In 1993, the Russian River was deemed to be in peril. Thus began the birth of Russian Riverkeeper, the champion for a healthy river. The fundamental purpose of Russian Riverkeeper is to ensure that now and in the future Russian River is drinkable, swimmable, [...]

2024 Update! Arundo Removal is in Full Swing for Summer With the help of the Resilience Force crew, we have ramped up our Arundo removal for the summer season. The Arundo Removal Project aims to eradicate Arundo donax, an invasive, fire-prone, water hog plant [...]

Paul Dolan: Industry Pioneer, Mentor, and Family Focused Photo courtesy of the Dolan family. Everyone at Russian Riverkeeper sends our deepest condolences to the family of Paul Dolan who passed on July 26th. Paul made a tremendous and positive impact on our [...]

The welcome rains in January came with a deluge of trash swept into the river by the forces of nature. Although not as bad as 2019, Clean Team assessments have found an abundance of new trash from urban area storm drains, camps, farms, and [...]

Here are just some of the good reasons to stick with our conservation habit: Let’s keep water where it is, as much as possible. The more water we use, the more water has to be released from reservoirs or drawn up from groundwater wells.  [...]

    2022 Lookback

This past October we sent our amazing staff Attorney, Jaime Neary, to the 31st annual Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite put on by the California Lawyers Association. Four days of learning from some of our State’s best environmental legal minds and the opportunity to [...]

In our June newsletter, we discussed water quality testing our staff participated in through Waterkeeper Alliance to learn whether we had PFAS compounds present in our watershed. Our results returned! We have detected some PFAS compounds in wastewater discharge to the river. Fortunately, concentrations [...]