Eureka Police Department:

On November 29, 2024 at approximately 2:52 PM, Eureka Police Department Officers were dispatched to the 2100 block of G Street for a Missing Person report. Michael Bounds’ family indicated he was last seen November 27 at approximately 6:00 PM. Michael is a 60-year old white male, 5’10”, approximately 190 lbs. with a health condition that requires daily medication.

On November 30, a family member contacted EPD in regard to Bounds’ 2006 silver Dodge Charger being located on Vance Avenue near Eureka Street in the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office jurisdiction. With his vehicle located, in collaboration with HCSO Search & Rescue and CHP, greenbelts near where Bounds was last seen was searched. Bounds’ vehicle was towed to a secure facility. The search of these greenbelts is still active.

As EPD’s Criminal Investigations Unit Detectives and Forensic Analyst are actively working on locating Bounds, they are looking to speak with any potential witnesses who may have observed or had contact with Bounds since the night of November 27. They are also working on locating surveillance footage of the area where Bounds’ vehicle was located.

Currently, this is an active At-Risk Missing Person incident. If anyone has any information or video footage, please contact EPD Criminal Investigations Unit at 707-441-4300.

Video: Tex Kelly

Many congratulations to the Arcata High Tigers football squad, who made history by winning the North Coast Section’s Division 6 championship on Saturday, at home, by a score of 28-21.

Your best coverage of the game can be found on Ray Hamill’s website, HumboldtSports.com, and if you want the drive-by-drive, stand-by-stand recap, that’s where you want to go.

But if you want a blast of emotion from the game, Best Friend o’ the LoCO Tex Kelly — a former AHS quarterback himself! — was at the game taking photos and videos, including the one above, which he agreed to share with us.

Check out Kelly’s really nice photo spread at his website.

The Tigers now move on to the state championship bracket. According to Hamill, they’re facing off against Winters High School on 7:30 p.m., on Winters’ home turf. If they win that game, it’s on to the state AA championship weekend after next.

ALL HAIL TIGERS. We showed the whole, wide world this is Tiger Territory.

They’re out here trying! Learn more about what our local cannabis cultivators are cooking up this holiday season in the Humboldt County Growers Alliance release below:

This holiday season, Northern California’s Emerald Triangle invites you to celebrate its unparalleled quality with the launch of the 12 Jays of X-Mas Gift Box—a one-of-a-kind collaboration showcasing twelve premium pre-rolls from twelve renowned craft farms. This limited-edition gift embodies the heritage, craftsmanship, and sustainability of Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity Counties while directly supporting small, family-owned farms and nonprofit trade associations.

Beautifully packaged, the 12 Jays of X-Mas Gift Box offers a curated journey through some of the Emerald Triangle’s most iconic offerings. Each pre-roll represents the artistry and dedication of legacy farmers, with strains designed to deliver diverse experiences—from relaxing evenings to uplifting daytime adventures.

“This isn’t just a gift; it’s an opportunity to connect with the stories, people, and practices that make the Emerald Triangle legendary,” said Natalynne DeLapp, Executive Director of the Humboldt County Growers Alliance (HCGA). “By purchasing the 12 Jays Gift Box, you’re supporting small farms that have been the backbone of this community for generations.”

“The 12 Jays of X-Mas Gift Box is a groundbreaking step for small farmers, demonstrating how we can unite to elevate our brands and connect directly with consumers, said Judi Nelson, Sol Spirit Farm, Co-Producer of the 12 Jays Project. This project showcases the strength and resilience of the Emerald Triangle community, proving that collaboration can pave the way for a brighter future for craft farming.”

The Farms Behind the Magic: This year’s 12 Jays of X-Mas Gift Box includes:

Humboldt Nation: Green Crack A 1g pre-roll of the legendary strain Green Crack, known for its bright, citrusy flavors and energizing effects. Exclusive to Humboldt Nation.

Farm Cut: Royal Blueberry Two pre-rolls from Emerald Spirit Botanicals featuring the award-winning Royal Blueberry (Rose Queen x Blueberry Muffin) offer a balanced and relaxing experience.

Sol Spirit Farm: Headbanded A nostalgic blend of Headband, Sour Diesel, and Element—perfect for holiday gatherings and cozy evenings.

Nasha Extracts: Altitude Infused This hash-infused pre-roll, crafted with Jack Herer flower from Alpenglow Farms and Banana Breath hash from Mattole Valley Sungrown, offers creativity and euphoria.

