Imagine taking a 5-acre piece of hillside in a watershed surrounding Humboldt Bay, removing all of the trees and topsoil down to bare dirt and rock, exposing it to year after year of winter rains, and then expecting downstream neighbors and Humboldt County residents to believe “it’ll be fine.” That’s what the county supervisors and the Schneider quarry operators are asking us to do.
Read the full article in the Eureka Times-Standard by CalTrout’s North Coast manager, Darren Mierau.