After 43 years of continuous pesticide pollution of the Smith River estuary, the California State Water Board voted to adopt the Waste Discharge Requirements for Lily Bulb Cultivation in the Smith River Plain (the Lily Bulb Order) and certify the Final Environmental Impact Report for the cultivation permit. via North Coast Regional Water Board For context, over the past several decades, 90% of the world's Easter lily bulbs have been grown in the land surrounding the mouth of

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently released their draft “Pacific Marten Recovery Plan.” The draft Plan is incomplete and inadequate to provide for the recovery of the marten (which EPIC usually calls the “Humboldt marten;”; others sometimes call the species the “coastal marten ”).