The board of the McKinleyville Community Services District expressed its support for the project Feb. 8 and a potential location in Hiller Park has been chosen. It will be bigger and have separate sections for different skill levels so that younger skaters don't get in the way of more experienced ones. Another difference, she said, is that the park would include some facilities for BMX bike riders. Riders would be allowed on some of the concrete and the park would have dirt mounds especially for the bikes. She said the committee plans on asking contractors to donate time to the construction, but even with volunteer help, it won't be cheap.
Black bears love people food.
That's one reason why the King Range National Conservation Area is asking that backpackers on the Lost Coast take the extra precaution of storing food in bear-resistant canisters. The bears along the Lost Coast have become increasingly aggressive and clever, getting at food even when it is hung in a tree. If allowed to get at food, the bears will learn to view humans as a potential source of sustenance. Such bears must eventually be moved or destroyed, as they constitute a danger to human beings. The canisters can be rented at either end of the Lost Coast Trail.