Moon Made: Split Pre-Rolls Choose between the Woodstock Lunar Evening Blend with rich tannins or the Citrus Zest Solar Daytime Blend, bursting with effervescent citrus flavors.

Most Wanted: Whitethorn Rose An award-winning, citrus-forward sativa pre-roll perfect for an uplifting day.

That Good Good Farm: Cap Junky x Permanent Marker This gassy, relaxing indica features rubbery, pungent flavors for a truly unique experience.

Redwood Roots: Gelonade A sweet and citrusy sativa from Hidden Prairie Farms, ideal for boosting creativity and focus.

Talking Trees: Zkittlez The most awarded strain, with robust, fruity flavors and eco-conscious packaging.

Mendocino Natural Farms: Sour Diesel A timeless classic delivering dreamy, energizing effects with its unmistakable fuel-like aroma.

Arcanna: Magical Fruit or Jedi Nights Magical Fruit offers balanced, uplifting effects with a sweet, fermented fruit profile, while Jedi Nights OG brings a gassy, pine-forward hybrid experience.

Bigfoot: Papaya Bomb A hybrid bursting with fruity, skunky flavors, made with hand-trimmed A-buds for a homespun-style pre-roll.

More than just a gift box, the 12 Jays of X-Mas project creates opportunities for consumers to meet the farmers behind their favorite strains through Holiday “Craft” Faires across California. Events in Eureka, San Francisco, Richmond, Sherman Oaks, and Sacramento will bring together the community for an immersive craft cannabis experience, where participants can pick up their gift boxes, meet the farmers, and celebrate the season.

Reserve your box at EmeraldTriangleCraft.com with a $40 donation to HCGA. This guarantees your invitation to a Holiday “Craft” Faire, where you’ll complete your purchase for $60 plus state and local taxes with our licensed cannabis retailer, Humboldt Nation.

Holiday “Craft” Faire Details:

• Eureka: December 7, 12–5 PM, Crisp Cannabis Lounge
• San Francisco: December 12
• Richmond: December 14
• Sherman Oaks: December 20
• Sacramento: Home delivery available!

Additionally, a limited number of boxes will be available for purchase at select retailers:

• Satori Wellness (McKinleyville)
• Pacific Paradise (Arcata)
• Bigfoot Cannabis (Willow Creek)

Boxes at retail locations are $100 plus applicable taxes.

Press release from Green Diamond:

Weather conditions permitting, Green Diamond Resource Company plans to conduct prescribed burning for fuel hazard reduction in Redwood Creek area today, 12/2. Burning operations are implemented in coordination with CAL FIRE, and the North Coast Unified Air Quality Management District.

Please note that smoke may be visible in surrounding areas, including Highway 101 and McKinleyville, while prescribed burning activities are being conducted. Green Diamond staff will be on site monitoring prescribed burning operations.

The leaders of the state Legislature have a message for voters: We know you’re frustrated with how expensive California is — and we’re going to fix it.

After a painful election that sparked recriminations and soul-searching among Democrats across the country, state Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas are returning to Sacramento recommitted to addressing the affordability issues that appear to have pushed more voters toward the Republican Party in November.

As a new two-year legislative session kicks off today at the state Capitol, McGuire and Rivas told CalMatters in separate interviews that the priority will be advancing policies that lower the cost of living for working Californians, including by building more housing, making energy cheaper and improving public infrastructure.

“Our only way forward is to acknowledge that we have to do better,” Rivas, a Salinas Democrat, said. “It’s clear — we haven’t done enough.”

Just don’t expect any dramatic changes under the dome. Despite losing a handful of seats, both leaders are adamant that returning Democratic supermajorities signal that voters are still on board with their values, if not always the outcomes of their governance.

Instead, the most significant difference in Sacramento next year is likely to be the shadow of a new president, Republican Donald Trump, who made California a punching bag on the campaign trail and has repeatedly threatened the state.

With many in state government resuming the resistance posture that defined California’s relationship to Trump during his first term from 2017 to 2021 — a concurrent special session called by Gov. Gavin Newsom to provide as much as $25 million for expected litigation also convenes today — it’s unclear how the Legislature will balance those competing interests and whether responding to Trump will ultimately distract from the work that the leaders say needs to happen on affordability.

