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...
Join us to clean up Crab Park at the mouth of the Eel River as part of Coastal Cleanup Month 2024 on Saturday, September 14th! Coastal Cleanup Month is one of the largest volunteer events in California, and it was founded right here in Humboldt by the Northcoast...
Chevron deference is no more. What’s Chevron deference you ask? Well, it was the backbone of our federal administrative state. Congress often passes laws that are vague or are capable of multiple interpretations. In Chevron, decided in 1984, the Supreme Court...
Dear Friends, Can you believe we are preparing to celebrate 30 years of protecting the Eel River? Many of you have been with us since the beginning, for which we are incredibly grateful. Some of you may have participated in Friends of the Eel River’s very first...
Special guest Rep. Jared Huffman is heading a task force in the Democratic caucus to address Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s policy outline for a second Trump administration. The document is pervaded by anti-science and anti-regulatory animus, with a...
FOER worked hard to provide detailed comments on the Great Redwood Trail Agency’s (GRTA) nearly 600-page Draft Master Plan for the Great Redwood Trail. In addition to the comments linked below, we submitted location-specific comments using the GRTA’s pdf commenting...
