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Environment & Natural Resources

Urchin-smashing off to strong start this year with 30 recreational divers at Caspar Cove

By Kate Fishman | May 3, 2023

Divers taking a hammer to purple urchin is just one piece of the goal to bring back the bull kelp: “We’re still struggling to acquire multi-year funding for restoration work at large.”

Environment & Natural Resources

Urchin diver spots another sunflower sea star north of Noyo Harbor

By Kate Fishman | April 5, 2023

The pycnopodia sighting brought “a bit of hope to a gloomy situation,” as diver Grant Downie said he’s been discouraged by low kelp numbers and not many viable red urchins.

Bull Kelp

Drones map kelp on the North Coast with “game-changing” tech that takes minutes, not months

By Kate Fishman | September 26, 2022

“We have limited time and conservation dollars, so we want to be as data-driven as possible.”

Bull Kelp

Hope for kelp on the Mendocino Coast: landmark restoration report shows regrowth after urchin removal

By Kate Fishman | July 8, 2022

Despite a long road ahead and a purple seafloor, nearly two years of hard work and grant money have shown that clearing purple urchin by hand could help bring back Northern California’s bull kelp forests.

Bull Kelp

Purple urchin has overrun kelp forests, commercial divers and conservationists have have joined forces to restore the North Coast’s marine ecosystem

By Lana Cohen, Staff Reporter | August 12, 2020

The North Coast has lost more than 90% of it’s bull kelp from the ocean due to climate change and the massive influx of purple urchin. Last Tuesday, kelp restoration efforts got underway when nonprofit Reef Check sent down two divers to collect as many purple urchin as they could from the ocean floor.

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