Environment

The Hoopa Valley Tribal Council met for their regularly scheduled meeting Thursday, May 3 at 5:30 pm. After two hours in closed session, the council made a public motion to move the management of the Tribe’s website from the Chairman’s assistant to the Two Rivers Tribune. Read More →

Is it time? That’s the big question in the spring garden. Is it time to rototill, is it time to plant this or that? These are the burning existential questions on every gardener’s mind these days. I’m not one to jump the gun and in most years I caution folks to wait until at least Mother’s Day if not Memorial Day before putting in their precious tomatoes and peppers, melons, summer and winter squashes, cukes, beans and corn. This years feels different though, I can’t explain it in any rational terms I just get the feeling the time is now. Read More →

In summer 2011 the Hoopa Tribal EPA completed the third year of the Lower Trinity Source Water Assessment Project (SWAP). Funded by the U.S. EPA, the Tribal EPA (TEPA) has been conducting assessments of the Trinity River from the South fork on down to the tribe’s drinking water intake in Hoopa since 2007 Read More →

It was no surprise that the Bureau of Reclamation would have a table at the World Water Forum. The event, this year in Marseilles, France, was really a gathering for many of globalism’s biggest corporations and the BOR was there to parade their operation of 366 dams across the U.S. Read More →

We are now in the Trinity River spring releases. We are also receiving a very good snow melt that is bringing up the river even more then the releases are. Because the water and snow conditions were so severe the last week of March and the first week of April, BOR determined that the ROD Water Year should be moved into the “Normal” water range which gave the Trinity River about 20KAF more than was originally planned at the March 9 Water Working Group meeting. Read More →

The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) plan to set up another round of treatments on 8,600 acres up the North Fork Salmon River has a familiar ring to locals who have watched the Timber Wars for the last four or five decades. Read More →

Sometimes I am at a loss for words when it comes to talking about the weather, especially in spring and fall when the nature spirits of two seasons are playing tug of war. Several days of 80 degree temperatures and bright sunny skies can’t fool me. After all, it snowed just about a week ago. Even so, I am tempted to plant out an experimental row of tomatoes, cukes, and summer squash. Read More →

As they say “If you don’t like the river conditions just wait and it will change.” Well it has changed! Just as the Trinity was becoming fishable on the lower section the spring releases started. The spring releases started Saturday night and are going up to 6,000 cfs by May 6, then hold for four days and start decreasing to 4,500cfs by May 11. Read More →