“I firmly believe that we have to fight the damaging and destructive policies that Donald Trump is going to advance,” McGuire, a Santa Rosa Democrat, said. “We’re going to need to fight the Trump administration, but we can’t take our eye off all the challenges we need to fix.”

Taking losses in stride

The November election was undoubtedly a disappointment, though not a disaster, for legislative Democrats in California.

The Assembly caucus defended all of its incumbents but picked up none of the Republican districts it targeted and lost two open seats that had previously been held by Democrats. The Senate caucus also failed to flip its target districts, and members are fuming after a union ally helped the GOP take out one of their own, the first sitting Senate Democrat to lose in a presidential election in more than four decades.

“Do we need to reflect? Absolutely. But the numbers don’t lie. The Senate Republican Caucus still fits into a minivan.”
— Senate Leader Mike Mcguire

It was the best showing in a decade for legislative Republicans — all the more remarkable because Trump, who California Democrats have successfully used as a foil for years, was on the ballot. The party has celebrated it as proof that voters are fed up with how the Democrats in charge have handled affordability, homelessness and crime.

“As Californians grow increasingly frustrated with the failures of Democrat leadership, they are shifting toward Republican solutions,” Senate Republican Leader Brian Jones of San Diego said in a statement last week.

Democrats nevertheless maintain total control in Sacramento, including 60 out of 80 seats in the Assembly and 30 out of 40 seats in the Senate. McGuire and Rivas insist those results refute the notion that they have fallen out of step with what Californians want.

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas during a floor session at the Capitol in Sacramento on Jan. 22, 2024. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters

Rivas called it a “clear mandate” for Democrats — to focus on the issues that matter to voters, prove they are serious about governing and follow through with better outcomes.

“No, I don’t think we are out of touch,” he said. “It’s not about changing who we are, but it’s about changing our approach to addressing these many challenges.”

McGuire was even more resolute that legislative Democrats had won in a landslide.

“Do we need to reflect? Absolutely. But the numbers don’t lie,” he said. “The Senate Republican Caucus still fits into a minivan.”

Crime not a priority

The leaders have few details yet about how exactly they will address the cost of living in the coming session, as members continue to develop their legislative agendas.

McGuire said his caucus would advance an affordability plan “that makes the lives of working Californians and seniors better” and “go to the mat to fix our homelessness crisis.” Rivas said he expected housing to be at the top of the list for his caucus, as well as reviving a package of bills to lower energy prices that fell short last session.

One issue that does not appear to be a priority is crime, a source of increasing anxiety and frustration for many Californians, even after voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 36, which strengthens penalties for some drug and theft offenses.

Legislative Democrats largely backed Newsom earlier this year as he unsuccessfully tried to negotiate the measure off the November ballot. It ultimately won approval from more than 68% of voters, reversing a decade-long trend of the electorate loosening California’s criminal justice laws.

McGuire and Rivas defended their approach, which included passing a dozen bills cracking down on retail theft this summer as negotiations over the ballot measure fizzled — a legislative package that McGuire argues will do far more to solve the problem than Proposition 36.

Though he said lawmakers “need to listen” to the fact that voters wanted to go even further, McGuire did not commit to any additional action.

Rivas said he is serious about holding people who break the law accountable, but added that it is important to ensure more services, such as drug rehabilitation, are available to prevent a return to an earlier era where California’s prisons were deemed unconstitutionally overcrowded.

“This is more than just sending people to jail. This is about alternatives to incarceration,” Rivas said. “There is a pendulum. It swings hard left, hard right. We want to do an adequate job where that pendulum does not swing at all.”

The Trump factor

The Democratic leaders’ plans could be upended by what Trump decides to do when he takes office on Jan. 20.

Fighting back against the president became an inescapable focus of California officials during Trump’s first term. While the Legislature passed laws to protect the environment, prevent cooperation with immigration enforcement and even try to pry loose Trump’s tax returns, the state sued his administration more than 120 times over policy disputes.

Just two days after Trump won the presidency again last month, Newsom called a special session seeking additional funding for the state Department of Justice and other state agencies as officials prepare another barrage of litigation. Battles are expected this time over access to abortion medication, California’s commitment to phasing out gas-powered cars and protections for immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.

State Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire during a session at the Capitol Annex Swing Space on Oct. 7, 2024. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters

McGuire said the special session is important so that California can move with speed to “build a legal firewall” as it did before.

