The Eel River Reporter

Fall 2007

This issue carries the article about Sonoma County General Plan since it applies to all counties, it is a must read. You will also find articles about wonderful happenings at our new River Center in Fortuna, and reports from a few river clean-up efforts in many parts of this massive river system. Articles about the ongoing river clean-ups reveal a new level of threat to our drinking water and the health of our rivers by the new and increasing number of homeless drifting about this country. The numbers of people falling through the cracks and the effects on the watershed are staggering.

Spring 2007

River, Rail and Resources Concerning our National Wild & Scenic Eel River

Fall 2006

River News, River Views and River Stories from our National Wild & Scenic Eel River

Articles include: Stopping Global Warming and Saving the Eel River, Citizens Monitoring the Eel, Impressions of the Eel River, The Van Duzen Water Plan, Letter from SCWA to Santa Rosa, and more.

Featuring a Photo Tour of the Eastern Rim of the Eel Headwaters.

Spring 2006

River news, views, and local voices for conservation.

Fall/Winter 2005

This issue of the Eel River Reporter marks more than eleven years working to turn the deadly situation on the Eel River into one where life has a future. Includes a photographic journey down the entire Eel River intended to dispell myths.

Summer 2005

Reporting on the effort to save California's third-largest water system, Our National Wild and Scenic Eel River.

Features include: an invitation to participate in the 2005 Eel River Pikeminnow Derby; a look at restoration along the lower Van Duzen (tributary to the Eel); and features about the watershed, as well as Sonoma County to the South.



Winter 2004
2004 marks our tenth year of organizing efforts to bring down the PG&E Potter Valley Project and return all the water to the beleaguered Eel River. You will find articles in this issue that discuss developments in the Eel estuary, Sonoma's water future, FOER's latest legal moves, and a study from Dr. Dan Ihara on the economics of dam removal for Mendocino and Lake Counties.

Articles include; Pikeminnow - What & Why, Water for the next 150 Years, Legal Updates, Eel River Estuary, and Economics of Decommissioning

Spring 2003
Articles include news updates for the Eel River, Eel River hostage to Farm bureau interests, Marin considers desalination, Maxam Indundates Van Duzen, and Just who is SCWA.

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