‘Raising the Bar’ | Volunteers Help Improve Coastal Trails in Humboldt County

‘Raising the bar’ | Volunteers help improve coastal trails in Humboldt County

(Note: This is the first of a new monthly article from the Humboldt Trails Council.) Like so many who call this place home, Greg O’Leary came to Humboldt County to get away from urban life and live closer to nature. He arrived here in 1969, lived in Arcata and attended Humboldt College. Eventually settling in Eureka, O’Leary became a teacher in the mid-‘90s. One of the places he liked to take his sixth-grade students was down by what used to uno…

Coastal restoration project needs volunteers

The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana is partnering with Phillips 66 to plant 10,000 plugs of marsh grasses in Cameron Parish in early June. The nonprofit organization will recruit as many as 60 volunteers to plant the spartina alterniflora in an area of degraded marsh east of Calcasieu Lake. Phillips 66 employees will be among the volunteers, a release states. The freshwater marsh sustained significant damage in Hurricanes Delta and Laura …