Eel River News
FOER and Allies Submit Comments to FERC on Scoping Document 1 & Study Plan Proposals
Friends of the Eel River and our conservation group partners submitted comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on their Scoping Document 1 for the relicensing of Potter Valley Project. You can read our full comments or any specific section below....
Cal. Supreme Court Rules CEQA Applies in North Coast Railroad Case
Case against North Coast Rail Authority brought by Friends of the Eel River and Californians Against Toxics to be reheard San Francisco – The California Supreme Court today agreed that the North Coast Rail Authority must comply with environmental review requirements...
Action Alert: Oppose H.R. 23 “Gaining Responsibility on Water” Act
After passing the House last week, H.R. 23, San Joaquin Valley Republican David Valadao's "Gaining Responsibility on Water" Act was received by the Senate this week. This bill would prevent California from managing its own rivers, fisheries, and public trust resources...
A Leap in Lampreys: Unlovely Fish Make Welcome Comback
POTTER VALLEY, Mendocino County — This year’s historic gush of water through California’s rivers brings the dawning of a renaissance for lampreys, a peculiar fish that migrates upstream to spawn but without the fanfare of its salmon and steelhead compatriots. Climbing...
State Transportation Commission Raises Eyebrow at North Coast Railroad Authority Finances, Asks Perennially Beleaguered Agency to Prepare “Shutdown Plan”
Last week, members of the California Transportation Commission got tough with the North Coast Railroad Authority, the public agency that owns the defunct railroad tracks around Humboldt County, which has been operating in the red and selling off publicly owned...
Will they go the way of the buffalo? Vanishing salmon could doom tribes’ culture.
Under a purple pre-dawn sky, a small group of Northern Californian Indians ventured out onto the wet sand where the mighty Klamath River meets the Pacific Ocean. They had come to honor and fight for the salmon that have sustained their ancient culture for generations....
Pacific Lamprey’s Big Year
While South Fork of the Lamprey River does not roll off the tongue with same ease as South Fork of the Eel, it would be a more accurate name for our local waterway, especially this year when it is enjoying an abundance related to the high pre-drought water flows of a...
Action Alert: Submit Scoping Comments on Eel River Dams to FERC
We need your help. The dams on the Eel River, known as the Potter Valley Project, have just begun the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) relicensing process. This is our opportunity to call for their decommissioning and removal. The dams are licensed as a...
The Eel River Could Save Wild Salmon – If We Can Save the River Itself
The Eel River is on the brink of disaster, its ocean-going fish species threatened with extinction, its nurturing estuary diked, drained and diminishing. At the same time, this massive watershed in California’s northwest corner offers the state’s best hope of ensuring...
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