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Dear Friends,
Thank you for being a champion for the Eel River watershed. The staff and board of Friends of the Eel River are truly grateful for being able to count on you as a partner in our efforts to protect and recover our beautiful watershed. With your support, we have made real and significant progress on ensuring our rivers, creeks, and estuaries regain the resilience they need to host healthy fisheries.
Please, can you make a year-end gift for the defense of the Eel River?
Click below to read about the progress FOER and our partners have made in several key program areas.
From the travesty of the North Coast Railroad Authority to the promise of the Great Redwood Trail
Growing demand for removing the Eel River dams
Eel River estuary restoration projects gaining steam
Despite this progress, we have a hard road ahead. Native fish populations are either stagnant or continuing to decline. Climate change exacerbates our challenges. If our salmon and steelhead are to survive, we also need:
- For water diverting interests and politicos to accept that the Eel River dams need to go so we can get started working on a real two-basin solution.
- Commitment to mitigating the cannabis industry's watershed impacts.
- Stronger collaboration to ensure the transition from the NCRA to the Great Redwood Trail.
- Greater protections for endangered salmon and steelhead.
In addition to doing what we can on the national level to right the sinking ship of our democracy, we also must increase our commitment to thinking and acting locally. This is not a mere platitude: It is in fact our most achievable goal. Despite the harm that the boom and bust extraction economies have wrought upon it, the Eel River is still renowned for its native fisheries, and scientists agree that it holds perhaps the greatest hope we have for recovering some of the abundance our rivers once had.
For 25 years now, Friends of the Eel River have been fighting to protect and recover this magnificent watershed. We use science, the law, and grassroots organizing to forge stronger, conservation biology-based protections for our region. Thank you for being such a steadfast member of the community defending the Eel River watershed.
Please give generously to help ensure our future ability to conduct this vital work.
With thanks and gratitude,
Stephanie Tidwell
Executive Director
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