State funding helps secure new properties on the Eel River
Yet despite its ecological richness, very little of the land on either side of the [Eel River] has been protected, as 90 percent of this land remains in private hands, and very little of it is currently accessible to the public. This could change soon, however, if two ambitious initiatives to protect this wild country bisected by the Eel and make it accessible to the public come to fruition. And both those initiatives received a boost from the new state budget just passed by the California Legislature (and, as of this writing, still awaiting Governor Newsom’s signature).