Marijuana, water & Code Enforcement In Shelter Cove : Cultures clashing on The Lost Coast
Tommy York’s home in Shelter Cove burned down in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve of 2009. Everyone made it out of the fire safely, but the house itself was a total loss. Before the flames consumed his home York was able to save two chainsaws, a leafblower, and a stack of art he had made. But that was all. "Everything else is still there," York said. That is how the site of the York family’s former home, 606 Redwood Road, ended up on a list of nuisance properties submitted to Humboldt County’s code enforcement unit by the Shelter Cove Resort Improvement District (RID). Four years later, what is left of his home is considered solid waste, and county code limits homeowners to 200 square feet of outdoor storage per property. |
No. 51: Activists look to establish state of jefferson in Norcal
Jefferson Statehood activists are courting Humboldt County for potential use of our deep-water port and four-year university -- and Mendocino hasn't even been invited. But as the only patch of blue within the proposed boundaries of what would otherwise be a very red state -- what's in it for Humboldt? Humboldt County was not originally a part of the 1941 push for a new state of Jefferson. Neither was Mendocino. Maps at the time included only four counties in California (Del Norte, Siskiyou, Lassen and Modoc) and Curry county on Oregon's south coast, but more recent iterations have spread out to encompass a total of 19 counties, including Humboldt. The movement toward independent statehood for parts of Northern California and Southern Oregon dates back to the 1850s, almost immediately after California was granted statehood... |
Mattole Canyon Creek: A sensitive watershed facing new threats after 30 years of restoration
It might be fair to argue that the secret ingredient in the Mattole Canyon Creek's restoration has been Gil Greggori and his family. More than 30 years ago, Gil bought acreage in the Mattole Canyon Creek watershed, and since then his family has built a homestead near the mouth of the creek where it runs into the main stem of the Mattole River. The before and after pictures speak for themselves. The Mattole Canyon Creek's delta used to be a moonscape of sediment and rock. Today, the flood plain is a well vegetated riparian zone with trees, shrubberies, and lush grass. But after all that time, money and hard work -- large scale marijuana gardens up-stream are bringing sediment, perlite, fertilizer run-off and illegal water pumps to a documented steelhead, coho and king salmon habitat. |
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