Regenerative farming collective Sun+Earth received $395,643 from the Department of Fish and Wildlife, while $1.3 million went to the Mendocino County Resource Conservation District to support cultivators’ water conservation efforts.
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Posted inEnvironment & Natural Resources
Hope for kelp on the Mendocino Coast: landmark restoration report shows regrowth after urchin removal
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.
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Whale entanglements prompt CDFW to close North Coast commercial dungeness crab fishery early
The Lost and Abandoned Gear Removal Program will start pulling crab traps out of the waters off of Humboldt and Mendocino counties April 27.
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Mountain lion attack at Boonville FFA farm prompts concerns over student safety
“I will not be the superintendent that has a student killed in an outdoor classroom,” Anderson Valley Unified School District Superintendent Louise Simson told the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors during public comment last week.
Posted inBusiness & Labor
Dungeness crab season is officially open with new regulations to limit whale entanglements
Dungeness crab season officially started on Saturday, but with some new regulations intended to limit the marine life that ends up entangled in fishing gear.