by Steelhead | Dec 22, 2025 | News, FOER, Public Trust, Slider, Water Quality
Friends of the Eel River (FOER) has moved to appeal the Humboldt Superior Court’s September ruling denying our claim that Humboldt County has a duty under the Public Trust doctrine to consider the impacts of groundwater pumping on salmon holding in the lower Eel...
by Steelhead | Nov 29, 2025 | FOER, News, Slider
December 2nd is Giving Tuesday! Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity. Every year, Friends of the Eel River joins in this movement to encourage people like you to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity. Please...
by Lamprey | Aug 29, 2025 | Slider, FOER, News
You are invited to join fellow Friends of the Eel River supporters to celebrate 30 years of successful advocacy for our beloved river and all its inhabitants. Enjoy a catered dinner by Cassaro’s Catering, inspirational and exciting entertainment, an amazing...
by Steelhead | Feb 26, 2025 | FOER
The founder of our organization, Patricia Nadananda Hamilton is a champion for the Wild and Free Eel River. Seeing the Eel and its fisheries in decline in the early 1990s, she began organizing for an Eel River freed of PG&E’s Potter Valley Project dams and...
by Lamprey | Feb 20, 2025 | Dam Removal, FOER, News, Slider
The preliminary design for the New Eel-Russian Diversion Facility, or NERF, located at what is currently Cape Horn Dam. Diagram via PG&E. Just a week after PG&E published their final draft license surrender plan, another significant development was made...
by Steelhead | Dec 2, 2024 | FOER, groundwater, Slider
Well friends, I write this the day after the election and two months after the birth of my second baby. As so many of us are, I am wrestling with hope and despair. New life brings such promise, yet grave new dangers face families like mine. Our work gives me hope. But...
