by Steelhead | Mar 3, 2026 | Dam Removal, FOER, News, Slider
By Scott Greacen | Originally published in Issue No. 111 of The Osprey. As 2025 drew to a close, the big news on California’s Eel River was U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins’ unhinged and weird letter to the Federal Energy...
by Steelhead | Feb 1, 2026 | Comments, Dam Removal, FOER, News, Slider
Comments submitted on behalf of six groups: Friends of the Eel River, Sierra Club, Native Fish Society, Save California Salmon, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, and Northern California Council, Fly Fishers International. Scott Dam and Lake Pillsbury Cape...
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...
