MENDOCINO CO., 6/9/26 — Every summer a line of volunteers in masks and wetsuits floats down the South Fork Eel, shoulder to shoulder across the current, counting the one fish almost everyone on the river wants gone. They are counting Sacramento pikeminnow... See more
Some guy at the end of the bar swears it’s gotten hotter out by the Narrows since they widened U.S. Highway 101. Normally you let that kind of thing slide, somewhere between the fish that got away and the cousin who almost went pro. Not this time. He’s ri... See more
MENDOCINO CO., 6/6/26 — On the Mendocino coast, the question isn’t whether you can bring the dog. It’s to which beach. The rules change every few miles: off-leash at a couple of spots, a 6-foot leash at most, and a few stretches closed to dogs entirely to... See more
MENDOCINO CO., 6/1/26 — Plants sold at Costco stores around California this spring, the Ukiah warehouse among them, harbored the glassy-winged sharpshooter — an insect that can spread Xylella fastidiosa, the bacterium behind the vine-killing Pierce’s dise... See more
MENDOCINO CO., 5/25/26 — The Potter Valley powerhouse that is the engine of the Potter Valley Project has not made electricity since 2021. The dams are still standing. The water still moves. It falls 470 feet from Cape Horn Dam on the upper Eel River thro... See more
