2010 was a difficult year for most people I know, and for me personally. I was sick, our car was stolen right out of our driveway, I lost a beloved cat to illness, I had unexpected (and unentertaining) expenses, work has been very slow, etc. I stopped writing on my blog early in the year, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘natural resources’
Kicking off a new decade
Posted in Personal, site, work, tagged ceqa, economy, engineering, environment, impacts, local, natural resources, nepa, water quality, work on 1 January, 2011 | 1 Comment »
February 2010 Job Openings
Posted in employment, local, work, tagged activism, california, Career, ceqa, engineering, humboldt, jobs, lab, mendocino, natural resources, shasta on 3 February, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This month’s job openings at SHN Consulting Engineers & Geologists, Inc.: Consulting Biologist (CEQA Expert) (Eureka) Materials Testing Laboratory Manager (Willits) Mid-level Civil Engineer, California PE (Willits) Senior-level Civil Engineer, California PE (Redding) Temporary Field Botanist/Wildlife Biologist (Eureka) Good positions, good benefits, fun company to work for, great co-workers, wonderful area to live in.
GPU “town hall” meeting on Thursday
Posted in current events, local, tagged california, humboldt, landscape, local, management, natural resources, planning, politics on 28 April, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Humboldt County General Plan Update news: notice received Monday from the Planning Division of Humboldt County Community Development Services: Housing Element “Town Hall Style” Planning Commission Meeting Humboldt County Draft General Plan — Land Use Element April 30, 2009 The Humboldt County Planning Commission will host an informal public workshop on the Draft Land Use [...]
Animal or vegetable
Posted in environment, nature, science, tagged birds, database, fisheries, google earth, natural resources, plants, science, software, species, tools on 20 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are a few sites I want to gush about, as educational resources, as entertainment, and as serious technical and scientific resources. Not only can they be used in the classroom, or browsed for the sheer enchantment of discovery, but they are pure gold for for professionals in the environmental fields as well. NatureServe Explorer [...]
Godwit Days next week
Posted in environment, local, tagged birds, california, environment, events, humboldt, local, natural resources on 10 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Godwit Days will be upon us April 16 to 22 — a week of birding and art in and around Arcata. The marbled godwits arrived a little while ago already, along with American avocets, black oystercatchers, willets, several kind of plovers, etc. Birding has been good at the Arcata Marsh and along the shores of [...]
Plan Alternatives for the Humboldt County 2009 Draft General Plan — Continued
Posted in current events, local, tagged california, humboldt, landscape, local, management, natural resources, planning on 3 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Humboldt County General Plan Update is marching ever onward. Notice received Thursday from the Planning Division of Humboldt County Community Development Services: Notice of Release Release of the Plan Alternatives for the Humboldt County 2009 Draft General Plan April 2, 2009 The Key Issues and Plan Alternatives Comparison Charts for the draft General Plan [...]
U.S. House approves funds for dredging Crescent City harbour
Posted in current events, environment, local, tagged california, environment, impacts, local, natural resources, transportation on 2 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Crescent City Daily Triplicate announced on Saturday that an appropriations bill that just passed the U.S. House of Representatives included $1.6 million for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to dredge Crescent City’s harbour. The bill stills needs to pass the Senate vote and be signed by President Obama before the Corps officially gets [...]
Wild fires: Australia and California compared
Posted in current events, environment, tagged california, climate, landscape, management, natural resources on 26 February, 2009 | 1 Comment »
An interesting article on Science Blog today entitled “Why California should consider Australia’s ‘prepare, stay and defend’ wildfire policy”. It compares and contrasts the Australian “Prepare, stay and defend, or leave early” policy with California’s policy of mandatory evacuations followed by fire suppression. There is no magic one-size-fits-all to fighting wild fires, but it’s useful [...]
The CCC lives on — for now
Posted in current events, environment, tagged activism, california, economy, management, natural resources on 23 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
During the last couple of weeks’ worth of budget battles in this state, the California Conservation Corps came really close to extinction. This morning, I received the following message from the ad-hoc grassroots organization Save-the-CCC: Last Friday, Governor Schwarzenegger signed an historic budget package to solve California’s $42 billion deficit and move California forward from [...]
Act today to save the CCC
Posted in current events, environment, tagged activism, california, economy, environment, excellence, management, natural resources, politics on 12 February, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Remember last week when we talked about Governor Schwarzenegger’s decision to close the California Conservation Corps? The grassroots organization Save-the-CCC has started a letter campaign to protest the proposal. But even if you’ve already sent a letter, they need your additional help immediately: The governor and four legislative leaders are working behind closed doors to [...]
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