This month’s steelhead discovery is not a story, but rather a hope for a future discovery in a free-flowing Eel River. PG&E submitted their final License Surrender Agreement to FERC…

In my writings for Native Fish Society on steelhead, I have not yet confessed to the fact that I am not a fisherman. I am a lover of rivers, canyons,…

In July I wrote about the feeling of coming home to the Middle Fork of the Eel River. In mid-August, I experienced my second river homecoming, this time to the…

Late July found me returning to a place that feels like home, the upper Middle Fork of the Eel. I had done the Middle Fork Eel summer steelhead dive survey…

Our field work for the summer steelhead distribution research is mostly complete. We have assembled an extensive collection of samples from the Mattole River in the south to the Rogue…

On May 17th, we had our second annual Free the Eel float. We floated the same stretch as last year, from the small community of McCann to the confluence with…

PG&E released their Final Draft License Surrender Agreement (LSA) for the Eel River Dams.This is one step before the Final LSA is released in early summer. In addition to the…

After Thanksgiving, we returned to the lab in Davis. We had finished up our field sampling inOctober, gathered the additional samples helpfully collected for us by the Yurok Tribe, BLM…

Our field season is nearing its end for this year. Most of it was spent exploring a variety of the forks, creeks, streams, and canyons of the Klamath-Trinity system. All…

We furthered our exploration of the mid-Klamath and Trinity tributaries this August. On a warm evening in early August, we stopped at a confluence pool to camp, took a dip,…