Eel River News
Commercial Fishers Need Water for their Crops too
Drought has hurt us all, let’s be frank. San Joaquin Valley residents know how it’s hurt their region. Let me share some experiences from the coast, where we rely on salmon to make a living.
5 Reasons Dam Removal Still Makes Sense Despite the Drought
Five reasons dam removal still makes sense: safety, harmful impacts to fish populations, dams make us more vulnerable to sea level rise, dam removal makes financial sense, and there are far better ways to supply water.
Report States Parasite Blinded Salmon; Virus Found in Brains
The flukes that some Eel River chinook salmon experienced this fall were parasites that burrowed into their eyes and caused them to go blind, according to a preliminary report from an ongoing University of California Davis study.
The Reservoir Stops Here
In 1967, the US Army Corps of Engineers unveiled a proposal to construct the largest dam and reservoir project in California’s history: the so-called “Dos Rios Dam” on the Middle Fork of the Eel. In addition to being 730-feet-high, the dam would have flooded a 40,000-acre area for its reservoir, equal in size to the Shasta and Oroville reservoirs combined.
Eel River Flows Still Too Low in Peak Salmon Spawning Period + RVITs Comments to FERC
This month’s rainfall and cooler temperatures have helped lessen the strain on salmon migrating on the Eel River, but not near enough to ease the concerns of local researchers. And they have their reasons. By: Will Houston November 29, 2015 Eureka Times Standard Since...
Learning from Forests
Forests play a significant role in the process of moving water throughout the landscape. As we learned from Eli Asarian's recently published report on streamflow and precipitation trends in the Eel River basin, the age and density of our forests impacts streamflow in...
FOER Comments on Marijuana Cultivation Ordinance Waiver of Waste Discharge
Read our comments on marijuana cultivation legislation in 2015.
Let’s Not Allow the Marijuana Industry to Write Its Own Rules
By: Scott Greacen Under a tight March 2016 timeline set by new California laws regulating medical marijuana, Humboldt County is scrambling at last to write locally appropriate rules for commercial cannabis cultivation. Among the most significant problems the new rules...
The Secret Life of a Raindrop
According to a widely held belief, you can’t squeeze water from a rock. But researchers from UC Berkeley who are trying to better understand where water is stored in nature are challenging that old adage. By Amy Miller November 10, 2015 After nearly ten years of...
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