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I have verified with the Tehama County Sheriff's Department, that the Festival planned for this weekend in Red Bluff will take place, as scheduled and without hassle from them....

Mendocino Redwood Company (MRC) is changing the way the company personnel drafts Timber Harvest Plans, and they’re looking for public input. The change would stream line the THP process with a property wide assessment of the land to base all THPs on. President Jim Holmes says much of the information in THP's is "redundant" and the process would be a cost and time saving measure. Next MRC will draft an 80 year overall all, timber management plan....

The release of juvenile salmon from Nimbus Fish Hatchery occurs at a time when Central Valley salmon are in their greatest crisis ever, due to a variety of factors led by increased water exports out of the California Delta in recent years. Only 39,530 adult fall chinook salmon returned to the Sacramento River and its tributaries in 2009, the lowest run on record, spurring the closure of ocean recreational and commercial fishing in 2008 and 2009. This photo shows the fish weir and fish lad...

A coalition of conservation organizations has vowed an "all out legal challenge" to defend Richardson Grove State Park from a Cal Trans highway widening project. “This is a statewide issue and anyone who cares about the redwoods, the integrity of our state parks, and the rural charm of Humboldt County should weigh in to overturn this project,” said Kerul Dyer, Richardson Grove campaign coordinator for the Environmental Protection Information Center. “The final environmental report is dis...

Photo: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chief prosecuting attorney of the Hudson Riverkeeper, walk proudly together at the Annual "Fisherman's Ball" where the Riverkeeper honored Arnold Schwarzenegger, the worst Governor for fish and the environment in California history, for his "environmental advocacy." By honoring Schwarzenegger, RFK. Jr. has lost all of his environmental credibility by shamefully greenwashing Schwarzenegger's war on salmon and other fish populati...

Rivers in the Klamath watershed are impaired by toxic algae, temperature, and nutrient pollution caused by dams, cattle grazing and irrigated agriculture. All of these problems are exacerbated by lack of adequate waterway flows....

“I was extremely disappointed by Wanger’s ruling,” said Zeke Grader, executive director of the Pacific Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA), one of the plaintiffs in the case. “It’s as if fish and fishing jobs and communities don’t count.”...

FOR THOSE WHO ARE WAITING FOR THE "MAGIC MOMENT" TO JUMP INTO THE SAVE RICHARDSON GROVE CAMPAIGN(SRG), THE TIME IS RIGHT NOW! CALTRANS MAY BE CUTTING TREES AT RICHARDSON GROVE STATE PARK AS YOU READ THIS CALL TO ACTION. A camp for all those interest in direct action will take place at the state park itself on May 28-30. Contact humboldtforestdefense@gmail.com for more info....

“We participated in good faith in the Forest Service’s collaborative process and we were assured that our sacred areas would be protected and our cultural values respected. It’s now obvious that those were hollow promises,” said Leaf Hillman, Natural Resources Director for the Karuk Tribe....

“It is ironic that some of the people for responsible for the destruction of ocean resources are the ones that are now telling us that we need to be stewards, even though we have been the stewards of the ocean for centuries,” said Nelson Pinola, chair of the Point Arena Pomo Rancheria. “We need to change this law.” Photo of tribal gathering at Danaka courtesy of Violet Wilder: woman in buckskin dress, Violet Parrish Chappell; in purple, Vivian Parrish Wilder; in pink jacket, Vana Parrish ...