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Mad River Beachgoers Manage to Ignite Some Sort of Explosive Device
…The two reportedly picked up one of the devices thinking it was trash. When the subjects placed the device back onto the beach, the device ignited. The two subjects then buried the…
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: Los Angeles is Fine
…Palm trees do grow — here and there; they line just a few residential streets in Inglewood, along with trash. L.A.’s Euclidean layout was established during Mexican colonization.And I have…
Seabirds Eating Plastic. Recyclers Struggling. This Is What California’s Waste Crisis Looks Like
It was more than a year after the seabird died and washed up on a California beach before Jessie Beck prepared to reveal its last meals. Holding its stomach over a laboratory…
Why a California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Cigarette Filters and Disposable Vapes
…Each time, the bill died in the Assembly Committee on Governmental Organization Committee. “Cigarette waste is the most ubiquitous trash we find in beaches, parks, rivers, everywhere,” he said. “Cigarette waste is…
FIELD TRIP! 1,000 Humboldt Kids Had a Fun, Productive, Educational Time at the Beach Today
…After spending the picking up trash and removing invasive plant species to create space for native biodiversity, participating students, teachers, and volunteers created an aerial design featuring a pair of Western Grebes…
Redwood National Park Will Stay Open During Government Shutdown, Though Services Will Be Limited
…There will be no National Park Service (NPS)-provided visitor services at Redwood National Park, including public information, restrooms, trash collection, facilities and roads maintenance. Permits will not be issued for vehicle…
OBITUARY: Clara Francis Cooper, 1929-2018
…She could be seen picking up trash and washing off city bus stop benches or public restrooms. She would not wait for others to do it, but would do it herself if…
Long-Closed Section of California Coast Trail Reopens This Friday
…Redwood National and State Parks is pleased to announce that the section of the California Coastal Trail (CCT) in the parks between the Crescent Beach Overlook trailhead and the Damnation Creek trailhead…
Paintings by Local Artist Matt Beard Selected to Promote This Year’s California Coastal Cleanup Day
…to donate his art for the cause — part of an annual, international effort to collect beach trash — Beard didn't quite understand. "When they first called I thought I was busted," he…
(PHOTO) These Humboldt Kids are Waving at You
Friends of the DunesWhy did a bunch of Humboldt elementary school kids form a giant wave on the beach today? Well, for the 14th annual Kids Ocean Day, of course! What in…
This Free Shopping Bag Will Help You Remember the Eureka Street Sweeping Schedule
…All bags are designed with a complete and colorful street map that lets residents know when street cleanings are scheduled so that cars can be temporarily moved in order for all trash…
(VIDEO) Local Couple Sails Nonstop Across the Pacific Ocean From Humboldt Bay to Hawaiian Island of Kauai for One-of-a-Kind Vacation
…I’m sure we sailed through it, but it was more like, ‘oh there goes something bobbing along,’ and you’d see that at the beaches in Kauai too along the tideline…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: Beach Cleanup Retrospective! Plus: Did You Groms Know That Kelly Slater and Jack Johnson Were Totally in a Movie Together?
…Pick up trash on the Samoa Peninsula. If the trash is too big or too gross to handle alone, call our Certified Beach Trash Cleanup Crew Hotline at 707-633-8753 Step…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: Coastal Cleanup Day This Saturday! Here Are a Bunch of Beaches That Need Your Help
…Samoa Beach, “Water Tanks” turnout (just before Bay Street parking lot)How: We will provide FREE coffee and bagels donated by Los Bagels, trash bags, trash grabbers, and sharps disposal containers. Wear…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: We Shall Rid the Beaches of Trash and Grime and Greedy Billionaires!
Happy people, happy beaches. Photo: Northcoast Environmental Center.Coastal Cleanup Day is Coming Up! Join the largest volunteer event and global movement to keep beaches, waterways and the ocean trash-free — Coastal…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: Trinidad School Students Study Sea Star Wasting
…Students set up transect lines at two sites on Trinidad State Beach. “We recorded size, color, whether they’re adults or juveniles, what stage of the disease if at all, and where…
(VIDEO) Hundreds of Humboldt Youth ‘Come Together’ for Kids’ Ocean Day
…a beach. On Thursday nearly 1,000 students piled on buses en route to the South Spit for Kids' Ocean Day, part of a California Coastal Commission statewide marine trash education program…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: Creature Carnage, Trash Islands and Coastal Tours
…Speaking of things washing a-shore… This island is a trash magnet. We’ve all heard of gyres, floating accumulations of trash in the ocean created by a system of rotating currents…
CITY OF EUREKA: We Gotta Dredge the Marinas, and Dumping the Spoils on the Beach is The Least Environmentally Impactful Option on the Table
…Basically, the plan that staff are leaning toward is, again, to dump it on the beach at Samoa — a plan that some environmental activists don't like at all.But Miles Slattery…
HARDIN: Where Did Everybody Go?
…One Manhattan Beach investor told me that was his plan, anyway, but things didn't work out like that for him. Who is crazier, the tech billionaire who spends millions to buy…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: California Coastal Cleanup Day Stats! (PLUS: A Special Ocean Night!)
…clean beaches and waterways. Over 700 volunteers trekked shorelines and inland locations, picking up trash and debris at over 65 sites throughout the County, gathering over seven tons of trash during the…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: Humboldt! Your Beaches Need You For Coastal Cleanup Day!
…volunteers, over 400 people joined together to remove over seven tons of trash and recyclables from Humboldt’s beaches, rivers, bay and estuaries. Statewide, California picked up a total of 1,142…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: Visit the Three Humboldt Places That May Be Added to the California Coastal National Monument
…Often seeing trash lining our coast and wanting to involve the community, they decided to host a beach cleanup right next to an MPA. They chose the MPA that would be easiest…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: World Oceans Day is Today!
…Example script ( from worldoceansday.org): “For World Oceans Day I’m joining with others around the world in a wave for change to help keep plastic trash out of our ocean and…
OP-ED: Who Are the Zombies — The Homeless, or Us?
…I hate trash. I work in ocean advocacy, have for years, and much of my work involves getting garbage out of the ocean, off our beaches. My people are always cleaning up…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: This Dead Gray Whale is a Total Kook
…a State or County beach Celebrating Planet Earth.. AKA Planet Ocean Photo:Baykeeper Despite a drizzly morning, two dozen volunteers removed over 1,000 pounds of trash from Indian Island on Saturday…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: Go Look at Gray Whales (But Don’t Disturb the Snowy Plover)
…So people please, its simple enough, pack out your trash. Speaking of Trash on the Beach… Camp Clean and Save our Coast! Surfrider Humboldt is hosting their first annual “Camp and Clean…
(VIDEOS) Local Man Uses Spherical Camera Technology to Immerse Viewers in Humboldt’s Beauty
// This protected cove south of Trinidad Harbor has a diverse beach structure with sandy nooks, great agate patches, and multiple easy tidepooling locations.Enjoy this 360 immersive moment at a spot that…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: Dock Block Landing; PLUS: Your 2015 Ocean Highlights
…Coupled with efforts throughout the state and around the world, Coastal Cleanup Day makes a quantitive difference in how much trash enters our ocean. Clam Beach could still use some help being…
What To Do When Jerks In Trucks Harass Beachgoers
…Whatever your motivation for finding yourself on the shore, you're one of Humboldt County's many beach lovers. You nod at folks as you pass by, pick up random trash you…