Cows on 101 Near Loleta Cause Series of Crashes

by Kimberly Wear on August 29, 2018 at 10:15AM

A Fortuna teenager was seriously injured after colliding with two cows around 8 p.m., a couple of hours after the California Highway Patrol received its first calls about the animals wandering in the highway and worked with the owner to corral them back into a fenced area. While the animals were once again moved back out of the roadway after that crash, another one got out and caused a semi truck driver to overturn and spill his load of scrap metal across the southbound lanes of the highway at Loleta Drive around 2 a.m.

Judge Finds Animal Cruelty Case Against Rancher Can Proceed to Trial

by Kimberly Wear on August 17, 2018 at 12:45PM

A Humboldt County Superior Court judge has ruled there is enough evidence for local rancher Raymond Christie to stand trial on charges related to his treatment of animals and the disposal of dead livestock at properties across the region. According to a Times-Standard report, Judge Kaleb Cockrum held Christine to answer Thursday to three felony charges of animal cruelty and 47 misdemeanors related to large amounts of cattle carcasses dumped near state waterways, including sloughs in Trinidad and Arcata.

Mountain Lion Sighting on Fickle Hill

by Kimberly Wear on July 17, 2018 at 11:18AM

Facebook post from the Arcata Police Department: A mountain lion has been spotted off of Fickle Hill road in the Arcata Community Forest.

Moses the Yak Dies at the Zoo

by Kimberly Wear on July 11, 2018 at 12:33PM

The Sequoia Park Zoo today announced via Facebook that Moses, a domestic yak, has died. He was estimated to be 15 and was suffering from age-related arthritis that increasing left him in pain.

Arcata Rancher Charged on 35 Counts Related to Animal Cruelty Investigation

by Linda Stansberry on June 19, 2018 at 12:40PM

UPDATE: According to Humboldt County Deputy District Attorney Adrian Kamada, at this morning’s arraignment on animal cruelty charges Raymond Christie waived his right to have a preliminary hearing within 60 days. A court date has been set for Aug. 14 and Christie is not currently in custody.

Is Bigfoot a Bear?

by Kimberly Wear on November 29, 2017 at 2:26PM

In a tough break for cryptozoologists, a team of scientists says their DNA analysis of hair samples, scat and a tooth purported to be from Bigfoot’s Tibetan cousin the Yeti are, in fact, from bears. The findings — based on the analysis of mitochondrial DNA from 24 samples, including some collected in the 1930s on a Tibetan plateau — were published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

You Otter be a Citizen Scientist

by Mark Larson on September 21, 2017 at 1:44PM

Making Time: More Moments from the Hoopa Rodeo

by Linda Stansberry on August 19, 2017 at 10:01AM

Silly Bear Locked in Car Freed by Deputies

by Kimberly Wear on July 10, 2017 at 3:50PM

Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: On 07-10-17 Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a residence on Greenwood Heights for a call of a bear locked in a vehicle.

Hello, My Name is: Humboldt's Flying Squirrel

by Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on May 31, 2017 at 11:20AM

Inspiring base jumpers and those of us with less than toned upper arms, the tiny nocturnal critters jump from tree to tree using skin flaps to glide in pursuit of nuts and berries (and sometimes pursued by spotted owls). Alexander says in the fall they go heavy fungivore, nibbling "truffles and other fungi."