River Watch

The Hoopa Valley Tribal Council met for their regularly scheduled meeting Thursday, May 3 at 5:30 pm. After two hours in closed session, the council made a public motion to move the management of the Tribe’s website from the Chairman’s assistant to the Two Rivers Tribune. Read More →

In summer 2011 the Hoopa Tribal EPA completed the third year of the Lower Trinity Source Water Assessment Project (SWAP). Funded by the U.S. EPA, the Tribal EPA (TEPA) has been conducting assessments of the Trinity River from the South fork on down to the tribe’s drinking water intake in Hoopa since 2007 Read More →

It was no surprise that the Bureau of Reclamation would have a table at the World Water Forum. The event, this year in Marseilles, France, was really a gathering for many of globalism’s biggest corporations and the BOR was there to parade their operation of 366 dams across the U.S. Read More →

We are now in the Trinity River spring releases. We are also receiving a very good snow melt that is bringing up the river even more then the releases are. Because the water and snow conditions were so severe the last week of March and the first week of April, BOR determined that the ROD Water Year should be moved into the “Normal” water range which gave the Trinity River about 20KAF more than was originally planned at the March 9 Water Working Group meeting. Read More →

As they say “If you don’t like the river conditions just wait and it will change.” Well it has changed! Just as the Trinity was becoming fishable on the lower section the spring releases started. The spring releases started Saturday night and are going up to 6,000 cfs by May 6, then hold for four days and start decreasing to 4,500cfs by May 11. Read More →

Wendell Wood, Wildlands Interpreter for Oregon Wild (www.oregonwild.org), will present a slide/talk on Oregon Wild’s conservation concerns in the Upper Klamath Basin of Northern California and Southern Oregon on Monday, April 23, 7pm at the Arcata D Street Community Center. Read More →

This week (Wednesday and Thursday) the Cal Fish & Game Commission met at the Red Lion Inn in Eureka. On my way into Eureka it snowed on me while going over Berry Summit on Highway 299. Read More →

While more than a million Chinook salmon swim the ocean off the coast of the Klamath River, the people of Hoopa and Yurok territories eagerly await the fish’s return this fall. The Hoopa Tribe is working to develop a plan to harvest its share. Read More →