by Steelhead | May 2, 2026 | Dam Removal, EcoNews Report, News, Slider
On April 21st, US Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins rocked the North Coast with a Tweet: She claimed that a Los Angeles-area local water district, the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District, wanted to purchase the Eel River dams to operate them for...
by Steelhead | Dec 6, 2025 | EcoNews Report, News, Public Lands, Slider
This week on the Econews Report, we’re joined by Marc Hoshovsky and Bob Schneider, two of the authors of the new book Exploring the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, which will be published early next year by Backcountry Press. Never heard of the Berryessa...
by Steelhead | May 22, 2025 | Comments, Cannabis
Re: Opposition to AB 564 and Section 34011.2 of AB 8 Dear Chair Gipson, Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry, and Assemblymember Haney, On behalf of the undersigned organizations, we write in respectful opposition to AB 564 (Haney) and the proposed Section 34011.2 of AB...
by Steelhead | May 16, 2025 | Comments, Land Use
Dear Senate President Pro Tempore McGuire, Friends of the Eel River strongly opposes SB 607 (Wiener). One of the most important aspects of the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, is that it provides a means for everyday citizens and advocacy groups...
by Steelhead | May 10, 2025 | EcoNews Report, News, Slider
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) warns that when we experience the next Cascadia subduction zone earthquake, land near the coast may rise or fall significantly over a short period of time — think plus or minus five...
