February's Ocean Night will feature Ancient Sea Turtles Stranded in the Modern World, a film about endangered sea turtles, which begin life as hatchlings, follow a several thousand mile and decades-long migration route, and return as adults to the very beach where they began - completing a cycle that has endured for 100 million years. The modern world poses many threats to sea turtles: poaching, entanglement in fishing gear, destruction of nest sites, and pollution. 

In 2009, Humboldt Baykeeper initiated an internship program in conjunction with Dr. Alison Purcell O’Dowd, Assistant Professor and Environmental Science Program Coordinator at Humboldt State University. Interns are students enrolled in Applied Ecological Restoration (ENVS 450) who study riparian and instream conditions in Widow White Creek, a tributary of the Lower Mad River in McKinleyville.