marvin met his life partner, Terri Jones. The two of them made their home and life together in Orleans. They enjoyed countless nights sitting on their porch, overlooking the Klamath River, spotting bear, beaver, deer, and numerous other types of wildlife. They enjoyed gardening, taking walks and being companions together. Socializing with friends that dropped in to visit them was a daily way of life. As Marvin battled medical issues over the last 3 years, she was by his side doing whatever it took to keep him healthy.

He cherished hunting with his grandchildren Dan and Gavin. Fishing at Fish Lake with Zane and Taya.

He wasn’t a wealthy man in a monetary manner, but he was a wealthy man when it came to living life how he wanted to.

He is survived by his brothers Kevin Mullen (Bobbi Mullen), Mike Mullen, Dick Warden, his children Richard Mullen (Lacey Mullen) and Jay Mullen (Chelsea Mullen), Amanda Flesher (Justin Chapman), Randy Flesher, Jeremiah Jones (Jessie Jones), Brittany Jones, grandchildren Andrea Keating (Bryan Lee), Dan Keating (Zoe Keating). Gavin Keating (Ashley Keating), Zayden Valadao-Mullen, Mataya Valadao-Mullen, Marnie Beck, Perci Mullen, Nemesis Mullen, Christopher Ridenour Jr, Cody Chapman, Savannah Chapman, Joshua Jones, Danielle Jones and great grandchildren Owen Keating-Lee, Nash Keating and Teagan Keating.

Marvin is preceded in death by his father and mother (Lee and Vi), brothers Terry Mullen and Bill Beck.

In line with Marvin’s hunting manners, there will be an “Open Season” tribute on Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 2 p.m. at the Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources building in Orleans.

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Here’s one key takeaway from today’s hearing in the case of The People of the State of California v. St. Joseph Health Northern California, LLC: This is going to take awhile.

In fact, toward the end of today’s hearing, the parties discussed setting a trial start date for more than a year from now — in early September 2026 — but one of the defendant’s attorneys said it’s still premature to take that step.

Perhaps such lengthy proceedings are to be expected in a case that pits the First Amendment rights of a Catholic-run health care organization against California’s Emergency Services Law (ESL) when it comes to abortion care. 

The AG’s case argues that Providence Health & Services (the Catholic not-for-profit that owns and operates Eureka’s St. Joseph Hospital) violated multiple California laws through its refusal to provide emergency abortion care to people experiencing obstetric emergencies. The lawsuit focuses in part on the case of Eureka chiropractor Anna Nusslock, who was allegedly denied a medically necessary abortion at St. Joseph Hospital despite an immediate threat to her life and health, and despite the fact her pregnancy was no longer viable.

The specific result of today’s hearing is this: Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office must now seek a preliminary injunction at an evidentiary hearing, where both sides will be allowed to present arguments. The injunction, if granted, would force St. Joseph Health to comply with the ESL. The AG’s Office says such a legal order is necessary to ensure that patients in Humboldt County have access to life-saving health services including emergency abortion care.

The AG’s Office began pursuing such an injunction shortly after it first filed this lawsuit 11 months ago. But last October, the two parties voluntarily entered into a stipulated agreement through which Providence St. Joseph promised to follow the ESL as the case proceeds. Once that agreement was signed, the AG’s Office dropped its pursuit of a preliminary injunction, reasoning that Providence had agreed to comply with the terms it was pursuing.

But then, after consulting with Bishop Robert F. Vasa of the Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa, Providence seemingly had a change of heart — or a change in legal position, at least. In June it filed a motion seeking to modify or set aside the stipulation on the grounds that it violates the tenets of the organization’s faith, specifically the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERD), a set of rules governing health care practices within Catholic health care institutions. 

Bonta characterized this move as an effort to back out of a binding contract, saying publicly that Providence was “attempting to find wiggle room to shirk its duty to patients under the law.”

Judge Canning

Today’s hearing before Humboldt County Superior Court Judge Timothy Canning concerned two opposing motions: the State’s motion to enforce the stipulation and Providence/St. Joseph Health’s motion to modify it or “set it aside.”

Canning wound up granting neither motion. Instead, he ordered St. Joseph Health to abide by the terms of the stipulation while the State proceeds with its attempt to secure a preliminary injunction. A case management hearing was scheduled for Oct. 27 at 8:30 a.m.

