Lightning sparks more than 100 fires in Humboldt
By admin | June 23, 2008
More than 100 lightning-sparked fires burned in Humboldt, Del Norte and portions of Trinity counties Sunday as firefighters struggled to contain them with limited resources on difficult terrain.
Governor Schwarzenegger Sunday ordered the California National Guard to assist in combating the wildfires that are currently burning in Northern California.
The largest fire in the region, encompassing steep hills in the Pacific Ridge area, spread rapidly Sunday, growing from about 120 acres to more than 500 acres. Cal Fire spokesman Joe Fassier said the inferno was only five percent contained by Sunday evening. Large plumes of smoke billowed into nearby Shelter Cove. So far, no evacuations have been ordered.
A number of other reports of fire sent crews from Cal Fire, Six Rivers National Forest and various local and volunteer fire departments to remote corners of the North Coast. Palco and Green Diamond Resource Company worked with Cal Fire to locate and contain fires on their properties.
Full Article at Times Standard.
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Bettys weott Garden.
By admin | June 20, 2008
Betty and Charlie Thomas live in a house they built themselves, from the foundation to the roof. They bought the 240 acres of land in 1954, just before the flood. They had been living in Myers Flat in the flood plain and would have been wiped out had they not moved. They purchased the property from Charlie’s uncle for $20,000, and it was a close thing as to whether they could afford it or not. At that time, $20,000 was a lot of money. ”We made a good investment,” she says.
The house sits high on a mountain above Weott and the view is spectacular in all directions. It was once the site of the split products camp owned by the Newtons. There were cabins, a cookhouse, and a thriving industry turning out railroad ties, fence posts, and such items. Her late father worked at the Newton camp long before he met her mother and the family settled in Healdsburg where Betty was born. The property has some redwood stumps of significant proportions and when Betty’s father came to visit them, he remembered which ones he had helped fell back in the day when logging was booming.
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Weott Community Center Upgrades
By admin | May 18, 2008
The Weott Community Services District is proud to announce the completion of Phase I of the renovation of the Weott Community Center known as Milligan Hall.
Thanks to the generosity of the Andrew & Bertha Pon Memorial Fund and the Handicapped Persons Assistance Fund, both funds of the Humboldt Area Foundation, a $6,500 grant was secured to construct a handicap ramp and entrance for Milligan Hall.
Milligan Hall was acquired by the Weott Community Services District when the American Legion Post 724 disbanded. The building has a long local history as it was built in 1925 and served for many years as the Weott School. It was acquired by the American Legion Post from the Southern Humboldt Unified School District and was subsequently deeded to the Community Services District.
It is the objective of the Community Services District to preserve and improve the structure to serve as an office for the Community Services District, a meeting place for the Community, an emergency shelter in case of natural disasters and a venue that could be rented for social events and thus produce income for the District.
Future improvements will include an emergency exit from the second floor of the structure, a renovation of office space
for the District’s administration needs, a new roof, ADA bathroom upgrades, a commercial kitchen, and interior and exterior painting and landscaping.
The Board of Directors of the Weott Community Service District wishes to thank the Humboldt Area Foundation for its assistance in obtaining this grant and encourages all members of the Weott Community to assist in our efforts to provide a community meeting place. Since the time of the 1964 flood, which destroyed the entire downtown of Weott, there has been no Community Center for use of the residents of Weott.
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Meetings will discuss future of Usal redwood forest
By admin | April 15, 2008
Meetings will discuss future of Usal redwood forest
Article by Redwood Times -
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Many of you will have heard about last summer’s purchase of the Usal redwood forest north of Ft. Bragg by the Redwood Forest Foundation Inc. (RFFI). RFFI is a non-profit organization founded ten years ago as an effort to overcome the divisiveness of the timber wars and to acquire depleted forestland and apply a community-based model of sustainable high-quality forestry. Environmentalists, forest restoration workers, and professional foresters came together with logging industry representatives, UC advisors, community members, and landowners and drew up guidelines for sustainable forestry that would benefit biodiversity and the health of the forests, as well as continue to provide long-term employment for wood-working communities.
RFFI’s ideas are now being put to the test on the 50,000 acre Usal redwood forest: most of the area between the coast and the South Fork Eel River, from near Piercy to a bit south of Leggett. Because RFFI defines its vision as establishing community-based working forests, we are inviting local communities to come to two talks - on Tuesday, April 22 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Mateel Community Center in Redway, and on Saturday, April 26, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Ft. Bragg Town Hall.
To learn more about the purchase agreement, easement and management plans, and RFFI’s intentions for the future of the area. Your input is welcome and encouraged.
Help decide how this forest will become an essential long-term resource for the people of California’s Redwood Region.
