Eel River News
Right vs. Reason in Severe Drought Conditions
By: Scott Greacen Originally published by Econews, August 2014 Responding to one of the most severe and persistent droughts in the history of California, state agencies are now moving to shut down water diversions that harm fisheries and wildlife, using a mixture of...
Drying Times are Trying Times for Eel River Fish
By: Scott Greacen Originally published by Econews, June 2014 Serial Variance Requests Reveal Vulnerability of Eel River Fisheries to Demands from Russian River Irrigators The Eel River’s surviving salmonids—chinook, coho, and steelhead—are struggling to come back from...
Groundwater Ruling Has Rippling Effects
Decision could lead to unprecedented state regulations Amid concerns of costly and unregulated use of California's groundwater, a Sacramento Superior Court judge has ruled groundwater pumping that impairs waterways violates the public's right to use those waterways,...
Point of No Return
With the Green Rush and the drought colliding this summer, is it too late to save Humboldt's watersheds? It's July 2 and about 18 officials are sitting in a meeting with North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman in the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office Conference Room....
Hidden on Public Land
Enviro groups push Forest Service to release pot maps ...There could be several plausible reasons the Forest Service didn't produce the rumored maps: They aren't official, they're part of ongoing law enforcement investigations or they don't exist. Or it could be that...
Beautiful River, Growing Thirst, Looming Battle Over the Eel River
In the third-largest watershed in California, the Eel River rambles through some of the state’s most stunning landscape. Nothing about the river, with its clusters of redwoods along its sandy banks, hints at the looming battle over its blue-green water. In about three...
Court Ruling Restores Right to Limit Russian River Water Use
A state appeals court has restored the authority of California water regulators to direct reductions in cold-weather sprays by grape growers and other waterfront farmers along the Russian River that have led to deaths of endangered species of salmon. A Mendocino...
Mendocino Co. Supervisors OK Letter in Support of PV Diversion – FOER Responds
Read article on Ukiah Daily Journal website Read David Keller's comment By JUSTINE FREDERIKSEN Ukiah Daily Journal Updated: 05/07/2014 08:35:04 AM PDT The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved sending a letter to the federal agency that denied a...
2014 Eel River Symposium: Drought, Resilience & the North Coast
Eli Asarian on North Coast Stream Flow Decline Dr. Bill Trush - What Do Fish Need? Darren Mierau on Understanding Stream Flow and Managing Diversions Dana Stolzman on the SRF Redwood Creek Project
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