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 | Dec 6, 2025 | EcoNews Report, News, Slider
This week on the Econews Report, we’re joined by Marc Hoshovsky and Bob Schneider, two of the authors of the new book Exploring the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, which will be published early next year by Backcountry Press. Never heard of the Berryessa...
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 Steelhead | Nov 8, 2025 | EcoNews Report, Dam Removal, News, Slider
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...
by Steelhead | Nov 1, 2025 | EcoNews Report, News, Slider
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...
by Steelhead | Oct 28, 2025 | Land Use, groundwater, News, Slider
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...
