Thanks
for tuning-in to Coastal Zone CA! Our site endeavors to log the character
of coastal California’s natural and human history, as well as to highlight
the contributions of locals of the land doing great work and having fun. Please
check for regular updates. In the Zone
Interview we visit salt of the earth and hear their stories,
in the Real World we
examine pieces of the natural history of coastal California, and in Coastal
Roots we share a bit of California’s maritime history.
A BIG THANK YOU to the ultimate Zone Local - Zephyr Forest
- for constructing the Coastal Zone CA website!!
Yay for hi-tech teenagers!!
Enjoy (Photos by Rowena Forest unless otherwise noted)
Tule in Giacomni Marsh,
Point Reyes, CA
Rock wall of ancient fish pond, Molokai, HI
The Latest - Winter/Spring 2012
Coastal Zone CA has updates to our Real World, Coastal Roots, and Resources pages.. and a great new Zone Interview coming soon. Check it all out.
The next round of tours of Ed Ricketts’ historic Pacific Biological
Laboratories on Cannery Row in Monterey is set for Saturday, February 25th.
The Coastal Zone crew HIGHLY recommends seizing this rare opportunity to tour
the lab. It may make an Ed Head out of you. Here’s the announcement:
Make your reservations for the Cannery Row John Steinbeck Birthday PBL
Lab Tours by the Cannery Row Foundation. (set for Feb 25, 2012).. Just e-mail
us at tours@canneryrow.org with the time of the tour you'd like to be part
of (hourly tour from 9 AM until the last tour at 5 PM). We'll confirm your
reservation and have the Lab ready for another wondrous experience in Ed Ricketts'
Pacific Biological Laboratories.
Spread the word; bring your friends and family. See you at the Lab!
For "America's Most Famous Street"
Michael Hemp, President 2012
Cannery Row Foundation Board
(831) 659-2112
www.canneryrow.org
To follow up on our last edition of The Coastal Zone CA concerning the natural
history of the Napa Valley, here’s the latest heavy environmental impact
issue due to the march of vineyard monoculture in northern CA – brought
to our attention courtesy of Jake Sigg’s Nature News:
Tell the California Department of Forestry (CAL FIRE) to suspend certification
of Artesa
Winery's Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and allow public comment
on relevant changes in circumstances and impacts.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) allows, but does not require,
the lead agency to accept comments from the public on a Final EIR.. CAL FIRE
has announced that it intends to certify (approve) the Final EIR for Artesa's
project WITHOUT allowing the public to comment. We are asking them to slow
down and accept input from the public.
Public comment is needed now more than ever because of Sonoma County's brand-new
moratorium
on vineyard conversions and the urgent reasons for it -- all of which
are completely censored in the public record for Artesa! Your signature on
this petition to open the public record will make CAL FIRE confront the inconvenient
truth of the moratorium.
Even if you have already signed the previous petition generally opposing this
project at an earlier stage of the permit process, please take a few moments
to sign on to this critical, time-sensitive action. It is literally the last
chance to affect the final outcome of the permit process, which is on a fast
track to final approval
Read and sign the petition:
Stop Clear-cutting
Redwoods to Plant Vineyards
I’m finally reading Two Years Before the Mast –
Richard Henry Dana.. And I’m finally including it in the Coastal
Zone CA Resources page. Jeez. And I’m hooked! Go for it –
don’t be shy – it’s the best piece of 19th century maritime
literature you’ll ever come across - especially if you’re at all
interested in coastal California’s historic ecology, cultural history,
and maritime heritage. It’s a must. I’ll be updating the Coastal
Zone CA website with favorite ecological and cultural excerpts from Two Years
Before the Mast at a later date, but for now here’s a peek at California’s
earliest dog beach.. reminds me of Bolinas when I was a kid in the 70’s:
San Diego – Summer, 1834:
“…I ought, perhaps, to except the dogs, for convenience, were
left ashore, and there multiplied, until they came to be a great people. While
I was on the beach, the average number was about forty, and probably an equal,
or greater, number are drowned, or killed in some other way, every year. They
are very useful in guarding the beach.. for it was impossible for anyone to
get within half a mile of the hide houses without a general alarm. The father
of the colony, old Sachem, so called from the ship in which he was brought
out, died while I was there, full of years, and was honorably buried. Hogs
and a few chickens were the rest of the animal tribe, and formed, like the
dogs, a common company.. A quick, sharp bark from a coyote, and in an instant
every dog was at the height of his speed. A few minutes made up for an unfair
start, and gave each dog his right place. Welly, at the head, seemed almost
to skim over the bushes, and after him came Fanny, Feliciana, Childers, and
the other fleet ones – the spaniels and terriers; and then, behind followed
the heavy corps – bulldogs, etc, for we had every breed..”
Go see The Descendants. Highly recommended by us, and most Hawaii residents I’ve heard from about it. -r
-Rowena, and the Coastal Zone CA crew
Photos P. Pyle
Ferndale with CA Indian Basket, 2005
