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Facing a logging plan in your neighborhood?Join u s on June 20 in Southern Humboldt to find out how to file public comments on Timber Harvest Plans. Co-hosted by EPIC and Forests Unlimited.

Timber Harvest Plan Public Comment Workshop Learn how to read, understand, and make comments on proposed logging plans!

Link to the Elsinore Water District's bi-monthly meeting TODAY May 14 at 4pm HERE: https://onbase.evmwd.com/EVMWDAgendas/Meetings/ViewMeeting?id=3106&doctype=1

Stop the Southern California water grab!

ACTION ALERT: Show up at tomorrow's virtual Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District board meeting to support a free flowing Eel River. Click here for instructions on how to join the meeting and participate in public comment: https://mailchi.mp/caltrout/eel-action-may2026

Eel River dam removal is under threat, and we need your help. By now you may have seen the news that Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District (EVMWD), a water district in Riverside County, roughly 600 miles south of the Eel River, is exploring options to purchase the Potter Valley Project, the system of dams on the Eel River. If successful, this action could delay, or potentially derail, the restoration of one of California's most important salmon and steelhead rivers.

CalTrout has spent years working alongside the Round Valley Indian Tribes, Sonoma Water, Humboldt County, the Mendocino County Inland Water and Power Commission, and our conservation partners to build the Two-Basin Solution. This community crafted solution removes the Eel River dams, restores salmon habitat blocked for over a century, and maintains water supply stability for the Russian River basin. The EVMWD proposal threatens all of it.

Let's be clear about what the Potter Valley Project actually is today: a failed hydroelectric project that hasn't generated power since 2021. No serious entity has volunteered to take this on because the liability is enormous and the economics don't work.

So why would a water district 600 miles away be interested? That's exactly the question we want YOU to ask at the Elsinore Water District Board Meeting tomorrow. Attend the virtual EVMWD board meeting TOMORROW, May 14 at 4pm on Zoom.

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