By Chris PoehlmannRecent local events could lend credence to the expression “water flows uphill to money”. Just when we thought we had seen everything as far as environmental threats to our river, two more contenders have surfaced. The wildest is an application with the California Division of Water Rights by an Alaskan based international company to get appropriative rights to …
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Public urged to help save river
by Tom Cochrane, President, Friends of the Gualala River, March, 2002 We live in a threatened world with limited natural resources and the concept of sustainability seems far from our grasp. Sustainability involves using our resources with as little harm to our environment as possible, but maintaining a healthy economy while still providing for equity among the potential users. Last …
Read More »FoGR – How to send a letter to the California Coastal Commission
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »FoGR: Woolsey Protests Gualala River Water Exportation
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Water Export – What to do
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
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Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »FoGR: Waterbag status update
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »FoGR: Waterbag Chronology
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Waterbag Campaign
Información en Español Davidge withdraws waterbag applications!December 13, 2002: After the Coastal Commission votes to oppose his waterbag scheme, Ric Davidge announces that he is withdrawing his applications to bag water from the Gualala and Albion Rivers. For information about the campaign that stopped Davidge, and about his new proposal to export water from the Mad River, see below. Gualala …
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Davidge withdraws waterbag applications! Friday, December 13, 2002: After the Coastal Commission votes to oppose his waterbag scheme, Ric Davidge announces that he is withdrawing his applications. [Details to follow as they become available]
Read More »Letter to US Army Corps of Engineers
To the US Army Corps of Engineers, April 2002 April 23, 2002 Lt. Col. Timothy ORourke District Engineer U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 333 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94105-2197 Dear Sir, We want to bring two applications that have been filed with the State Water Resources Control Board to your attention: # 31194 for the Albion River and …
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Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
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Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Resolution
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Water Export: Legal & Regulatory
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Resolution of the Redwood Coast Chamber of Commerce
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Questions and Davidge’s answers (part 2)
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Questions and Davidge’s answers (part 1)
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Austin’s Questions and Davidge’s answers
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
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Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
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Won’t back down – Friends of Gualala River continue protection efforts
by Tempra BoardThe Sea Ranch Soundings • Summer 2021 © copyright 2021, The Sea Ranch Associationreprinted with permission Friends of Gualala River (FoGR), our area’s grassroots watershed protection non-profit, continues its hard work defending the Gualala River from the threat of floodplain logging. On May 20, FoGR filed a motion for …
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Protecting Endangered Species:
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Gualala River logging project clears hurdle in state court as federal case ramps up
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Under California cap-and-trade program, North Coast forests turn carbon uptake into cash
by Guy Kovner, The Press Democrat, January 3, 2016 [excerpt:] They say money doesn’t grow on trees, but a nearly 75,000-acre swath of redwood and fir forests blanketing the wildlands of Sonoma and Mendocino counties is generating millions of dollars as it contributes to California’s ambitious campaign to curb greenhouse …
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Preservation Ranch saved in record deal – June, 2013, San Francisco Chronicle
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Sonoma Deal Aims to Combine Logging and Preservation
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Sonoma County redwood forest spared from conversion into vineyards