by Lamprey | Jul 8, 2016 | FOER, News
A four-year effort by a coalition of diverse stakeholders along California’s third largest river, the Eel River, recently culminated in the completion of a new plan aimed at restoring the watershed’s once thriving fish runs and ecosystems. The plan’s creation was...
by Lamprey | Apr 21, 2016 | News
Abnormally large waves at the entrance of Humboldt Bay caused by its shallow depth are creating treacherous conditions for boaters and barges as well as impacting shipments in and out of the bay, local officials state. While the bay is set to be dredged next month due...
by Lamprey | Apr 12, 2016 | News
Why one farmer blocked off the Eel River bar It’s a rare warm day in late February, a full month before spring is officially declared, and the pastures are yellow with mustard blossoms, and the Eel River is surging beneath the concrete arches of Fernbridge, the...
by Lamprey | Mar 23, 2016 | News
A fluke can sometimes refer to a stroke of good luck or chance, but not in the context of the animal kingdom. 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...
by Lamprey | Dec 4, 2015 | News
By Will Parrish Part I October 15, 2015 On the edge of the Yolly Bolly Wilderness, about 15 miles north of the dusty cattle and marijuana town of Covelo, 81-year-old Richard Wilson sits across from me in a ranch house his father constructed here in the 1940s. For much...