In the meantime, today’s hearing provided a glimpse into the major legal and ethical arguments in play in this court battle.

Deputy Attorney General Martine D’Agostino opened by saying, “The issue before the court today is straightforward: enforcement of an unambiguous contract.”

She argued that St. Joseph Health was asking the court to endorse “a novel rule of contract interpretation [whereby] a party can back out of an unambiguous contract at any time, simply by arguing that it violates their religious principles.”

At one point, Judge Canning asked D’Agostino whether, in the State’s view, the stipulation has a set timeline or expiration date. She replied, “No, Your Honor. The stipulation has no time limit.”

“So, is it the Attorney General’s position that this would apply even after the trial?” Canning asked.

“Yes, that’s our position,” D’Agostino replied.

She was joined at the prosecution table by Deputy Attorney General David Houska, who said the State’s case is not based on the fact that St. Joseph Health is a Catholic organization but rather on the basis that the hospital was denying abortion care when it is legally required to provide it.

He referenced a letter submitted to the court by Bishop Vasa saying that, in his view as a Catholic faith leder, abortion is only permissible when — and here Houska quoted from the letter — “‘The only alternative is the certain death of both the mother and the child.’”

Houska argued that this position conflicts with the ESL. 

“Prohibiting intervention until death was certain would be waiting until a patient is in septic shock, cardiac arrest or otherwise in extremis,” he said. Many such patients would die, he continued, adding, “Those who survive would likely be left with lifelong, serious ailments. This is neither the standard of care nor the law.”

D’Agostino then said the State’s purpose in court today was to ensure that the women of Humboldt County don’t needlessly face potentially irreparable harm by being forced to wait “until they are sufficiently near death for St. Joseph to finally render life-saving aid. The law forbids it,” she said. “And, Your Honor, a deal’s a deal. Do not let St. Joseph betray the trust of the women of Humboldt County again.”

Providence St. Joseph was represented in court today by attorneys Harvey Rochman and Barry Landsberg, with the former handling today’s oral arguments. He assured the Court that his client will abide by the stipulation as the case proceeds but said there really should be a full evidentiary hearing before the court grants a preliminary injunction.

Rochman went on to argue that there are larger issues at stake.

“[W]e are faced with motions by the Attorney General which seek to have this court order the hospital to perform abortions that … are contrary to the Catholic rules,” he said. “That is, of course, a major issue. … It’s a freedom of religion issue.”

Rochman cited a 2016 agreement between Providence and then-Attorney General Kamala Harris, saying the state agreed at the time to allow the organization to apply the Ethical and Religious Directives on a case-by-case basis, with Providence hospital policies ultimately determined by “multi-disciplinary local ministry ethics teams.”

Ethical decisions that cocnern when it’s acceptable to terminate a pregnancy can’t be left up to the discretion of individual doctors, Rochman argued.

“The stipulation is in direct conflict with that [position],” he said. “It would put the decision in the hands of the physicians.”

Rochman said Providence St. Joseph deserves the right to present evidence before the court issues a preliminary injunction, and he tipped his hand to show what type of evidence the defense will provide. He cited a sworn declaration from Nusslock’s treating physician at St. Joseph Hospital, who determined that she was stable when she was discharged. If that’s true, it would negate any allegations that the hospital violated the ESL in Nusslock’s case, Rochman said.

Judge Canning asked why such arguments weren’t incorporated into the stipulation. Why didn’t Providence St. Joseph seek to make the agreement temporary pending a hearing on the merits of a preliminary injunction, as the attorneys are belatedly trying to do now?

Rochman said he wasn’t representing Providence when that agreement was struck, and he allowed that the stipulation could have been written better. But he quickly returned to the Constitutional matter of Freedom of Religion. 

“People don’t necessarily understand the relationship between the hospital and the Catholic Church,” he said. Part of the reason St. Joseph Hospital is here is because it has been sponsored for more than 100 years by a congregation of nuns who came to the area on “a health care healing mission of Jesus.”

That mission is what keeps the hospital operating programs even when they’re losing money, Rochman said.

”And frankly,” he continued, “the whole concept of St Joseph — a Catholic hospital — having to somehow pick up the slack for Mad River [Community Hospital] because they decided to save money and close their labor and delivery service doesn’t actually make sense … .”

