by Steelhead | Apr 9, 2026 | EcoNews Report, News, Slider
Trump has revived a little-utilized part of the Endangered Species Act — formally the Endangered Species Committee, but often called the “God Squad” as it can decide whether species may go extinct — in a purported effort to boost oil and gas development in the Gulf...
by Steelhead | Mar 26, 2026 | Comments, News
Senator Josh Becker, Chair Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee 102 O Street, Room 3220Sacramento, CA 95814 Re: SB 1305 (Richardson) – California Grizzly Restoration Act: Support Dear Senator Becker, Friends of the Eel River writes in Support of SB 1305...
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 21, 2026 | EcoNews Report, News, Slider
On February 12, the Trump Administration rescinded the Obama-era “endangerment finding,” a legal recognition by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that greenhouse gas emissions were harming and would further harm health and human safety. This endangerment...
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 20, 2025 | 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...
