Members of a recently formed legal entity that hopes to continue diverting water from the Eel River to the Russian River after the Potter Valley Hydroelectric Project is decommissioned are celebrating the recent awarding of federal funds designed to help their efforts.
Members of a recently formed legal entity that hopes to continue diverting water from the Eel River to the Russian River after the Potter Valley Hydroelectric Project is decommissioned are celebrating the recent awarding of federal funds designed to help their efforts.
The Board of Supervisors and county administration excoriated Pacific Gas & Electric for bulldozing through a tentative plan to demolish a vital dam and whose absence can harm Lake County financially and ecologically.
Wilkes Central High School senior Quinn Pyke worked with Cleanup Wilkes to organize collection of litter at three locations for his senior project on Nov. 20.
OPINION- Mistakenly named in 1850 for eel-like lamprey, Eel River begins a 196 air-mile journey from Lake County. Approximately 84,000 acre feet of water flows down Bald Mountain to Lake Pillsbury forming a headwaters lake. The upper-watershed lake formed a bond with the land as it flooded a gravel filled shallow valley containing few summer pools. The pools formed by beavers disappeared by trapping many years before that. A historically wet valley once supported young fish survival and growth before their journey to the ocean.