Unmanageable with Alicia Bales

Episode 22: Rich Culbertson and KZYX

Alicia Bales — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 18:24:55 -0800

Link to Sign the Petition to Immediately Reinstate Rich Culbertson
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5Y7FO6KrocUE-ccnmgX-FZwEzUnsaGgljzLMXKGTys0fVEQ/viewform

Link to KZYX Board of Directors Meeting Zoom Link on 2/25/25 @ 5pm
https://www.kzyx.org/board-meetings

Rich's Replacement Presentation to the KZYX BOD on 1/28/25
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GmNE1CakDsb4_achVL2VFsdiPXmIJfJa/view?usp=sharing

Join the Facebook Group: Concerned Members and Listeners of KZYX
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1265227728065308

Episode 21: Black to the Land

Alicia Bales — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:00:45 -0700

August 11, 2024--Zappa Montag and Lucky Atieno of Black to the Land at Emerald Earth Sanctuary in Anderson Valley talk about building Black Community in Mendocino County. Composer Nathaniel Stookey describes the premier of his new opera Bulrusher, set in Anderson Valley and featuring Boonville's homegrown dialect Boontling.

Episode 20: Chaos at the County with Local Reporter Mike Geniella

Alicia Bales — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 15:11:27 -0700

August 4, 2024--Local Reporter Mike Geniella talks with Alicia about developments in the criminal case against the county's former elected Auditor and other important local stories.

Links to Articles:
"Former Manager Seeks Mental Health Diversion in Criminal Case" Ukiah Daily Journal August 4, 2024
https://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/2024/08/04/former-manager-seeks-mental-health-diversion-in-criminal-case/

"State Controller Blames Mendocino County Supervisors for Financial Chaos" MendoFever July 7, 2024
https://mendofever.com/2024/07/07/state-controller-blames-mendocino-county-supervisors-for-financial-chaos/

"Mendocino County Supervisory Turns To FPPS For Ruling Primary Residence Issues" the AVA July 19, 2024:
https://theava.com/archives/248830

"Federal Judge Allows Sexual Assault Civil Case Against Former Ukiah Police Chief to Proceed" the AVA July 18, 2024
https://theava.com/archives/248770

Episode 19: Ukiah's Western Hills Annexation

Alicia Bales — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:15:23 -0700

July 21, 2024--Neil Davis of the City of Ukiah talks about the 700-acre Western Hills Acquisition and Annexation, and plans for the future of Ukiah's Western Hills. Melodie Meyer of EPIC helps make sense of the July meeting of the Jackson Advisory Group.

Episode 18: "What's in the Soil?" with Patty Clary

Alicia Bales — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 15:21:00 -0700

Patty Clary of Californians for Alternatives to Toxics talks about her fight to uncover and remediate the toxic chemicals along the North Coast Railroad, now the Great Redwood Trail. Archive Interview: Attorney Sharon Duggan on using the legal system to enforce the Forest Practices Act.

Links-
Californians for Alternatives to Toxics https://alt2tox.org/
Our Children's Trust https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/
CalFire Divorce/Why Forests Matter https://www.whyforestsmatter.org/

Episode 17: Juneteenth at the MEC

Alicia Bales — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 23:11:19 -0700

June 23, 2024--Experience Juneteenth at the Mendocino Environmental and Social Justice Center, complete with stories, poetry, music, commentary and FOOD. Organized by Troyle Tognoli of the MEC and the Mendocino Chapter of Black Lives Matter.

In the second half, youth climate activist and 2024 Mendocino Community High School graduate Sara Constance Rose joins Lucas Near-Verbrugghe of the Mendocino Theater Company in a conversation about Art, Activism and Place.

Episode 16: 2024 Ukiah High Graduate Lucy Shakman

Alicia Bales — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 22:27:40 -0700

June 9, 2024--Episode 16 starts with a very special interview with 2024 Ukiah High School Graduate Lucy Shakman, co-founder and co-president of the Women's Empowerment Club at UHS.

The second hour features Mark Andre of the Arcata Community Forest, and his extraordinary wealth of knowledge from over 30 years of stewardship in Arcata's beloved community redwoods.

