I'm a reporter for the Del Norte Triplicate newspaper covering environmental, health and transportation issues. Even though we're located in a remote northwest corner of California that much of the state has never heard of, we keep ourselves busy with Del Norte County's unique superlatives: the largest tribe in California (the Yurok Tribe), the most productive commercial seafood port north of Monterrey (number one for Dungeness Crab), the largest completely undammed river in the state, the most tsunami-prone city in the Lower 48, and the closest city to the largest old-growth redwoods via Redwood National and State Parks.