Please note: this is a rerun episode, that was originally aired in Sep. 2025.
Last year the Board of Supervisors approved the Inland Outdoor Lighting Ordinance, which regulates outdoor lights to limit light pollution and requires new development on unincorporated land to use light fixtures and bulbs that reduce light pollution.
And light pollution doesn't just prevent us seeing the stars. It also disrupts the natural rhythms of wildlife — altering the timing of bird migrations, interfering with seasonal flower cycles and even affect our own sleep cycles.
Sylvia van Royen, GIS & Policy Analyst for Humboldt Waterkeeper, joins the EcoNews Report to discuss the lighting ordinance and how Humboldt residents can adapt their outdoor lighting to be friendlier to migrating birds and support the biological rhythms essential to our region’s biodiversity.