Episode 15: Tribal Opposition to the Great Redwood Trail

Alicia Bales — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 23:51:14 -0700

June 2, 2024--Local Native Leaders Markida Hoaglin of the White Lily Clan Wailaki Tribe and Nikcole Whipple, an enrolled member of Round Valley Indian Tribes, discuss Eel River Tribes' opposition to the Great Redwood Trail. Jessical Martinelli describes the many initiatives of the Northern Mendocino Ecosystem Recovery Alliance.

Add your name to a sign-on letter to comment on the Great Redwood Trail Draft Master Plan HERE.

Read the White Lily Clan Wailaki Tribe's Resolution to Oppose the Great Redwood Trail: https://kymkemp.com/2023/10/20/wailaki-tribe-submits-resolution-to-oppose-the-great-redwood-trail/

Find out more about Open Compass, a community event hosted by NM-ERA at Tanoak Park in Leggett June 20-24: https://nm-era.org/open-compass-skills-gathering/

Episode 14: Army Corps Found Guilty of Harming Salmon at Coyote Valley Dam

Alicia Bales — Tue, 28 May 2024 18:55:22 -0700

Sean White talks about his Federal Court victory against the Army Corps of Engineers for their release of turbid water from Lake Mendocino that is deadly to endangered Salmon in the Russian River. Andy Wellspring of the Coalition to Save Jackson Demonstration State Forest gives an in-depth update on the latest in efforts to achieve Tribal Co-Management and preserve the redwoods at JDSF.

To see Sean White's drone video footage of the Lake Mendocino water releases visit: https://www.youtube.com/@jmdrstv

For more about JDSF and the Jackson Coalition: https://savejackson.org/

Episode 13: Headwaters Forest Reunion

Alicia Bales — Fri, 17 May 2024 12:06:38 -0700

May 12, 2024--In response to the BLM's Headwaters Deal Commemoration events, Alicia welcomes Tracy Katelman, Nancy Four Waters, and Ellen Fred for an on-air reunion to remember the struggle to save Headwaters Forest.

Episode 12: MMIW Day of Awareness

Alicia Bales — Mon, 06 May 2024 20:43:08 -0700

May 5, 2024--Voices from the MMIW/MMIP Day of Awareness in Ukiah; Don Hess on the Redwood Valley Gas Station; Fort Bragg's Alleyway Art Project with Lia Morsell.

Content warning: rape, sex and drug trafficking, violence, sexual abuse of children.

Links
Alleyway Art Project: https://fortbraggalleywayart.org/
Redemption House: https://redemptionhouseofthebayarea.org/
Grassroots Institute: https://www.grassroots-institute.org/

Episode 11: Holly Near Comes Home

Alicia Bales — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 21:57:55 -0700

Musician Holly Near in Conversation; Kevin Collins of the Utility Wildfire Prevention Task Force about PG&E's Enhanced Vegetation Management, with Richard Gienger.

To buy tickets to see Holly Near in concert at Ukiah's SPACE Theater on May 11, visit https://www.spaceperformingarts.org/notes-blog/holly-near-fundraiser-for-space-scholarship-program

To find out more about PG&E and efforts to finally regulate their lawless tree-cutting around power lines, go to https://endpowerlinefires.com/

Episode 10: Ross Travis on "Where Do We Go From Here?"

Alicia Bales — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:21:53 -0700

Performance Artist Ross Travis talks about his new show "Where Do We Go From Here?" touring Mendocino, Lake, Colusa and Glenn Counties starting May 12; Citizens for Healing works to change the name of Kelseyville, featuring Pomo Elder Clayton Duncan.

Ross Travis's website: https://rosstravis.com/

Watch a public talk by Dr. John Parker "The Kelsey Brothers; A California Disaster, "about the two Native American Massacres in Lake County and what lead up to them, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ylHq8H600

Episode 9: Palace Intrigue with Mike Geniella

Alicia Bales — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 09:44:20 -0700

Veteran Local Journalist Mike Geniella on the imminent demise of Ukiah's historic Palace Hotel and the felony case against County Auditor Chamise Cubbison; Bear Lincoln trial remembered with archival footage on the 29th Anniversary of the shootout in Round Valley.

Episode 8: Eel River Deep Dive

Alicia Bales — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:56:33 -0700

Eel River News--Scott Greacen from Friends of the Eel River on Dam Removal at the Potter Valley Project; Perry Lincoln and Michelle Merrifield from the Kinest'e Coalition working toward tribal consultation on the Great Redwood Trail planning process.

