Coastal Currents

The Humboldt Bay Harbor District has acquired the old pulp mill in Samoa. How much? Why? Jack Crider answers these questions and more.

This might be a Coastal Currents record: most content in least amount of time. Dip in!

Carol Vander Meer, Executive Director of Friends Of The Dunes joins us for Coastal Currents to talk about the upcoming Sand Sculpture event; Jessica Hall also discuss a recent meeting regarding the proposed East-West railroad.

Humboldt Bay Bald Eagle webcam! Monte Merrick, co-director of the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center, explains what happens when a male bald eagle brings a stick up to the nest.

Coastal Currents founding host Pete Nichols just got arrested in front of the White House protesting the Keystone Pipeline. He calls in after just having been sprung out.

The county suggests you avoid those Mussels, because you can get violently ill on the double.

Dave Feral (MRA) and Andrew Orahoske (EPIC) discuss some of the long-term challenges facing NoHum's main drinking-water source. Also, why are environmentalists asking us to power-use our tap water?

A plan is emerging to build an on-shore seafood ranch on the Samoa peninsula that aims to create jobs, take the pressure off our native fisheries, remove greenhouse gas from the air, and grow some vegetables. This is a real thing, and it's moving forward.

The National Weather Service is shedding arcane ocean-forecasting terminology for clearer, more useful nomenclature in its daily reports. Will mariners abide by the new changes? NWS' Troy Niccolini explains.

So, what's Mike Thompson's view on maybe exempting pesticide usage near public waterways from the Clean Water Act?

Also, and any chance we could maybe exempt logging road sediment from the Clean Water Act, too? Find out if Beth Werner can persuade a lazy DJ to write to Senator Boxer.