Environment & Natural Resources
UrchinFest returns to Mendocino coast with celebration of uni, ecosystem education
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Events the weekend of June 16 include tide pooling, sake tasting, and the chance to try your hand at diving for urchin.
Environment & Natural Resources
Urchin-smashing off to strong start this year with 30 recreational divers at Caspar Cove
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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
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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
Hope for kelp on the Mendocino Coast: landmark restoration report shows regrowth after urchin removal
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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.
Arts & Culture
Organizers ‘delighted’ following Mendocino’s purple urchin festival, the first of its kind in the U.S.
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“We need to learn to eat what’s bountiful and available, and not always just want that same piece of salmon,” said MendoParks board member Cally Dym after UniFest, a marriage of culinary arts and sustainability education.
