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Litter ‘Still a Big Problem’: Caltrans Picks Up Trash
…Litter is not only ugly; it can lead to pollution in our lakes, rivers, and beaches. Cigarette butts are the number one item littered in California — they are discarded by the millions…
Your Week in Ocean: Beautify Your Beaches, Happify At A Hoedown
Spotlighting beach trash Yesterday I interviewed Angela Haseltine Pozzi, founder of Washed Ashore, a project dedicated to saving the ocean through creating art out of marine debris. One of the key experiences…
Homeless “Bunkers” Found During Routine Beach Cleanup
…What pictures you didn't see were the three 20 x 20 areas with trash that were around the bunkers. Needles, porn magazines, porn DVD's, w's clothing (underwear, nighties, etc…
Your Week in Ocean: Fecal Matters, Whales and Birds
…PacOut Green Team still cleaning up Pacific Outfitters' effort to rid Humboldt County beaches of trash continues every Saturday. Join the weekly event on a regular basis or as you're able…
Your Week in Ocean, Part Two: Pack Your Bags, Take a Walk, Admire the Improved Call Box
…How about that tsunami warning test? Did you hear anything? Did it prompt you to finally get that emergency kit ready? Concerned about highway trash getting into the bay and ocean? Join…
Your Week in Ocean: Trash, Trash and More Trash
…A not-uncommon sight on beaches local and global – plastic beverage bottle are consistently in the most littered items in the world according to Coastal Cleanup data. Trash collected on a two…
MATTHEW IN THE MIDDLE: Humboldt Honeys With Dope Douchebags
…We have our own version here in Humboldt County called “Humboldt Honeys with Dope Douchebags.” Typically this occurs at Costco where Dope Douchebag (“Double D-bag”), looking like a white trash version…
Coastal Cleanup Among the Homeless
…The mission was the same, picking trash off the ground to prevent it from washing or blowing into the water and further polluting the ocean, but instead of the beach, we scoured…
This Week in Ocean: Sharks Return and so Does Coastal Cleanup Day
…Now I realized recently that some folks, surprisingly, are pro trash, but for those who prefer a cleaner ocean, safer beaches and a more beautiful world, here's a couple excellent opportunities…
This Week in Ocean: Volunteer, Visit and Vote
…sends you to the beach, remember, the ocean is still a cold (albeit slightly warmer) and dangerous place. The swell's picking up. Don't leave your trash and don't turn…
This Week in Ocean, Part One: The Scourge of Mad River Beach Parties
…It's easy! Trashing our beaches are for losers. Don't be that. Love, Jennifer Savage Chairperson, Surfrider Foundation Humboldt Chapter P.S. Want to be even further on the side of…
This Week in Ocean: Sand Wars, Debris Debriefing
…The NEC and OC will also be combing the beach for tsunami debris and “regular” trash this weekend. In collaboration with the California Coastal Commission, the NEC hosts two Japan Tsunami Debris…
This Week in Ocean, Part Two: Make the Most of The Weekend
…What other kinds of trash show up most often on our beaches? Results from last year's International Coastal Cleanup (organized by Ocean Conservancy on the grand scale and coordinated locally by…
This Week in Ocean: Plastic Bags (Literally), MPA Monitoring Update, Whale Sightings!
…Top 5 list of Things Found On The Beach That Are Not Actually A Natural Part Of The Beach And Are In Fact Trash. How amazingly consistent is that?! And they're…
This Week in Ocean: Tsunami Debris Hits Cali, Samoa Litterbugs on Notice, Fish Mgmt Moves Into Future
…The dunes and beach? Beautiful. The plastic trash? Not so much. Opportunities to explore and clean up abound. Speaking of the peninsula, Friends of the Dunes wants you to visit the Humboldt…
Dunes or Garbage Dump? Some People Can’t Tell the Difference
…the answer will be included in a future guide for how to handle finding trash on the beach. This is exactly where most people would opt to chuck their empty cups and…
Trash on the Beach Sucks: Humboldt Surfrider Kicks Off Anti-Dumping Campaign Tonight
…Everyone who is tired of trash being dumped on the beach is welcome to join. (Anyone who prefers trash being dumped on the beach is also welcome.) More info about Humboldt Surfrider…
This Week in Ocean: Get Trashed!
…The first elephant seal opted to leave the North Jetty, likely due to all the noise and traffic, but as of yesterday, we have another individual who beached himself in the same…
This Week in Ocean: Lots to Look At
…We're lucky here on the North Coast, but we have our problems — when's the last time you visited the beach and didn't find trash? — and what happens around the…
This Week in Ocean (and Dunes and Marsh)
…Finally, if you're out on the Samoa peninsula and find trash, Humboldt Surfrider would like you to document it (and then clean it up!) — please email photos to humboldt@surfrider.org…
U.S. Fish & Wildlife: Save the Plovers, Kill the Ravens
…The status of plovers as a federally listed endangered species infuriates a certain segment of recreational beach users – those with horses and/or 4-wheel drives – for interfering with what’s viewed…
So Much Ocean: Tsunami Debris, Coastal Cleanup, Surf 4 Peace, Coasties are Awesome
Rope is super useful, except when it's trash. Help clean up the beaches this Saturday, Sept. 15 as part of the International Coastal Cleanup. If you’ve been to the beach…
Medical Marijuana Growers Diss Feds for Cracking Down on Dispensaries and Not Focusing on Illegal Grows on Public Lands
…in cannabis cultivation – namely the illicit grows on public lands that we’ve known are trashing habitat and depleting our water, and now we know they also are killing the California fisher…
Has the Tsunami Debris Finally Arrived on Humboldt Shores?
…At Mad River Beach. In the form of the thing above — a soda pop bottle, perhaps? But don't freak, please, because it's not likely to be any more radioactive than…
Ocean Optimism: 5 Things to Give You Hope
…I totally spaced the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (and all the other trash-riddled gyres). I never once thought about dying coral or whales entangled in discarded fishing gear or dolphins washing…
Grab Some Butts! (and Other Beach Trash) for Earth Day
Grab Some Butts! (and Other Beach Trash) for Earth Day
Japan’s Tsunami Debris and Working toward Trash Free Seas
…She also recommended handling suspected tsunami debris just like any other trash on the beach – by removing it if possible. Fears about radiation can be set aside, Yender explained, as the debris…
Mysteries of the Deep, Cool. Mystery on Your Plate, Not So Much.
…As someone often found on the beach – walking my sweet old dog, considering the waves, plucking up plastic bags and other trash along the waveslope – I’m often asked about the Japanese…
This Week’s Beach and Bay To-Do List
…Also, the film has won bunches of awards including Best Action Sports Film at the Newport Beach Film Festival 2008, Best Independent Film at the Huntington Beach Surf Film Festival 2008, Best…
Read This, Then Go Outside
…Already the sun is setting before 5 p.m., making an after-work head-clearing, soul-soothing stroll on the beach nearly impossible. Which is why I am formally encouraging you to…