by Steelhead | Apr 21, 2026 | Dam Removal, News, Slider
For Immediate Release Contact: Alicia Hamann, alicia@eelriver.org Eureka, CA – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued a message today alleging that a water district near Los Angeles is interested in purchasing the Eel River dams and the rest of the...
by Steelhead | Apr 16, 2026 | Comments, News, Slider
Nearly every year for the past decade, PG&E has been unable to meet their license required and contractual flows out of the Potter Valley Project. This is due to both climate change, and the many failures of the Project which prevent the reservoir from being fully...
by Steelhead | Mar 3, 2026 | Dam Removal, FOER, News, Slider
By Scott Greacen | Originally published in Issue No. 111 of The Osprey. As 2025 drew to a close, the big news on California’s Eel River was U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins’ unhinged and weird letter to the Federal Energy...
by Steelhead | Feb 1, 2026 | Comments, Dam Removal, FOER, News, Slider
Comments submitted on behalf of six groups: Friends of the Eel River, Sierra Club, Native Fish Society, Save California Salmon, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, and Northern California Council, Fly Fishers International. Scott Dam and Lake Pillsbury Cape...
by Steelhead | Dec 22, 2025 | News, FOER, Public Trust, Slider, Water Quality
Friends of the Eel River (FOER) has moved to appeal the Humboldt Superior Court’s September ruling denying our claim that Humboldt County has a duty under the Public Trust doctrine to consider the impacts of groundwater pumping on salmon holding in the lower Eel...
