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.
Environment & Natural Resources
Fort Bragg diver spots critically endangered sunflower sea star, “the natural predator we need”
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A Solstice Sea Star Search will run from Dec. 20-23, a well-timed followup to this “major win.”
abalone
Noyo Center opens Slack Tide Café for coffee, pastries, and learning in the harbor
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Try learning about marine life while grabbing a drink against the backdrop of a working harbor: “You can’t get that at Starbucks.”
