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, Water Rights
The preliminary design for the New Eel-Russian Diversion Facility, or NERF, located at what is currently Cape Horn Dam. Diagram via PG&E. UPDATE: Read the final Water Diversion Agreement, published July 2025. Just a week after PG&E published their final draft...
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...
by Steelhead | Sep 10, 2024 | FOER, Slider
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...
by Steelhead | Jul 18, 2024 | EcoNews Report, FOER, News, Slider
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...
