Now equipped with $8.4 million in federal money, conservationists are aiming to bring back the watershed’s salmonids
A Last Best Hope for Coho in the Russian River
January 9, 2024 •
Alastair Bland
Alastair Bland, a freelance journalist living in Sebastopol, began publishing articles related to travel and cycling in the early 2000s and has since covered topics as varied as energy and climate, fisheries and marine ecosystems, and the family courts and judicial misconduct. He currently focuses his reporting on freshwater ecosystems, marine research, and environmental regulations. His work has appeared on CalMatters and NPR, and in the East Bay Express, Smithsonian, and The Atlantic.
Scientists Try a ‘Field of Dreams’ Approach to Restoring California’s Bull Kelp Forests
August 17, 2023 •
Can scientists defeat vast armies of sea urchins and re-kelp California’s North Coast? A Wild Billions story.
Learn to Burn
March 28, 2022 •
Scientists estimate that California needs to burn one million acres a year to prevent catastrophic wildfires. That’s more than a single agency can
manage, but if you teach one million people to burn one acre each …
Kelp Forests Surge Back on Parts of the North Coast, with a Lesson About Environmental Stability
September 13, 2021 •
Some scientists thought kelp’s near-disappearance from the waters off California was likely a new normal. Then, at least temporarily, the kelp came back.
With Recall Election, California’s Environmental Future Up for Vote
August 24, 2021 •
Voters could replace Gavin Newsom with a Republican this September, leading to massive shifts in the way the state of California approaches environmental issues.