The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA (https://mendovoice.com/tag/kelp-restoration/)
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.”
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.
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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.
