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The Wags and Menace Foundation's kind support during the mass Northern Elephant Seal Weaner stranding event of 2014 (29 weaners responded to!) led directly to the NMMC applying for and getting notification today of our approval for a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation emergency funding grant! Since Wags and Menace, led by Director Cindy Lee, allowed us to literally put tons of fish into happ...
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The Humboldt Bay Critter Crawl is a non-competitive open water swim to benefit local charities caring for wild and domestic animals in Humboldt and Del Norte counties. This is a current assisted 4.5-mile swim from the opening of the bay along the Eureka city front to the Woodley Island Marina. The swim will be held this year on Sunday, July 13th 2014 to benefit the North Coast Marine Mammal Center...
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At 1:30 pm on Thursday, 22 May, Janet Dickey, Hospital Coordinator for the Northcoast Marine Mammal Center spoke with Jennifer Savage on the Humboldt State University ECO-News radio program.  The broadcast was carried live on both KNSR 90.5 FM and KHSU 91.9 FM.  Please visit The Northcoast Environmental Center' website at: http://www.yournec.org/ for more information.   Our sincere than...
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Dr. Dennis Wood, DVM was voted the Best Veterinarian 2014 for Del Norte County by the recent Triplicate "Reader's Choice Awards." Dr Wood, founder of the Northcoast Marine Mammal Center, stated, "As founding veterinarian and medical director of the Northcoast Marine Mammal Center since 1985 and member of the Whale Disentanglement Network, I am also priveleged to care for the marine mammals of t...
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Northcoast Marine Mammal Center: Elephant seal goes airborne   Written by Jessica Cejnar, The Triplicate April 24, 2014 11:11 am   http://www.triplicate.com/News/Local-News/Northcoast-Marine-Mammal-Center-Elephant-seal-goes-airborne   With baited breath Northcoast Marine Mammal Center volunteers, armed with backboards, prevented the 500-pound northern elephant seal fro...
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Hey all! We have started a new fundraising opportunity for the NMMC through Amazon.com. All you need to do is save our website to your favorites tab and whenever you want to shop Amazon, go to our website, click on the Amazon link at the bottom of our page to access...that is it!! That, and tell all of your friends and family to do the same. The center will get around 4% of the purchase pri...
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National Public Radio's Jennifer Savage interviewed the Northcoast Marine Mammal Center's Hospital Coordinator Janet Dickey by telephone yesterday. The interview lasted a half hour and topics ran the gamut; from the Center's founding by Dr Dennis Wood, DVM, to California Sea Lion residency in Crescent City Harbor, to the appropriate behaviors to take when coming across a stranded pinniped on a loc...
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"The Spirit of the Northwest," Channel 3, Eureka, recently ran a televised spot about the recent spate of Sea Lions becoming entangled in lines in Crescent City, California. The Northcoast Marine Mammal Center, located in Crescent City, serves an area encommpassing Eureka and Arcata and ends South of these cities at Shelter Cove. Our Stranding Network regularly brings injured, sick, or abandoned p...
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