About Friends of the Gualala River

Mission
Friends of the Gualala River (FoGR) is a non-profit, grassroots watershed protection association formed to share common concerns and research regarding the welfare of the Gualala River, its estuary and habitat. FoGR's goal is to protect the Gualala River watershed and the species that rely on it.

Friends of the Gualala River needs your support, as members and volunteers. Our Get Involved section can help you get started.

Location

Gualala River watershed
[click to enlarge]

The Gualala River enters the Pacific Ocean approximately 110 miles north of San Francisco, marking the border of Mendocino and Sonoma Counties. Just past the mouth of the river lies the town of Gualala, a three-hour drive from San Francisco over narrow, twisting roads and stunning ocean and mountain views. Tourism and logging are the primary local industries.

FoGR Officers

John Holland, President
Chris Poehlmann, Vice President
Jim Jordan, Secretary
Mike Lane, Treasurer

Contact Us
For more information about FoGR and its current activities, please send email to info@gualalariver.org. You may also send US mail, including your tax-deductible contributions, to:

Friends of the Gualala River
P.O. Box 1543
Gualala, CA 95445

For technical questions about this site, please send email to webmaster@gualalariver.org.

Mailing list
Add your email address to our mailing list for action bulletins and updates (weekly or monthly).

Privacy notice: Friends of the Gualala River will NOT share the names and email addresses on this list with any other organization.

Photos

Photo Tour of the Gualala River watershed
showing its natural beauty as well as damage caused by unsustainable human activity.
Flyover of the Gualala River
with over 1,100 aerial photos & a Google Earth interface.
Photos of the Gualala coast
-- from the California Coastal Records Project.

Archives

History
Friends of the Gualala River was formed in 1992 by a group of local residents in response to timber harvesting near a popular, heavily wooded campground on the north bank of the river.

The group was reinvigorated in 2002 by public outrage over the proposed waterbag scheme. Tom Cochrane's article in the Independent Coast Observer, "Public urged to help save river", announced FoGR's renewed energy as an advocate for the defense of the watershed.

Affiliation
Friends of the Gualala River is affiliated with the Redwood Coast Watersheds Alliance (RCWA), a California non-profit, public benefit corporation. Donations to FoGR are tax-deductible.

The RCWA is comprised of community watershed protection associations in Mendocino County and has been monitoring logging activities in Mendocino County since 1990. It has brought several successful suits against timber companies for illegal logging practices.

Acknowledgements
ICO Press Articles are provided courtesy of the Independent Coast Observer, Gualala, CA.

Friends of the Gualala River is a member of the Redwood Coast Chamber of Commerce.

The disk space for this website is donated as a community service by the Mendocino Community Network.