Position title: Communications Coordinator Position type: Full time, salary ($38-41K) + benefits Location: Arcata, California Application deadline: June 17, 2022 Are you an energetic and outgoing person who loves to work in teams? Do you have a love for nature and want to advocate for its protection? The Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) is looking to find the newest member of our team! EPIC has worked for the protection and restoration of Northern California

There’s been a lot of developments in the fight to Save Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF). So, we thought we’d give you all an update. First, CAL FIRE has announced that they definitely are rewriting the JDSF management plan 4 years early. This comes after continuous pressure from the public, some members of the Jackson Advisory Group, Senator McGuire, and Secretary Wade Crowfoot. This means the public will have the opportunity to weigh in on the forest’s future 4 ye

The Yurok Tribe, in partnership with Redwood National and State Parks, has made a huge stride in the recovery of Prey-go-neesh (California Condors). After years of careful planning and development of a comprehensive management plan for reintroduction, on May 4, 2022, two condors were released in their former range, which they have not inhabited since 1892. Condors provide critical ecosystem services in places where other large scavengers, such as grizzly bears and wolves, are

Over 60% of the North Coast Region is national forest land managed by the US Forest Service. Those public lands include the headwaters of most North Coast streams, often with extensive wet meadow ecosystems dominating the headwaters. Maintaining headwater wetlands in good condition is key to maintaining adequate flows for fish and good water quality in streams below the headwaters, as well as to reducing flood flows and damage. Unfortunately, each and every summer poorly mana

Take Action: Let the Forest Service know that this type of project needs an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Go to the bottom of this page for bullet points to include in your comments. Comments are due by May 11 and can be submitted here. The Forest Service is attempting its largest timber sale in modern history. Innocuously titled the “Region 5 Post-Disturbance Hazard Tree Project,” the project would allow logging of fire-affected trees—so-called “salvage logging”—near

Brown v Board of Education, Loving v Virginia, Obergefell v Hodges, these are the names of some of the most famous and consequential court cases in United States history. They all have something in common too. In each, the plaintiffs asked the courts to recognize a right in the Constitution that was not previously recognized. Youth v Gov., a documentary released on Friday on Netflix, is the story of another such case. It documents the struggle of the 21 youth plaintiffs who s

Wildfire season is fast approaching. So, we thought we’d take a look at some recent scientific articles that studied the causes and effects of wildfires in order to better understand these events. What do you think occurs more frequently: a fire igniting on forest service land and burning down nearby towns or a fire igniting on private lands and spreading onto forest service lands? Downing et al. (2022)[1] analyzed the ignition sources for all cross-boundary fires that burned