Eel River News
North Coast residents urged to report salmon run on the Eel River
North Coast residents urged to report salmon run on Eel River by Dan Bacher Friday Oct 14th, 2011 8:25 AM The call to report fish sightings comes a time when the campaign by Indian Tribes, environmentalists and fishermen to restore salmon and steelhead populations on...
Friends of the Eel River looking for salmon run spotters
The Times-Standard Posted: 10/14/2011 01:59:33 AM PDT Friends of the Eel River is asking local residents to watch for and report sightings of Chinook salmon migrating up the Eel River and its tributaries, according to a press release sent out Thursday. The nonprofit...
Celebrating salmon: Eel River revival will be commemorated by watershed’s youth
By Andrew I. Jones/Special for The Willits News Posted: 10/14/2011 11:16:21 AM PDT Hundreds of student-made screen-printed fish will be created and integrated... (The Willits News) Bridgeville artist Michael Guerriero is crisscrossing 1,500 miles of mountain...
Freezing Out Fish in Whine Country
Freezing Out Fish in Whine Country By Lloyd G. Carter Do not expect the State Water Resources Control Board’s recently adopted frost prevention self-monitoring program to halt the Russian River fishery’s slow slide toward extinction. If anything, the new...
The Real Frost Protection Conspiracy
by Will Parrish on Sep 28th, 2011 The Anderson Valley Advertiser The primary mandate of the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), a division of the California Environmental Protection Agency, is to ensure adequate water for California’s...
North Coast Railroad Authority: ‘We Don’t Have to Follow Your Laws’
Hank Sims / Sept. 2 @ 2:04 p.m. “NCRA, acting as the CEQA [California Environmental Quality Act] lead agency, has a duty pursuant to CEQA guidelines to neither approve nor carry out a project as proposed unless the significant environmental effects have been mitigated...
How Wine Rules
by Darwin Bond-Graham and Will Parrish on Jul 27th, 2011 If you’ve followed the Anderson Valley Advertiser for any length of time, you’re no doubt aware that the wine industry wields inordinate political power, not only here on the North Coast, but at the state-wide...
Environmental Groups Challenge Railroad’s Failure to Review Impacts
For immediate release: July 20, 2011 For more information: Friends of the Eel River: Scott Greacen, North Coast Director, Arcata: 707-502-4555 Nadananda, Executive Director, Sausalito: 415-332-9810 Californians for Alternatives to Toxics...
The Mendonoma Coast’s Second Spanish Invasion
Will Parrish: Laytonville Spanish wine corporation Grupo Codorníu is accustomed to doing things in a big way. It is reputed to own a greater expanse of vineyard acreage than any wine company in Spain, which in turn has more land under grapevine cultivation than...
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