Journal
Stories from the Mendocino Coast — exploring the history, nature, and culture of our coastal community
The Fog That Feeds the Forest: Understanding Mendocino's Coastal Fog
The Mendocino Coast awakens each morning beneath a thick blanket of coastal fog, a phenomenon so reliable that indigenous Pomo and Yuki peoples wove its rhyt...
Noyo Harbor: Fort Bragg's Working Fishing Village
The Mendocino Coast's rugged shoreline opens briefly at the mouth of the Noyo River, creating one of California's most authentic working harbors. The region ...
The Pygmy Forest: Where Ancient Trees Grow Only Waist-High
The Mendocino Coast harbors one of North America's most peculiar botanical mysteries. Within Jug Handle State Reserve, just north of Caspar, ancient cypress ...
Point Cabrillo Lighthouse: A Century of Keepers on the Mendocino Coast
The beam from Point Cabrillo Light Station has swept across the Pacific for over a century, guiding mariners through some of California's most treacherous co...
The Kelp Highway: How the Pomo People Reached the Mendocino Coast
The story of how humans first arrived on the Mendocino Coast begins not with footprints across an ice bridge, but with a journey along a ribbon of kelp forests...
Victorian Inns and Historic Bed and Breakfast Homes: Preserving Mendocino Village's Architectural Legacy
The Mendocino Coast's ancestral homeland of the Pomo and Yuki peoples transformed dramatically in the 1850s when lumber baron Henry Meiggs established a mill...
Stairway to the Past: The Marine Terraces of the Mendocino Coast
The Mendocino Coast's dramatic landscape rises from the Pacific in a series of giant steps, each one a chapter in Earth's geological history written in stone...