Five years of hand-culling urchins pulled Mendocino’s kelp back at a handful of sites, but the real wager is on a returning sea star.
Category: Environment & Natural Resources
News about the environment and natural resources in Mendocino County and the broader North Coast.
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The Point Arena mountain beaver is running out of fog
Ancient, coal-black, found nowhere else, this animal is on the brink.
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Gates-backed startup quietly mapped Lake County for hydrogen
But whether the gas down there is in useful amounts remains a question.
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Why June belongs to Juno — and to every couple on the Mendocino headlands
Don’t worry: the fog will burn off by midday…late afternoon…evening?
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On the Eel River, the most hated fish is a California native — but a stranger nonetheless
A predator dumped into the river in 1979 is enemy No. 1 to the Eel’s salmon. One ridge over, the same fish is a local.