“The United States of America is in the calm before the storm. The hurricane is about to hit,” he said. “And shame on us if we’re not battening down the hatches.”

While he’s “all in” on any genuine opportunity to work with Trump to benefit California, McGuire said “there’s also a dark red line” that he won’t accept the president crossing.

“I take Donald Trump at his word. He’s coming for those who don’t agree, and California is in the bullseye,” McGuire said. “If the president-elect tries to undermine our state, undermine our democracy, he’ll quickly see how determined the people of California truly are.”

But they may not be as determined as they were eight years ago. Trump’s second victory, including in the popular vote this time around, has been met by many Democrats more with resignation than defiance.

Even Rivas seems disinclined to leap back into the fray. He said California would defend its values, but with much of that work already done, lawmakers could focus instead on better serving working people and Latino communities who have felt left behind.

“This is not 2016,” he said. “Find an area in the last eight years where California hasn’t Trump-proofed already. Now is the time to roll up our sleeves.”

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CalMatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.

If you’ve hunted for apartments recently and felt like all the rents were equally high, you’re not crazy: Many landlords now use a single company’s software — which uses an algorithm based on proprietary lease information — to help set rent prices.

Federal prosecutors say the practice amounts to “an unlawful information-sharing scheme” and some lawmakers throughout California are moving to curb it. San Diego’s city council president is the latest to do so, proposing to prevent local apartment owners from using the pricing software, which he maintains is driving up housing costs.

San Diego’s proposed ordinance, now being drafted by the city attorney, comes after San Francisco supervisors in July enacted a similar, first-in-the-nation ban on “the sale or use of algorithmic devices to set rents or manage occupancy levels” for residences. San Jose is considering a similar approach.

And California and seven other states have also joined the federal prosecutors’ antitrust suit, which targets the leading rental pricing platform, Texas-based RealPage. The complaint alleges that “RealPage is an algorithmic intermediary that collects, combines, and exploits landlords’ competitively sensitive information. And in so doing, it enriches itself and compliant landlords at the expense of renters who pay inflated prices…”

But state lawmakers this year failed to advance legislation by Bakersfield Democratic Sen. Melissa Hurtado that would have banned the use of any pricing algorithms based on nonpublic data provided by competing companies. She said she plans to bring the bill back during the next legislative session because of what she described as ongoing harms from such algorithms.

“We’ve got to make sure the economy is fair and … that every individual who wants a shot at creating a business has a shot without being destroyed along the way, and that we’re also protecting consumers because it is hurting the pocketbooks of everybody in one way or another,” said Hurtado.

RealPage has been a major impetus for all of the actions. The company counts as its customers landlords with thousands of apartment units across California. Some officials accuse the company of thwarting competition that would otherwise drive rents down, exacerbating the state’s housing shortage and driving up rents in the process.

“Every day, millions of Californians worry about keeping a roof over their head and RealPage has directly made it more difficult to do so,” said California Attorney General Rob Bonta in a written statement.

A RealPage spokesperson, Jennifer Bowcock, told CalMatters that a lack of housing supply, not the company’s technology, is the real problem — and that its technology benefits residents, property managers, and others associated with the rental market. The spokesperson later wrote that a “ misplaced focus on nonpublic information is a distraction… that will only make San Francisco and San Diego’s historical problems worse.”

As for the federal lawsuit, the company called the claims in it “devoid of merit” and said it plans to “vigorously defend ourselves against these accusations.”

“We are disappointed that, after multiple years of education and cooperation on the antitrust matters concerning RealPage, the (Justice Department) has chosen this moment to pursue a lawsuit that seeks to scapegoat pro-competitive technology that has been used responsibly for years,” the company’s statement read in part. “RealPage’s revenue management software is purposely built to be legally compliant, and we have a long history of working constructively with the (department) to show that.”

The company’s challenges will only grow if pricing software becomes another instance in which California lawmakers lead the nation. Following San Francisco’s ban, the Philadelphia City Council passed a ban on algorithmic rental price-fixing with a veto-proof vote last month. New Jersey has been considering its own ban.

Is it price fixing — or coaching landlords?

According to federal prosecutors, RealPage controls 80% of the market for commercial revenue management software. Its product is called YieldStar, and its successor is AI Revenue Management, which uses much of the same codebase as YieldStar, but has more precise forecasting. RealPage told CalMatters it serves only 10% of the rental markets in both San Francisco and San Diego, across its three revenue management software products.

