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The Smith River
needs your help. Agricultural operations along the estuary are
polluting the river with high levels of pesticides. This pesticide
pollution is impacting coho salmon, tidewater goby and other wildlife
that rely on the river, as well as the human residents that live
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Greg King is the President and Executive Director of the Siskiyou Land Conservancy and has been credited with spearheading the movement to protect Headwaters Forest, in Humboldt County, California. King initiated the “redwood wars” following the notorious 1985 takeover of the venerable Pacific Lumber Company by the Houston energy and real estate conglomerate Maxxam. This excerpt comes from his book The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals and Real Estate in the California Redwoods was published by
Existing greenhouses at Sun Valley Floral Farms in Arcata. | Photo by Andrew Goff.
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After more than 50 years growing irises, tulips and lilies in the fertile farmland of the Arcata Bottoms, the owners of Sun Valley Floral Farms are preparing to leap headlong into the commercial cannabis industry with the construction of a 23-acre hoop house operation that would rank among the largest legal weed grows in North America.
The plans laid out in a 95-page initial study, published in December, call for 193 temperature-controlled hoop house-style greenhouses spread over 1 million square feet (22.96 acres), plus office/administration buildings, a propagation facility, stormwater detention basins, a new wastewater treatment system and a 66-space asphalt/concrete parking lot.