This week on the EcoNews Report, we’re excited to share that the comment period for Eel River dam removal has finally opened! Tune in to hear co-hosts Tom Wheeler of EPIC and Alicia Bales of the Redwood Chapter of the Sierra Club talk with Alicia Hamann of Friends of...
Scott Dam (left) and Cape Horn Dam (right) are the two dams that comprise the Potter Valley Project. PG&E’s July 2025 filing to the official Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) docket is an important milestone on the way to removing the Eel River dams. The...
The Yurok people are a fishing people. Since time immemorial, the Klamath River provided for the Yurok, with salmon, eels, eulachon, and other food. Colonization fundamentally upset the balance that existed. The Yurok faced genocide, and those that survived were...
As advocates for removal of the Eel River dams, we and our allies at The Native Fish Society, Fly Fishers International, American Whitewater, and The Sierra Club Redwood Chapter offered comments to the State Water Resources Control Board, (SWRCB or...
First District Court Judge Neel issued an order in the public trust groundwater lawsuit Friends of the Eel River v. County of Humboldt that appears to misinterpret the nature of the public trust doctrine and FOER’s argument that Humboldt County failed to uphold their...