Here’s how it works:

In order to use YieldStar and AIRM, landlords have historically provided RealPage with their own private data from their rental applications, rent prices, executed new leases, renewal offers and acceptances, and estimates of future occupancy, although a recent change allows landlords to choose to share only public data. This information from all participating landlords in an area is then pooled and run through mathematical forecasting to generate pricing recommendations for the landlords and for their competitors.

The San Diego council president, Sean Elo-Rivera, explained it like this:

“In the simplest terms, what this platform is doing is providing what we think of as that dark, smoky room for big companies to get together and set prices,” he said. “The technology is being used as a way of keeping an arm’s length from one big company to the other. But that’s an illusion.”

“Our tool ensures that [landlords] are driving every possible opportunity to increase price even in the most downward trending or unexpected conditions.”
— RealPage document included in federal antitrust lawsuit

In the company’s own words, from company documents included in the lawsuit, RealPage “ensures that (landlords) are driving every possible opportunity to increase price even in the most downward trending or unexpected conditions.” The company also said in the documents that it “helps curb (landlords’) instincts to respond to down-market conditions by either dramatically lowering price or by holding price… Our tool ensures that [landlords] are driving every possible opportunity to increase price even in the most downward trending or unexpected conditions.”Providing rent guidance isn’t the only service RealPage has offered landlords. In 2020, a Markup and New York Times investigation found that RealPage, alongside other companies, used faulty computer algorithms to do automated background checks on tenants. As a result, tenants were associated with criminal charges they never faced, and denied homes.

Impact on tenants

Thirty-one-year-old Navy veteran Alan Pickens and his wife move nearly every year “because the rent goes up, it gets unaffordable, so we look for a new place to stay,” he said. The northeastern San Diego apartment complex where they just relocated has two-bedroom apartments advertised for between $2,995 and $3,215.

They live in an area of San Diego where the U.S. Justice Department says information-sharing agreements between landlords and RealPage have harmed or are likely to harm renters.

The department in August filed its antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, alleging the company, through its legacy YieldStar software, engaged in an “unlawful scheme to decrease competition among landlords in apartment pricing”. The complaint names specific areas where rents are artificially high. Beyond the part of San Diego where Pickens lives, those areas include South Orange County, Rancho Cucamonga, Temecula, and Murrieta and northeastern San Diego.

In the second quarter of 2020, the average rent in San Diego County was $1,926, reflecting a 26% increase over three years, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. Rents have since risen even more in the city of San Diego, to $2,336 per month as of November 2024 – up 21% from 2020, according to RentCafe and the Tribune. That’s 50% higher than the national average rent.

The attorneys general of eight states, including California, joined the Justice Department’s antitrust suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.

The California Justice Department contends RealPage artificially inflated prices to keep them above a certain minimum level, said department spokesperson Elissa Perez. This was particularly harmful given the high cost of housing in the state, she added. “The illegally maintained profits that result from these price alignment schemes come out of the pockets of the people that can least afford it.”

Renters make up a larger share of households in California than in the rest of the country — 44% here compared to 35% nationwide. The Golden State also has a higher percentage of renters than any state other than New York, according to the latest U.S. Census data.

San Diego has the fourth-highest percentage of renters of any major city in the nation.

“The rent goes up, it gets unaffordable, so we look for a new place to stay.
— Alan Pickens, resident of a San Diego neighborhood where pricing software allegedly harmed renters or is likely to do so

The recent ranks of California legislators, however, have included few renters: As of 2019, CalMatters could find only one state lawmaker who did not own a home — and found that more than a quarter of legislators at the time were landlords.

Studies show that low-income residents are more heavily impacted by rising rents. Nationally between 2000 and 2017, Americans without a college degree spent a higher percentage of their income on rent. That percentage ballooned from 30% to 42%. For college graduates, that percentage increased from 26% to 34%.

“In my estimation, the only winners in this situation are the richest companies who are either using this technology or creating this technology,” said Elo-Rivera. “There couldn’t be a more clear example of the rich getting richer while the rest of us are struggling to get by.”

The state has invested in RealPage

Private equity giant Thoma Bravo acquired RealPage in January 2021 through two funds that have hundreds of millions of dollars in investments from California public pension funds, including the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, the Regents of the University of California and the Los Angeles police and fire pension funds, according to Private Equity Stakeholder Project.

