Eel River updates

StEELhead Discoveries Series - Part 13: September 2024

*This is Part 13 of an ongoing series on the campaign to Free the Eel and efforts to better understand and revive the iconic steelhead in the Pacific Northwest by Native Fish Society Fellow...

StEELhead Discoveries Series - Part 12: August 2024

*This is Part 12 of an ongoing series on the campaign to Free the Eel and efforts to better understand and revive the iconic steelhead in the Pacific Northwest by Native Fish Society Fellow...

StEELhead Discoveries Series - Part 11: July 2024

*This is Part 11 of an ongoing series on the campaign to Free the Eel and efforts to better understand and revive the iconic steelhead in the Pacific Northwest by Native Fish Society Fellow...

StEELhead Discoveries Series - Part 10: June 2024

*This is Part 10 of an ongoing series on the campaign to Free the Eel and efforts to better understand and revive the iconic steelhead in the Pacific Northwest by Native Fish Society Fellow...

StEELhead Discoveries Series - Part 9: May 2024

*This is Part 9 of an ongoing series on the campaign to Free the Eel and efforts to better understand and revive the iconic steelhead in the Pacific Northwest by Native Fish Society Fellow Samantha...

StEELhead Discoveries Series - Part 8

*This is Part 8 of an ongoing series on the campaign to Free the Eel and efforts to better understand and revive the iconic steelhead in the Pacific Northwest by Native Fish Society Fellow Samantha...

StEELhead Discoveries Series - Part 7

*This is Part 7 of an ongoing series on the campaign to Free the Eel and efforts to better understand and revive the iconic steelhead in the Pacific Northwest by Native Fish Society Fellow Samantha...

StEELhead Discoveries Series - Part 6

*This is Part 6 of an ongoing series on the campaign to Free the Eel and efforts to better understand and revive the iconic steelhead in the Pacific Northwest by Native Fish Society Fellow Samantha...

StEELhead Discoveries Series - Part 5

*This is Part 5 of an ongoing series on the campaign to Free the Eel and efforts to better understand and revive the iconic steelhead in the Pacific Northwest by Native Fish Society Fellow Samantha...

StEELhead Discoveries Series - Part 4

*This is Part 4 of an ongoing series on the campaign to Free the Eel and efforts to better understand and revive the iconic steelhead in the Pacific Northwest by Native Fish Society Fellow Samantha...

StEELhead Discoveries Series - Part 3

*This is Part 3 of an ongoing series on the campaign to Free the Eel and efforts to better understand and revive the iconic steelhead in the Pacific Northwest by Native Fish Society Fellow Samantha...

StEELhead Discoveries Series - Part 2

*This is Part 2 of an ongoing series on the campaign to Free the Eel and efforts to better understand and revive the iconic steelhead in the Pacific Northwest by Native Fish Society Fellow Samantha...

StEELhead Discoveries Series - Part 1

*This is Part 1 of an ongoing series on the campaign to Free the Eel and efforts to better understand and revive the iconic steelhead in the Pacific Northwest by Native Fish Society Fellow Samantha...

Following the Steelhead - Through Northern California

I spent the summer and fall of 2020 and 2021 meandering across the rivers and creek of Northern California, looking for juvenile O. mykiss. I swam, walked, minked (slithering over rocks and jumping...

Orphaned Dams on the Eel River

Historically, the Eel River had some of the largest runs of salmonids in California. At present, it has no hatcheries and four out of its five forks are undammed. The main fork has two dams in its...

New Science Shines Light on Eel River Steelhead Ecology

n northwestern California there are two distinct runs of steelhead, winter-run and summer-run. Winter-run enter freshwater sexually mature, in the late fall through early spring, swim to their...

Looking ahead for the Eel River and the Potter Valley Project

A great deal has happened over the last four years since we started our temperature monitoring work throughout the headwaters of California’s Eel River to prepare for the relicensing of the Potter...

River Steward Program Newsletter Winter 2018

We are starting to see rains show up earlier in southern Oregon than I can remember in the past couple of years, and I hope that this is the beginning to a long wet winter here in the Northwest. ...