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YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: Let’s Be Thankful We Live Near the Ocean, Humboldt
…is important to prevent pollution and trash accumulation in the ocean. Effects of water pollution include; causing pathogens to concentrate in water resulting in beach closures, an oversupply of nutrients forming harmful…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: Tsunami Trash and Treasure; Doing the Bag Ban Battle All Over Again
…There are two opportunities to help the NEC with monitoring and beach cleanups this weekend: Saturday, Nov. 14 at 10 a.m.: Samoa beach (Power Poles) Humboldt County Sunday, Nov. 15, 10…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: Haunted Seas and Costumes Sure to Scare
…Don't insult our wonderful local brewers by turning their bottles into litter! And don't demean our beaches by trashing them. Pro tip: Brown bottles equal cash. Here's where to…
(UPDATED) YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: Photo Edition
…OSOM is a team of three sea kayakers with the goal of inspiring and motivating paddlers to pick up trash and litter when they find it. The Search for the Perfect Day…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: ‘Big Blue,’ Baby Birds, Buoys
…Awwww!!! Closer to home, researchers from Humboldt State University report threatened snowy plovers nesting on gravel bars raise more successful offspring than those utilizing sandy beaches – that factor was the single most…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: Kick Down, Clean Up
…In 2014, over 1,000 Humboldt County Coastal Cleanup Day volunteers removed over eight tons of trash and recyclables from our beaches, rivers, bay and estuaries – Coastal Cleanup Day makes a quantitative…
Your Week in Ocean: Pisaster Disaster, Critter Crawl, Fish Kill?
…What, you like trash on the beach?The Northcoast Environmental Center seeks site captains, teams, individual volunteers and sponsorships for this year's California Coastal Cleanup Day, which takes place Saturday, Sept…
Your Week in Ocean, Part Two: Shark Week, Coastal Cleanup, #EarthIsBlue
…Last year, over 1,000 Humboldt County Coastal Cleanup Day volunteers removed over 8 tons of trash and recyclables from our beaches, rivers, bay and estuaries. Coupled with efforts throughout the…
Humboldt Kids Assemble to Clean South Spit, Yank Invasives, Form Giant Sturgeon
Beach-bound bus brigade Wednesday, while you were toiling away at the cracker factory, Humboldt’s young were hanging around with their buds at the beach. This laze-about generation! We kid…
In Shelter Cove, Cultures Collide on Either End of a Disputed Coastal Trail
…I guess they thought there was trash service.” Since there isn't, Mitchell and a few of his friends decided to clean up the trash themselves. Last summer they gathered two full…
The Great Ladybug Washup
…We expected to find trash (we did), and we thought we might find debris from the 2011 Japan tsunami (we may have), but seeing hundreds and hundreds of ladybugs on the beach…
Being the Change: Zoe and Emma On Untrashing Humboldt
…A few weeks ago, the two were hiking along the south end of Centerville Beach when their casual beachcombing turned into a serious collecting of litter. "We noticed some trash and decided…
Your Week in Ocean: Champions of the Coast
…A happier Moonstone Beach. By PacOut Green Team. Could Liscom Slough catch a break? What about this spot suggests, "Here's a great place to throw your trash!"? We could say that…
2400 Pounds of Burned Butane Canisters and Other Trash Removed From Near Alderpoint Yesterday
…we lived down by Redway Beach. Sometimes, he pulled me in a little wagon and we'd go down to the parking lot and pick up trash. Now, I'm 27 with…
Your Week in Ocean: “It Was The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen”
…Most everyone agrees that trashing Humboldt's beaches, rivers, bay, wetlands and other waterways is a bad thing. But a vast divide lies between cleaning up after partiers, illegal dumpers and generally…
Trash Talking—How to Be Part of the Solution
…In the northern half of the county, PacOut Green Team has cleanup planned for Mad River Beach on October 18. Trash, particularly that found in homeless encampments, has become a public concern…
Humboldt Woman May Have Intentionally Driven Children off Cliff, Says Santa Rosa Newspaper
…According to Guy Casey, a former firefighter who was cleaning trash and debris from Blues Beach near the Chadbourne Gulch area north of Fort Bragg, the three family members were sent to…
Your Week in Ocean: Drought Workshop, Kayaking Nightmare, Marine Protected Areas Confab
…Californians (and all humans) have a right to clean beaches, a healthy ocean and directing our tax dollars toward issues other than cleaning up other people's trash. The plastic bag industry…
Bye, Bye, Bags
…Finally, all that work paid off! The Bag Monster, Arcata Plaza, April, 2012 PREVIOUSLY Humboldt County Beaches, Now With Less Trash Your Week in Ocean: The Ocean and You Supervisors Renew Contract…
Humboldt County Beaches, Now With Less Trash
Humboldt County Beaches, Now With Less Trash
Your Week in Ocean: UnTrashing The Beach
Come Sunday, expect cleaner beaches. This Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon, your friends, neighbors, coworkers, kids, students, maybe even you will take part in California Coastal Cleanup Day. Coordinated by…
Your Week in Ocean: Engage! Clean Up, Paddle Out, Solve the Drought
What began in Humboldt 35 years ago has grown into an international day of caring with hundreds of thousands of people collecting millions of tons of trash. Leaving the beach cleaner than…
Your Week in Ocean: The Ocean and You
…The beach needs you. Also, being near the ocean makes your brain smile. And in happy trash news, we should see less of it in the future, thanks to California finally passing…
Your Week in Ocean: Oh, Buoy! Plus Our Radioactive Ocean
…None of us like trash on the beach. We’ve talked about this. Please be happy to know that Coastal Cleanup Day is only one month away, but you still have time…
(UPDATES) Your Week in Ocean: More Dead Things, Live Things, Things to Do
…Help build a sea creature out of trash! Thursday, Aug. 7: Ocean Night! At Arcata Theatre Lounge, 6:30 p.m., showing Angel Azul and What the Sea Gives Me, featuring local…
Mind the Plovers
…In recent years, snowy plovers have nested at Gold Bluff Beach, Stone Lagoon, Big Lagoon, Little River State Beach, Clam Beach, Mad River Beach, Eel River Wildlife Area and Centerville Beach. But…
Your Week in Ocean: Not Completely Doomed
…This Saturday, it's a post-July 4 trash collection on the north end of Manila Beach. Details via the team's Facebook page. 'Coastal Currents' on vacation this week, Ocean Night…
Did A Tsunami Boat Wash Up?
…monitoring near the Ma-l'el Dunes on the beach adjacent to the Samoa State Marine Conservation Area. Says Savage: "Unfortunately trash on our coast is a regular occurrence, so we're…
Your Week(end) in Ocean: Oysters Gone Bad! Oregon Uses Protection! Go See Clowns on The Beach!
…This Saturday, meet at Pacific Outfitters and help PacOut Green Team tackle trash on the Samoa peninsula. Then from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the North Coast Learning Academy's…
Talking Trash: Samoa Peninsula Forum Today
…the beach, highway, bay and surrounding areas (with the occasional foray into Eureka). We'd like to help ensure they have supplies and a way to dispose of the trash without incurring…