“They’re invested in things that are directly hurting their pensioners,” said K Agbebiyi, a senior housing campaign coordinator with the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, a nonprofit private equity watchdog that produced a report about corporate landlords’ impact on rental hikes in San Diego.

RealPage argues that landlords are free to reject the price recommendations generated by its software. But the U.S. Justice Department alleges that trying to do so requires a series of steps, including a conversation with a RealPage pricing adviser. The advisers try to “stop property managers from acting on emotions,” according to the department’s lawsuit.

If a property manager disagrees with the price the algorithm suggests and wants to decrease rent rather than increase it, a pricing advisor will “escalate the dispute to the manager’s superior,” prosecutors allege in the suit.

In San Diego, the Pickenses, who are expecting their first child, have given up their gym memberships and downsized their cars to remain in the area. They’ve considered moving to Denver.

“All the extras pretty much have to go,” said Pickens. “I mean, we love San Diego, but it’s getting hard to live here.”

“My wife is an attorney and I served in the Navy for 10 years and now work at Qualcomm,” he said. “Why are we struggling? Why are we struggling?”###

CalMatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.

Levi Humphrey — Oct. 30, 1933 to Nov. 11, 2024. 91 years of age.

Born October 30, 1933 on the family homestead near Copeland, Arkansas. He was the second youngest of 11 children. His first years were typical farm life watching his father and older brothers till many acres behind a team of horses and helping with the harvest as he could. In 1937, his father purchased a new Ford two ton truck. Shortly thereafter with the family and their belongings loaded onboard, they headed for California over the famed Route 66. Levi said he felt a kinship with John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” which was written approximately the same time. Arriving in California, they developed into a migrant farm worker family traveling a circuit through California, Oregon, Washington and Arizona. Picking strawberries in Oregon and hops (a major component in the brewing of beer) being some of the high points of their season. With the advent of World War 2 and gasoline rationing, the migrant farm worker lifestyle was no longer viable. So the family returned to the Arkansas homestead for the duration of the war. After the war ended, the family returned to California settling in the Modesto area seeking a more stable life. Resuming a migrant farm worker routine through the summer months but with less and less family members in tow.

After his schooling years, Levi moved to the Cottage Grove, Oregon area and began his career working in sawmills. Still in his teen years, he was drafted into the U.S Army. Upon leaving his childhood home of Modesto, it was noted by neighbors that his cheerful whistling as he walked to and fro from his hunting and fishing adventures was greatly missed.

He completed basic training in Fort Ord, California then was deployed to Germany where he met his future wife Lore. His Company receiving an earlier discharge prevented him from marrying Lore in Germany. Upon returning to the U.S. and after much toil, paperwork and an attorney, he was able to have Lore immigrated to the U.S. They married on April 5, 1956 remaining married until her passing in 2019.

Shortly after marriage, they moved to Briceland, where he resumed his career in the sawmills. Levi said that of all the places he had lived and traveled, southern Humboldt County was the best and he remained there the rest of his life. He would typically work at a sawmill until it ceased operations and then shortly thereafter be employed at another local sawmill. He retired from Eel River Sawmills Redcrest Division at the age of 60 at the request of family.

An avid outdoorsman since childhood, he and his family spent many pleasant days hunting, fishing and camping. Some of the family favorites included trout fishing the tributaries of the Eel and Mattole rivers until regulations prohibited such, camping and surf fishing at Usal and rock picking abalone at the beaches of Mendocino and Humboldt counties.

After retiring, Levi discovered new passions. Namely the foraging of wild mushrooms and hunting the newly introduced by California Department of Fish and Game wild turkeys. Along with his lifelong activities of hunting and fishing, his vegetable garden, tending his honeybees, grafting, pruning and harvesting his fruit trees, yard work and maintenance of his Redway home, cutting and selling firewood, tending and maintaining his beloved property near the Garberville airport made him a perpetually busy man. Always in very good health right up to his passing of natural causes. He instilled in his children to never be afraid of hard work and cherish the outdoors.

He was preceded in passing by his wife of 63 years, Lore, in 2019, his 10 brothers and sisters and by all but one sister in law. Levi is survived by his much loved sister in law Maryann Humphrey of Alderpoint, four children, one stepson, five grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

If any memorial contributions wish to be made, Levi would ask that you join the National Rifle Association to help preserve the Second Amendment.

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