Eel River News
Data Suggests Broad Decline Among Regional Bird Populations
"Data suggests that 2/3 of regional bird species are in decline, 1/3 of those are double digit declines" Friends of the Eel River's Conservation Director Scott Greacen hosts a discussion with Ken Burton, author of Common Birds of Northwest California and A Birding...
A New Hope for an Ancestral River
“Many people know that the river’s name is the Eel River right now, but the original name is Wiyot, that’s what we originated our name from and that is our ancestral river.” Ted Hernandez, Tribal Chair and Cultural Director for the Wiyot Tribe. Friends of the...
Changing Landscapes: The Eel River Estuary
Changing Landscapes: The Eel River Estuary is a documentary film in the making from film maker Barbara Domanchuk featuring a variety of projects aimed at restoring the Eel River estuary and tidal marsh. The Eel River Estuary is about seven miles long and consists of...
Some Clarity At Last – PG&E Ends Dam Relicensing, Sale
We have great news for the Eel River and its fisheries. Days before entering bankruptcy, utility giant PG&E withdrew its application to relicense the Potter Valley Project and ended its attempt to sell the project, which includes two dams on the upper mainstem Eel...
Friends of the Eel River Welcomes PG&E’s Abandonment of Eel River Dams Relicensing Application
(Eureka) Friends of the Eel River welcomes today’s announcement by PG&E that the utility is withdrawing its formal notice of intent to seek relicensing of the Potter Valley Project (PVP) before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and ceasing its...
BREAKING NEWS: Pacific Gas and Electric Withdraws “Notice of Intent to File License Application”
From Pacific Gas and Electric: NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF NOTICE OF INTENT TO FILE LICENSE APPLICATION AND PRE-APPLICATION DOCUMENT On April 6, 2017, pursuant to 18 C.F.R. §§ 5.5 and 5.6, Pacific Gas and Electric Company ("PG&E"), filed with the Federal Energy...
Talking About the Bigger Picture of California’s Legal Cannabis Industry
Are prohibitionary cities and counties unintentionally sanctioning the illegal cannabis market? Friends of the Eel River's Conservation Director Scott Greacen discusses this question with HDL's Cannabis Policy Advisor Mark Lovelace. Tune in to hear about California's...
All We Want for the Holidays is the Great Redwood Trail
We are so close we can almost smell the dust on the Great Redwood Trail, but the North Coast Railroad Authority is stuck in the past, fighting for rails over trails. For more than a decade now, FOER has been holding the NCRA's feet to the fire for its refusal to clean...
Out of the Smoke, A Restorative Vision for the Upper Eel River
FOER staff and Board spent a weekend in the Upper Eel river watershed in late November. Amidst the lingering smoke of the tragic Camp Fire that destroyed the town of Paradise, we took stock of the impacts of the Mendocino Complex Fire, the largest in California’s...
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