He was interrupted, here, by a chorus of groans from the mostly full courtroom gallery. Judge Canning warned that if there were any more such outbursts, he’d clear the courtroom.

When Rochman returned to the matter of the 2016 agreement between the State and Providence, Canning interjected to ask whether whether this deal, as described by Rochman, doesn’t violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, which prevents the government from endorsing or favoring any particular religion. If the state gave its blessing for Providence to defer to the Catholic Ethics and Religious Directives, isn’t that an example of the State endorsing religious doctrines? the judge asked.

Rochman said that argument was new to him, but he’d be happy to consider it and respond in a court brief.

In closing, he reiterated his point that the terms of the stipulation “would have a massive impact on the hospital’s free exercise of religion,” and he again requested a full hearing on the preliminary injunction.

Given an opportunity to rebut the defense’s arguments, Houska circled back to the matter of who should be responsible for making medical decisions. He said the state’s bar on the corporate practice of medicine exists specifically to make sure that such decisions are left up to doctors, not corporate boards or religious ethics committees.

”Determining when a patient is sick enough to warrant specific treatment is an absolutely quintessential medical decision that only doctors in their professional judgment ought to be making,” he said.

These arguments and more are likely to be resurrected during the hearing on a preliminary injunction, whenever it occurs. Again, the next hearing in this matter is a case management conference scheduled for Oct. 27.

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CORRECTION: This story initially misspelled attorney Harvey Rochman’s name. The Outpost regrets the error.

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PREVIOUSLY

• Attorney General Sues St. Joseph Hospital for Denying a Woman Emergency Abortion Care
• Providence Offers ‘Profound Apologies’ to Woman Denied Emergency Abortion Care at St. Joseph Hospital
• A Local Doctor Urged St. Joseph Hospital to Change Its Anti-Abortion Policies Long Before State Lawsuit, According to Court Declaration
• BREAKING: St. Joseph Hospital Denies Allegations in State Abortion Care Lawsuit But Agrees to Follow State Health Care Laws as the Case Proceeds
• Judge Signs Order Committing St. Joseph Hospital to Providing Emergency Abortions, At Least For the Duration of AG Lawsuit
• Citing Religious Freedom and Catholic Doctrine, St. Joseph Health Challenges State’s Emergency Abortion Care Lawsuit on a Variety of Legal Grounds
• State Responds to St. Joseph Health’s Attempt to Get Emergency Abortion Lawsuit Dismissed
• ‘Providence Must Follow the Law’: At the Humboldt Reproductive Health Care Rally Before the Latest California vs. St. Joseph Hospital Hearing
• St. Joe’s Abortion Care Lawsuit: In a Packed Courtroom, Hospital’s Attorneys Ask Judge to Dismiss the Case
• New Abortion Care Lawsuit Filed Against St. Joseph Hospital by the National Women’s Law Center
• PBS NewsHour Reports From Eureka on the Limits of Reproductive Health Care at Catholic-Run Hospitals
• Judge Denies St. Joseph Health’s Motion to Dismiss State Lawsuit Over Emergency Abortion Care
• CalMatters: Her Miscarriage Showed the Limits of California’s Abortion Protections. Where You Live Matters
• Attorney General Says Providence is Trying to ‘Shirk Its Duty’ to Follow the Law In Emergency Abortion Care Suit
• Providence’s Effort to Back Out of Emergency Abortion Care Agreement Would Put Humboldt Women ‘Back in Harms’ Way,’ AG’s Office Argues in Latest Court Filing

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The Trump administration announced this week that it will take formal steps to rescind the Roadless Rule, loosening longstanding environmental protections for nearly 45 million acres of federally managed public lands, including 150,000 acres of pristine backcountry in the Six Rivers National Forest. 

In a press statement, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins claimed the action would “create healthy, resilient and productive forests” by removing “burdensome, outdated, one-size-fits-all regulations that not only put people and livelihoods at risk but also stifle economic growth in rural America.” Environmentalists and fire ecologists argue that removing protections would have the opposite effect.

