Wiyot Tribe recommends preserving Rainbow and Bear River Ridges as Wildlife Refugia

Adam Canter, Assistant Director of the Wiyot Tribe Natural Resources Department, cited recent NASA imagery (used to chart wildfire) which reveals that the Bear RIver and Rainbow Ridges are important thermal refugia for endangered wildlife and landscapes.

Paused image from the video cited above.

Close-up shows the green, less prone to wildfire zone inland from the western “bump” of Cape Mendocino which is Rainbow and Bear RIver Ridges.

Canter writes: “given the drought and regional extreme temperatures, it is easy to see the climate refugium role that Cape Mendocino/Rainbow Ridge/and Humboldt Redwoods State Park corridor will play for so many interior species experiencing climate stress, and supporting coastal populations that can persist until we get our carbon production under control. This can be seen if you pause the NOAA satellite video imagery from this week here at this link and note that the Mattole/Humboldt Redwood State Park/Rainbow areas are experiencing less drought induced vegetation stress than most of the state and west coast in general.”