Tannery Gulch Campground could look very different by fall. Last week, EPIC joined Forest Service staff; members of the Trinity County Collaborative; Trinity RCD; and about a dozen concerned campers, including a camp host with her two children, who's worked there for 15 years; and campers who've been coming for more than 50 years and have spent every summer of their lives here with their whole family. At one point, standing near one of the marked trees, the camp host told the

Biophilic urbanism is a transformative city design framework that embeds nature, natural systems, and green infrastructure directly into everyday urban spaces. Instead of isolating nature within parks, this approach embeds living ecosystems directly into homes and workplaces using green roofs, wildlife corridors, and urban forests.

Recent news about a Southern California water agency interested in taking over the Potter Valley Project has many of us distracted, but not the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Two meetings are scheduled for Tuesday, September 15th from 6-8 pm and Wednesday, September 16th from 9-11 am at the Wharfinger Building (1 Marina Way) in Eureka, CA.

AB 2494 (Rogers) updates decades-old management objectives for California's demonstration state forests, including the addition of "durable onsite carbon storage and sequestration" (DOCSS) as a co-equal objective alongside biodiversity, wildfire resilience, recreation, and other public benefits.

Donald Trump hates offshore wind energy. Ever since the Scottish government decided to build offshore wind turbines off the coast of a golf course he owns, he’s had a vendetta against the industry. So, on his very first day in office in January 2025 he issued a presidential memorandum attacking the offshore wind industry.

The Scott and Shasta Rivers are two of the Klamath Basin's most important salmon strongholds. As flows trickle below minimum standards in the Scott and salmon populations decline below depensation thresholds in the Shasta, the North Coast Water Board is considering another five-year extension of a temporary water-quality program.

On June 26th, the Trump Administration published in the federal register a notice of formal review of California's Coastal Management Program under the federal Coastal Zone Management Act.