The Six Rivers National Forest is back with another logging proposal in the Eel River Late-Successional Reserve (LSR), and this time it wants to skip full public review. The Bucktail Vegetation Management Project covers a 14,400-acre planning area on the Mad River Ranger District, south of Dinsmore between Highway 36 and Van Duzen Road, next to the Mount Lassic Wilderness. These older forests are also in designated Critical Habitat for northern spotted owls

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The Scott and Shasta Rivers are critical salmon watersheds, including habitat for threatened coho salmon. But both rivers have suffered from serious water-quality problems for decades. The Scott River is listed as impaired by excessive temperatures, sediment, and biostimulatory conditions, while the Shasta River is impaired by excessive temperatures and low dissolved oxygen. Hot water, sediment, and low oxygen can make it difficult for salmon to survive, particularly during t

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.