But as a large crowd in Fort Bragg learned Sunday, the swim delivers a message of conservation and connection between coastal communities.
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Woman swimming California Coast coming to Fort Bragg to give talk
Swimmer making her way down California’s Coast will stop in Fort Bragg.
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The predator we lost may return — and the kelp is betting on it
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.
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Urchin-smashing off to strong start this year with 30 recreational divers at Caspar Cove
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.”
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Urchin diver spots another sunflower sea star north of Noyo Harbor
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.