Trees got a good drink this week with all the ThunderBoomers rolling thru although the two days of ‘Flash Flood Watches’ turned out to be just a bit of rain for us – no gully washers, but up the road on Hwy 6 in Hammel Valley there were quite a few of those gully washers that took out a few...
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It is not bad enough to have 100 plus temperatures but now we have the added feature of fire along the Down River section of the Trinity. The good about the fire is that it is of low intensity and burning under story. I think that is about all that is left from the fires that happened several years ago....
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f the last couple days are any indication, we may have a strong finish to the salmon season out of Eureka. Since the opener June 29, the fishing — and subsequently the effort — have both been underwhelming. But things began to change Saturday. A couple charters and sport boats braved tough conditions and found some nice kings 5 miles...
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WOW – what a week! We went from a few boring weeks to WOW!!! There were some good thunderboomers and down-right down-pours that occurred last Monday causing a few mudslides down on Hwy 168 – 3 little slides – nothing like three years ago. (The Dodge car drove into the slide trying to get thru – DON’T DO THAT!) Took...
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Flowing right through the heart of Silicon Valley and the City of San Jose, Coyote Creek is probably not what most people would picture when thinking about habitat for steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss). But despite the significant change brought to the watershed through urban development, Coyote Creek is one of several streams meeting the southern end of San Francisco Bay that...
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MISSOULA, Mont. — Thanks to the strong conservation ethic and vision of a northern California landowner, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation is pleased to announce nearly 12,000 acres of tule elk habitat is now permanently protected and in the public’s hands.  The conservation transaction conserves critical forestlands from threats of conversion and builds upon the Eel River Peninsula Conservation Strategy to...
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