What it s like to hike 100 feet off the ground in a California redwood forest
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Two visitors peer into the canopy.Courtesy of ELA/Amy Kumler
On a pathway suspended 100 feet above the forest floor in the Sequoia Park Zoo’s new Redwood Sky Walk attraction, two women are studying an enormous, knobby growth on the side of a redwood tree.
“It’s different to see a burl this close,” Lynn Leger says to her longtime friend Arlene Harten. “It’s so gnarly, literally.”
Leger’s a Eureka resident who has been volunteering at the zoo for 20 years, and Harten a former Caltrans personnel officer has been a member at the zoo since the membership program started.
Posted By Linda Stansberry@lcstansberry on Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 1:00 PM click to enlarge A marathon special meeting of the Eureka City Council, stretching from 7 until 11:30 p.m., resulted in the council voting 3 to 2 in favor of a resolution temporarily prohibiting all syringe exchange services within city limits, with councilmembers Natalie Arroyo and Leslie Castellano dissenting. The wording of the resolution is tangled, stating that the city “supports” syringe exchange programs but nevertheless, “the City of Eureka needs to temporarily prohibit SEPs starting on December 16, 2020, until an ordinance is established, subject to review under the California Environmental Quality Act.” “I feel sick to my stomach,” said councilmember Austin Allison as the matter came to a vote. “I feel awful that we’ve come to this place. Harm reduction saves lives …but, yeah