Legacy chemicals may restrict future uses of the site. A recent public meeting and a field trip tackled the issues and the potential.
Category: Environment & Natural Resources
News about the environment and natural resources in Mendocino County and the broader North Coast.
Posted inEnvironment & Natural Resources
UC’s Hopland Research and Extension Center celebrates 75 years
May 17 event offers walking tours, research talks with scientists, and a look at the center’s 200 breeding ewes.
Posted inEnvironment & Natural Resources
The best thing for birds in your Mendocino yard isn’t a plant
Set the seed catalog down for a minute and think about water.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
McNear: Mendocino’s unique pygmy forests remain thanks to one enterprising woman
Charlotte Hoak loved nature — and her heart stayed in the redwoods no matter where she lived.
Posted inEnvironment & Natural Resources
Male coyote swam 2 miles to Alcatraz Island, twice as far as biologists had expected
Biologists thought it swam from San Francisco, about a mile away. But DNA analysis revealed it came from Angel Island, twice the distance.