Current Issues
Protecting Instream Flows in the Eel River
Project 2025 and the Environment: EcoNews Report #238
Comments on the Great Redwood Trail Draft Master Plan
FERC Urgently Needs to Approve PG&E’s Flow Variance Request
PG&E Delaying Eel River Dam Removal, Locals Demand a Free Eel River!
Scoping Comments on the Great Redwood Trail PEIR
Great Opportunities and Challenges for the Great Redwood Trail: EcoNews Report #234
Critical Dam Safety Documents Need to Be Made Public
Core Programs
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| One of Friends of the Eel River’s long-term goals, decommissioning and removal of the Eel River dams, may soon become a reality. Click here to learn more about the two Eel River dams and what we are doing to get them removed. | Friends of the Eel River’s 2017 win at the California Supreme Court helped pave the way for a new future along the old Northwestern Pacific Rail line. Thanks to Senator Mike McGuire and many others, the right of way is transitioning into a rail-to-trail project known as the Great Redwood Trail. Click here to learn about the transition and the vision for the Great Redwood Trail. | Friends of the Eel River advocates for beneficial land-use policies and effective regulations at the county-level and encourages land owners to practices watershed stewardship. Click here to access landowner resources and learn about our advocacy. |
Eel River Fish Count Station at Van Arsdale Reservoir
2023-2024 Adult Migration Season: May 2024
May 26, 2024
Adult fish migration activity through the fishway at Cape Horn Dam has decreased significantly during May, and as a result, this will be the last update for the 2023/24 season. Over the past three weeks one (1) adult steelhead (female 1, male 0, unknown 0) and two subadult steelhead were observed moving upstream through the fishway at Cape Horn Dam. The one (1) adult steelhead was observed during the week of May 6 – 12; no adult steelhead were observed during the last two weeks of monitoring. The two subadult steelhead were observed during the week of May 13 – 19 (1 subadult) and May 20 – 26 (1 subadult). The season total for adult upstream migrating steelhead stands at 218 (female 97, male 83, unknown 38). The season total for subadult steelhead stands at 52.
During this same timeframe, 1,162 adult Pacific lampreys were observed ascending over Cape Horn Dam, bringing the season total to 1,827 upstream migrant lampreys.
Andrew Anderson
PG&E | Aquatic Biologist