Episode 7: Live from KMEC

Alicia Bales — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 22:22:00 -0700

Judi Bari Remembered, Kinest'e Coalition Speaks at Great Redwood Trail Agency Meeting, and Potter Valley Prepares for Dam Removal

Episode 6: The Return of Wailaki Cultural Fire

Alicia Bales — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 11:44:09 -0800

November 13, 2023--This episode of Unmanageable is a rebroadcast of a program first aired on KMUD Redwood Community Radio in Garberville California on October 31st. It features voices from the First Wailaki Cultural Burn in Southern Humboldt in 150 years, which happened at the So Hum Community Park on Thursday, October 19th. I was honored to be on site with the cultural burn crew, and my tape recorder, and I am pleased to share with you the incredible day that Indigenous fire returned to Southern Humboldt.

For more information about Native Health in Native Hands, Kinest'e cultural revitalization, and their ongoing local events, visit: https://www.nativehealthinnativehands.org/

To hear more from KMUD, listen live here: https://kmud.org/

You can make a financial contribution to keep this podcast going via paypal here: https://paypal.me/rootiepuppy?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

If you’d like to be in touch with questions, comments, or story ideas, please send me an email to unmanageablemendocino@gmail.com.

Episode 5: Architects of Abundance with Dr. Lyla June and Desirae Harp

Alicia Bales — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:06:52 -0700

July 20, 2023--Episode 5 features a recording of Dr. Lyla June and Desirae Harp performing at an extraordinary event on Food Sovereignty organized by the local nonprofit Native Health in Native Hands, a native led, native run 501c3 nonprofit, created by Kinest'e people.

The ancestral homelands of the Kinest'e, now called Wailaki, are in Northern Mendocino, Southern Humboldt, and Southwestern Trinity counties.

Episode 5 begins with excerpts of Lyla and Desi’s powerful original music and poetry. In the second half of the episode, Dr. Lyla June gives a talk called “Architects of Abundance,” based on her PhD research into Indigenous land use and food systems. Then Desirae Harp explores how Language and the Land Shape Each Other Over Time.

For more information about Native Health in Native Hands, Kinest'e cultural revitalization, and their ongoing local events, visit: https://www.nativehealthinnativehands.org/

You can make a financial contribution to keep this podcast going via paypal here: https://paypal.me/rootiepuppy?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

If you’d like to be in touch with questions, comments, or story ideas, please send me an email to unmanageablemendocino@gmail.com.

Episode 4: Art Harwood Interview

Alicia Bales — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 10:43:14 -0700

April 18, 2023--Episode 4 is a conversation with Art Harwood of Harwood Forest Products in Branscomb, and Co-Founder of the Redwood Forest Foundation (RFFI), about the past, present and future of forestry in Mendocino County, recorded in Ukiah on November 10, 2021.

For more information about RFFI, or to get involved with the Usal Redwood Forest, visit: https://www.rffi.org/

You can make a financial contribution to keep this podcast going via paypal here: https://paypal.me/rootiepuppy?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

If you’d like to be in touch with questions, comments, or story ideas, please send me an email to unmanageablemendocino@gmail.com.

Episode 3: Catastrophe at Creekside RV Park

Alicia Bales — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:14:52 -0800

February 17, 2023--Episode 3 explores the ongoing disaster at the Creekside RV Park north of Willits, where a low-income community is being displaced after winter storms washed out the only vehicle access in or out of the park.

For more information please visit United Disaster Relief of Northern California https://udrnc.org/

You can make a financial contribution to keep this podcast going via paypal here: https://paypal.me/rootiepuppy?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

If you’d like to be in touch with questions, comments, or story ideas, please send me an email at unmanageablemendocino@gmail.com.