“Roadless areas are some of the most wildfire-resilient landscapes in North America because they are the least degraded by industrial logging and road-building that would have converted fire-adapted native forests into fire-prone tree farms, and provided road access for human-caused ignitions from careless recreationists and sociopathic arsonists,” Timothy Ingalsbee, executive director of Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology (FUSEE), wrote in a prepared statement. “Tearing open roadless areas to industrial logging and road-building will do wildland firefighters no favors — just the opposite.”

The Roadless Area Conservation Rule, enacted by the Clinton administration in 2001, established a prohibition on new road construction/reconstruction and commercial logging across 58.2 million acres of designated roadless areas within the National Forest System. The rule applies to approximately 44.7 million acres of undisturbed public lands in 38 states and Puerto Rico, excluding 9.3 million acres in Idaho and 4.2 million acres in Colorado, which are under state-specific roadless rules.

California has the third-largest inventory of roadless areas in the United States, with 4.4 million acres listed in its National Wilderness Preservation System. Northwestern California’s roadless areas are depicted in the map below.

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What does this federal action mean for roadless areas in our neck of the woods? 

Tom Wheeler, executive director of the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC), told the Outpost that rescinding the Roadless Rule would remove immediate environmental protections for hundreds of thousands of acres of wilderness areas in the Six Rivers, Shasta-Trinity and Klamath National Forests.

“Should the Forest Service want to try to log, there are going to be fewer protections available for those forests,” Wheeler said. “The Trump administration has imposed various mandates, one of which is increasing timber production from federal lands, and the Forest Service has set itself a goal of increasing production by 25 percent by the close of this term. I think one way to do that — if we’re thinking about timber in terms of board feet, which is often how the Forest Service does it — is to get bigger trees. … There is a potential that [the Forest Service would] try to log older forests.”

There is no guarantee that that will happen, Wheeler said, but if the rule is rescinded, the “most significant protection for these areas will be gone.”

“What that means for a group like EPIC is we will continue to fight projects using other tools, such as the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the National Environmental Policy ACT (NEPA),” he said, adding that the Roadless Rule has been litigated numerous times over the last 25 years. “When this does pass, it’s assuredly going to be the subject of litigation, and we are going to fight over roadless areas again, as we fought over roadless areas for decades.”

U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz claims the conservation policy has “limited wildfire suppression and active forest management” in roadless areas. 

“The forests we know today are not the same as the forests of 2001,” Schultz said in a prepared statement. “They are dangerously overstocked and increasingly threatened by drought, mortality, insect-borne disease, and wildfire. It’s time to return land management decisions where they belong – with local Forest Service experts who best understand their forests and communities.”

The Six Rivers National Forest declined to comment on the recent federal action but directed our inquiry to the USDA office. An unnamed spokesperson provided the same quote from Chief Schultz and emphasized that increasing the number of roads in densely forested areas will “improve access for wildland firefighting when timing is critical, and lives are at risk.”

Wheeler and Ingalsbee, the wildfire ecologist we quoted earlier, argued that building new roads will drive traffic to remote wilderness areas, increasing the likelihood of human-caused wildfires.

“Roads are a vector for fire [because] most fires are caused by humans,” Wheeler said. “The Trump administration says [the rule] is hampering our ability to do fire suppression activities, but I would say that roadless areas are not the areas where we need to have aggressive fire suppression in the first place. … These areas are generally out in the backcountry where there aren’t structures, there aren’t human habitations, there isn’t the same kind of risk. There is a greater tolerance for fire in these areas, and natural wildfires are good for the landscape.”

It’s important to note that forest management practices are often reflective of the communities and culture surrounding the forest itself. The Six Rivers National Forest, for example, has often taken a more progressive approach to land management than other national forests, adopting prescribed burning practices that thin overgrown sites and benefit natural resources to prevent large-scale wildfires in the future.

The Klamath National Forest, on the other hand, is headquartered in Siskiyou County, under a different administrator.

“We might see differences in implementation, but one thing that might get in the way is pressure from the Forest Service to ‘get out the cut’ and increase their board footage,” Wheeler said. “If you’re a forest supervisor … and your job depends on hitting your timber targets in a conservative administration with pressure coming from D.C., that’s going to be important. I do think agency culture … means a lot, but these are folks that also get orders from above and they have to implement them to the best of their ability.”

