Shot Up and Shut Down

by | 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...

Report States Parasite Blinded Salmon; Virus Found in Brains

by | 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...

The Reservoir Stops Here

by | 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...

The Secret Life of a Raindrop

by | Nov 12, 2015 | Uncategorized

According to a widely held belief, you can’t squeeze water from a rock. But researchers from UC Berkeley who are trying to better understand where water is stored in nature are challenging that old adage. By Amy Miller November 10, 2015 After nearly ten years of...