Episode 2: The Clear Lake Hitch

Alicia Bales — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 18:00:49 -0800

Huge thank you to all of you who have supported this effort so far by downloading, subscribing, listening and donating. If you’d like to be in touch with questions, comments, or story ideas, please send me an email at unmanageablemendocino@gmail.com. You can make a financial contribution to keep this podcast going via paypal here: https://paypal.me/rootiepuppy?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

Good Hitch Links

Video of the January 24th Lake County Supervisors Meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=Si7xIiWgE2c

The Draft Emergency Proclamation on the Clear Lake Hitch
https://countyoflake.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=11588104&GUID=E65DA78B-2BDA-49C4-9CB9-E2340A5383F4

https://ucanr.edu/sites/ClearLakeAquaticWebsite/Clear_Lake_Fish_Species/Native_Species/

https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=69445&inline=1

Speech by Greg Giusti Feb 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3QIbt8OPPE&t=5s

Agenda for the Board of Supervisors Meeting with Links to Attachments
https://countyoflake.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=1057825&GUID=A0E5B378-CEC1-44DC-9AED-39DD4D3DDB35

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/emergency-endangered-species-act-protections-sought-for-clear-lake-hitch-2022-12-05/

https://biologicaldiversity.org/species/fish/Clear_Lake_hitch/pdfs/2022.12.05-Hitch-Emergency-Listing-Request-Letter.pdf

https://www.lakeconews.com/news/74778-supervisors-hold-off-on-decision-about-clear-lake-hitch-emergency?fbclid=IwAR20O9bys4kbqheQGltOdYu05MTj0bGBkywytRlsovt54NgNahR1lBRyRQc good summary of hearing by Elizabeth Larson Lake Co News

Meyo Maruffo webinar on Traditional Tule Toys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hmZrbHoBI4

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-12-06/a-minnow-sacred-to-some-native-americans-nears-extinction

Episode 1: The Potter Valley Eagle Tree

Alicia Bales — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:54:00 -0800

I’ll be back soon with Episode 2. Thank you so much for listening!

Potter Valley Eagle Tree Timeline 2022/2023:

December 15, 2022

Thursday, US Fish and Wildlife issues press release:

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service received an eagle nest removal application from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. The Service prepared an Environmental Assessment to assess the impacts of nest removal, which resulted in a Finding of No Significant Impact. The Service is seeking public comment on the assessment and finding for two weeks beginning on December 14. A public information meeting will be held on December 20.

December 30, 2022

Saturday, Eagle Tree Action Alert Issued by Joseph Seidell

January 3, 2023

Tuesday, Prayer Circle Vigil at Tree, Eagles Appear at Nest

January 5, 2023

Thursday, F&W Issues Eagle Nest Removal Permit

January 9, 2023

Monday, Vigil by Activists Continues at Tree through Deluge of Atmospheric Rivers

January 11, 2023

Wednesday, Activists Block PG&E Crew

Coyote Valley Chairman Michael Hunter Sends Letter to FWS

“The Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians has requested formal government-to-government consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service related to the proposed cutting of a bald eagle nest tree within the Pomo’s ancestral territory”

January 12, 2023
Thursday, PGE agrees to wait until 1/17 while negotiations occur

Pacific Gas and Electric has agreed to a temporary reprieve for a bald eagle’s nest proposed for removal in Mendocino County while negotiations continue between the company, the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians, and environmental groups. In an agreement issued today, the company has committed to leaving the tree through Tuesday, Jan. 17, to allow for good faith discussions.

January 16, 2023

Monday, Activist maintain vigil and document Eagle Activity at the Nest

January 17, 2023

Tuesday, PGE Announces permit placed on hold for this nesting season through August

January 18, 2023

Wednesday, PG&E Backs Down, Activists Leave the Site. Alicia visits the Tree

January 20, 2023

Friday, Congressman Huffman Posts on Facebook

“Truman [my cat] thinks there is a better way to get safe electrical power to a single customer in Potter Valley than cutting down a large tree with an active bald eagle nest. I've urged PG&E to delay this wrongheaded move and explore alternatives. I've also criticized the US Fish & Wildlife Service for reflexively granting the tree-cutting permit without serious scrutiny and with zero tribal consultation.

The tribes and activists who are fighting to protect this eagles nest are not wrong, even though they are being ridiculed and demeaned for taking this stand. This feels like a real-world Lorax story with our own truffula tree and swomee swan.” https://www.facebook.com/jared.huffman.9

Introducing: Unmanageable with Alicia Bales

Alicia Bales — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 13:20:32 -0800

Welcome to Unmanageable with Alicia Bales: News from the Unruly People and Places of Mendocino County, California.