Today, the USDA opened a 21-day public comment period to allow people to share their two cents as the federal government prepares to revoke the Roadless Rule. Written comments must be submitted to the USDA by Friday, Sept. 19. 

You can submit comments online at this link or via snail mail to: Director Econsystem Management Coordination, 201 14th Street SW, Mailstop 1108, Washington, DC 20250-1124.

PREVIOUSLY:

• Trump Administration Pulls Funding for ‘Fantasy Wind Projects,’ Including $426 Million Grant for Humboldt Bay Offshore Wind Terminal

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Press release from the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District:

Early this morning, the Harbor District received communications from the US Department of Transportation. The Federal government has withdrawn/terminated 12 grants totaling $679 million. This includes the PIDP and INFRA grants associated with the Humboldt Bay Heavy Lift Marine Terminal project. The communications indicate that our project is inconsistent with Federal priorities, including support for wind projects, the installation of solar panels, inclusion of EV charging equipment, and “support of society-wide decarbonization.”

The Harbor District is currently working with the State and other partners to determine our next steps. Preliminarily, this presents an opportunity to recommit to the values and ambitions associated with transitioning our energy systems away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy. We have every intention of continuing the project. We are incredibly proud of the work we have done to date, the coming together of our community in support of greater good, and the outpouring of messages today that encourage us to put our shoulders to the wheel. Expect further communication from the Harbor District in the coming week.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a new homeless response task force Friday, marking the latest escalation in his ongoing campaign to eradicate encampments.

Newsom’s office expects to deploy the team within the next month to camps in California’s 10 largest cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, San Diego, Sacramento, San Jose, Long Beach, Anaheim, Bakersfield and Fresno. It will address encampments on state property, such as along highway medians or on and off ramps, and under overpasses.

The news comes as Newsom in recent months has pushed for more enforcement against all encampments that line city streets and sidewalks, dot public parks and wind along waterways throughout the state. In May, he urged cities to make it illegal to camp in one place for more than three nights in a row. Last year, he ordered state agencies to ramp up encampment clearings.

“California has put in place a strong, comprehensive strategy for fighting the national homelessness and housing crises — and is outperforming the nation as a result in turning this issue around,” Newsom said in a statement. “No one should live in a dangerous or unsanitary encampment, and we will continue our ongoing work to ensure that everyone has a safe place to call home.”

Dubbed the State Action for Facilitation on Encampments Task Force, Newsom’s new team will include representatives from six different state agencies and departments, each with a different role to play in removing an encampment:

• The California Highway Patrol will be responsible for providing public safety support during a removal, and later for monitoring the area to prevent the encampment from returning.
• The Office of Emergency Services will oversee logistics and procuring resources.
• The Department of Housing and Community Development will be in charge of providing housing and supportive services for the people living in encampments.
• The Interagency Council on Homelessness will guide local governments on how to help those people.
• Health and Human Services will support local government’s efforts to provide health care to people in encampments
• Caltrans will do the actual work of clearing encampments.

It’s too soon to tell exactly how this new directive will change the state’s response to homeless encampments, said Alex Visotzky, senior Cailifornia policy fellow for the National Alliance to End Homelessness. The language in the news release sent out by Newsom’s office had few specific details about how the task force will function. Newsom’s office did not respond to a request for an interview.

But the only proven way to resolve an encampment is to move people into housing and connect them with the other services they need, Visotzky said.

“My hope is that the task force will make sure we’re understanding the needs of residents of those encampments,” he said, “and what barriers they’re facing to getting back into housing, if we’re going to see results.”

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass applauded the new task force Friday.

“Homeless encampments, debris and graffiti located on highways and freeways are under state jurisdiction,” she said in a statement. “I am glad that the Governor is continuing action to collaborate with local efforts. Los Angeles has bucked nationwide trends of increasing homelessness and Governor Newsom’s announcement of a task force today will help keep that momentum.”

A 2024 U.S. Supreme Court ruling gave cities and counties more freedom to ticket or arrest people for camping in public, even if there are no shelter beds available. Since then, homelessness-related tickets and arrests have soared in some California cities.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump’s administration is cracking down on encampments at the federal level. Trump signed an executive order this summer pushing cities and states to use law enforcement to get people off the streets.