For more information please visit there website: http://www.rffi.org/
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Eel River Cleanup Crew
By admin | March 18, 2008
 
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As many residents of Southern Humboldt may know there is various illigal dump sites around our county many created by homeless camps along the Eel River. Luckily a group of concerned citizens has gotten together to create the “Eel River Cleanup Crew” who’s stated goal is to help clean the garbage from along the eel river and setup an example for other communitys to follow. |
Here is a statement from their website.
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The Problem: Thousands of tons of garbage are piling up along the Riverbeds of the Eel River and creeks of Southern Humboldt. The Garbage is partially household garbage, illegally dumped to bypass paying dumping fees, but the majority of the trash is from homeless camps, scattered up and down the banks of the Eel. The county is not cleaning the garbage up. The law enforcement is not issuing littering citations. Dumping fees are not being compensated. What We Are Doing: How You Can Help:
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For more information please visit their website: http://www.eelrivercleanup.org/
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New Re-Designed Image Gallery
By admin | March 18, 2008
We have uploaded over 80 new images to our photo gallery. The look and navigation of the photo gallery has been re-done to include an image map of the avenue of the giants area! If you would like to submit some images please Contact Us!
Check out the Photo Gallery now!
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Public meeting to meet 2nd district candidate
By admin | March 5, 2008
Clif Clendeded running for 2nd district supervisor will be meeting publicly at the Weott Community Center (175 Lum Street, Weott CA.) on Thursday, March 13th from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. To meet with local residents to discuss their views. There will be free refreshments with cider and pastries. Admission is free but donations will be accepted. There will be Voter and Absentee registrations available. This is your chance to meet and talk directly with Clif Clendenen. For more information contact Barbara Kennedy at 946-2248 for more details.
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Clendenen and SHEL talk about a sustainable humboldt.
By admin | March 5, 2008
Supervisor candidate Clif Clendenen and the members of the Southern Humboldt Economic Localization group shared their thoughts on how to bring about a sustainable future for Humboldt County on Wednesday, February 27.
Clendenen had asked to be invited to the SHEL meeting to learn more about the group. He started out by saying that he believes in local agriculture.
”Just by vocation,” he said, “I am interested in growing local food.”
Clendenen’s apples are marketed in the county and he sells fresh, un-pasteurized apple juice from his Fortuna store. He said that it’s been shown that something produced locally and sold locally has a ripple effect through the local economy. He also believes that rising energy costs will drive the effort to localization because it will become too expensive to import.
”It seems like there are two movements going on simultaneously,” Clendenen said. He said the push to build a container port in Eureka is part of the globalization movement, but businesses like Humboldt Creamery represented the push to localization. He said also that he thinks there will continue to be an interplay between import and export, but that “in the 30 years
Read full article at Redwood Times
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Albino Redwoods
By admin | February 27, 2008
At first sight, you may not quite believe your eyes. From a distance, these trees look like young redwoods flocked with snow or frost. Yet as you get closer, you realize that the white tint is not snow, but that the tree itself is white. These white redwood trees are rare albinos, also called “ghost trees.” One of the biggest, a 30-footer that is one of the easier specimens to find, is called the “Christmas Tree.” It’s also one of the prettiest. Albino redwoods do not have pigmentation, similar to albino wildlife. So their needles are white, not green. About 50 albino redwoods are believed to exist, from trees that resemble little clumps to 70-footers. No other albino conifers are believed to have been found that have survived into maturity. Other trees do spawn an albino specimen, but it’s rare and does not survive long. These unusual redwoods weave their root systems into that of other redwoods and tap into their food supply. They cannot provide their own food since they lack chlorophyll that converts sunlight and water into food, but they have adapted to take what they need from other redwoods. That is why they are always found growing next to a host. Other trees, such as an apple tree, on the other hand, do not have the ability to interlink their root systems with others. Six albinos are located in Humboldt Redwoods State Park in the Redwood Empire on the Northern California coast near Highway 101 in Humboldt County.
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Cal Fire proposes closing station, conservation camp
By admin | February 27, 2008
To meet state demands for a 10 percent budget cut in the 2008-09 fiscal year, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has proposed closing the High Rock Conservation Camp in Weott and the Elk Camp Station near Orick. Statewide, Cal Fire proposed closing 11 conservation camps, 20 one-engine stations and one helitack station, according to Cal Fire Public Information Officer Daniel Berlant. Cal Fire operates correctional camps in conjunction with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. There are more than 100 low-risk prison inmates at High Rock. They provide community service as cleanup crews or emergency responders during fires. Cal Fire has 14 employees at High Rock who manage the five inmate crews. There are nine CDCR employees, said Fred Flores, Cal Fire chief of operations for the Humboldt-Del Norte Unit.
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