Some experts and advocates in the homelessness sector have pointed out the similarities between Trump and Newsom’s approaches to clearing encampments.

But on Friday, Newsom’s administration tried to distance its policies from that of the president, stating in a news release:

“Unlike the haphazard strategies employed by the Trump Administration, California’s SAFE Task Force brings together each of the tools created by Governor Newsom to clear encampments and connect people with the care they need.”

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UPDATE: The office of North Coast Rep. Jared Huffman issued the following press release in response to Trump’s decision to kill funding for offshore wind projects:

Today, Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement on the Trump administration’s latest attack on clean energy: 

“This is a new level of idiocracy, where the Trump administration is trying to destroy an entire sector of clean energy, kill thousands of good paying jobs, and drive up electricity prices for American consumers. 

“Surrendering the future to China by dragging America back to dirty, climate-wrecking fossil fuel dependency while most of the world is moving on to safer, cleaner, and cheaper clean energy, is reckless, corrupt, and profoundly against our national interests.

“The Humboldt project in my district shows what’s possible when we put people over polluters. For a small, rural community, it means jobs, affordable and clean power for millions, and Tribes getting a seat at the table and share of the benefits. But Trump has decided that keeping Big Oil happy matters more than lowering costs, creating jobs, or securing America’s energy future. 

“Democrats are fighting for jobs, affordable power, and a clean energy future. Trump is fighting for corrupt oil executives who bankrolled his campaign, and that damage is going to be felt for generations.” 

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Press release from the U.S. Department of Transportation: 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy withdrew or terminated a total of $679 million in funding for 12 doomed offshore wind projects across America. This action will ensure federal dollars are prioritized towards restoring America’s maritime dominance and preventing waste. 

“Wasteful, wind projects are using resources that could otherwise go towards revitalizing America’s maritime industry,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy. “Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg bent over backwards to use transportation dollars for their Green New Scam agenda while ignoring the dire needs of our shipbuilding industry. Thanks to President Trump, we are prioritizing real infrastructure improvements over fantasy wind projects that cost much and offer little.”  

The Trump Administration has refocused the Department of Transportation (USDOT) and its Maritime Administration (MARAD) on rebuilding America’s shipbuilding capacity, unleashing more reliable, traditional forms of energy, and utilizing the nation’s bountiful natural resources to unleash American energy. 

Where possible, funding from these projects will be recompeted to address critical port upgrades and other core infrastructure needs of the United States.

Additional Information:

As part of the Department of Transportation’s review of all discretionary grant programs with obligated and unobligated projects, USDOT identified 12 offshore wind grants and project selections that were not aligned with the goals and priorities of the administration.

USDOT has withdrawn one project in the Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects (INFRA) program, resulting in a total retraction of roughly $427 million. MARAD has withdrawn six projects and terminated five within its Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP), resulting in a total retraction of $177 million and roughly $75 million, respectively. 

Withdrawn:

• Sparrows Point Steel Marshalling Port Project (PIDP; $47,392,500)
• Bridgeport Port Authority Operations and Maintenance Wind Port Project (PIDP;$10,530,000)
• Wind Port at Paulsboro (PIDP; $20,494,025)
• Arthur Kill Terminal (PIDP; $48,008,231)
• Gateway Upgrades for Access, Resiliency & Development at the Port of Davisville Project (PIDP; $11,250,000)
• Norfolk Offshore Wind Logistics Port (PIDP; $39,265,000)
• Humboldt Bay Offshore Wind (INFRA; $426,719,810)

Terminated:

• Redwood Marine Terminal Project Planning (PIDP; $8,672,986)
• Salem Wind Port Project (PIDP; $33,835,953)
• Lake Erie Renewable Energy Resilience Project (PIDP; $11,051,586)
• Radio Island Rail Improvements in Support of Offshore Wind (PIDP; $1,679,604)
• PMT Offshore Wind Development (PIDP; $20,000,000)

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PREVIOUSLY:

• Harbor District Announces Massive Offshore Wind Partnership; Project Would Lead to an 86-Acre Redevelopment of Old Pulp Mill Site
• Offshore Wind is Coming to the North Coast. What’s in it For Humboldt?
• ‘Together We Can Shape Offshore Wind for The West Coast’: Local Officials, Huffman and Others Join Harbor District Officials in Celebrating Partnership Agreement With Crowley Wind Services
• Humboldt Harbor District Officials Talk Port Development As Offshore Wind Efforts Ramp Up
• Harbor District Responds to Crowley Controversy, Commits to the ‘Highest Ethical Standards’
• LoCO Interview: The Outpost Talks to Crowley Executives About Recent Allegations of Misconduct, Port Development on the Samoa Peninsula and the Company’s Future in Humboldt
• (UPDATE) Huffman Announces $8.7 Million Federal Grant Toward Offshore Wind Port Development
• Harbor District Commissioners to Discuss Extended Partnership Agreement with Crowley Wind Services During Tonight’s Meeting
• WHOA: Rep. Huffman’s Office Teases $426 Million Federal Grant for Offshore Wind Terminal, to be Announced Tomorrow
• (PHOTOS) The Biggest Federal Grant in Humboldt History? Huffman, Assorted Worthies Gather on Woodley Island to Celebrate $426 Million in Infrastructure Funding for Offshore Wind
• At a Two-Day Conference in Eureka This Week, North Coast Tribes Advocate for ‘Meaningful Engagement’ With Offshore Wind Developers, Federal Regulators
• (VIDEO) See What Wind Turbine Assembly Would Look Like on Humboldt Bay, Courtesy of This Presentation From the Harbor District
• Did You See That Big Ship in Humboldt Bay Last Week? That’s the Vessel Mapping the Seabed and Collecting Data for Offshore Wind Development
• INTERVIEW: Harbor District Outlines Next Steps for Offshore Wind Development on the North Coast
• INTERVIEW: Rep. Huffman on Trump’s Offshore Wind Ban
• Local Stakeholders Explore Next Steps for Offshore Wind Despite ‘Significant Uncertainties’ Posed by Trump Administration
• Anti-Offshore Wind Groups Target $426M Federal Grant to Port of Humboldt Bay
• Trump Administration Rescinds Designated Offshore Wind Project Areas; Existing Lease Areas — Including Humboldt — Will Likely Not Be Affected

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Press release from the Six Rivers National Forest:

Dillon Fire: 4,016 acres; 0% containment

Fire Information: 707-502-4837

Email: 2025.Dillon@firenet.gov

Personnel: 284

Online Fire Information: www.linktr.ee/srffirepio

Operational Updates: California Complex Incident Management Team 1 assumed command of the Dillon Fire this morning. The top priority is public and firefighters’ safety. The Dillon Fire is being managed with a full suppression strategy. The fire remained active yesterday and through the night.

Hose lays have been established near structures east of Highway 96 near Ti Bar Ranch. Today crews continue to focus on the fire in the area, doing structure protection and constructing control lines near structures. Heavy equipment completed a dozer line along Beans Ridge, and hand crews plan to finish a handline to tie into Forest Service Road 13N13. Fire personnel are scouting the southern and west sides of the fire looking for opportunities to establish control lines. Firefighters are working closely with resource advisors and cultural resource specialists to ensure natural and cultural resources are protected. The fire is backing down to Dillon Creek on the north side of the fire and fire activity is being monitored closely, but no crews are in this area due inaccessibility.

Weather will continue to be dry and warm with temperatures in the mid 80’s. Relative humidity will remain in the upper teens, and wind gusts up to 25 miles an hour are possible.

CalTrans: Operating 1-way controlled traffic on Highway 96 at various locations from 10.7 miles west to 2.2 miles west of Cottage Grove due to fire operations.

Evacuations: Below are the current evacuation order and warning zones for the Dillon Fire:

• Evacuation ORDERS: SIS-1405, SIS-1402-A, SIS-1503-A, SIS-1509-B and SIS-1506.
• Evacuation WARNINGS: SIS-1402-B, SIS-1509-A, SIS-1604, SIS-1503-B, SIS-1300, SIS-1301 and SIS-1408.

The latest evacuation information can be found here.

Visit the Siskiyou County Office of Emergency Services Facebook page for fire-related resources and general safety information.

If you are in an Evacuation Order Zone, LEAVE IMMEDIATELY. This lawful order is not only to protect your life, but the lives of firefighters, law enforcement, and emergency medical personnel.

For shelter information and resources related to the fire evacuations, please call (530) 340–3539.

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