Wild Trout West

07/13/2022

05/01/2021

We're still here: just swimming extra hard on projects like this!

The innovative project could aid endangered native species — and provide a useful roadmap for other dam-removal efforts.

12/22/2020

This group is spearheading efforts to restore steelhead waters throughout the central coast. Their tireless work has already brought great success to The Pajaro. Now their efforts are focused on the San Benito drainage: one that has been neglected and littered upon for decades.

Please consider donating to their very worthy cause

10/05/2020

Great changes are afin

U.S. and tribal officials are celebrating completion of a $34 million fish bypass system at a Nevada dam that will allow a threatened trout species to return to some of its native spawning grounds for the first time in more than a century. Construction of the side channel with fish-friendly screens....

01/30/2020

With Pacific Northwest salmon and steelhead on the brink of extinction, there are new efforts being brokered to save the famed fish.

01/29/2020

Extremely likely.

11/12/2019

By EcoLogic films for California Trout and The Nature Conservancy. The Hart Ranch Project on Little Shasta River is working to bring salmon back to a section of…

11/08/2019

Thanks to Kurt Thomas, a life-long farmer and rancher in the Klamath Basin and owner of KC Thomas Cattle Co., for submitting this letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in support of the transfer of the lower Klamath dams to KRRC. In his letter, Mr. Thomas highlights the facts that the dams “provide zero water for irrigation” and “provide zero water for flood control.” He concludes with, “my personal opinion is that dam removal will result in a terrific outcome where benefits to conservation and the local environment combine with positive economic growth in the local business and agricultural communities to form a win-win for the Upper Klamath Basin.” We couldn’t agree more!

11/04/2019

Natural abundance has its limits, especially when you dam the path to the breeding grounds-- as was the case with the giant Chinook salmon of the Pacific northwest.…

10/25/2019

Interested in the different job opportunities available on the Klamath dam removal project? This outlines the approximately 400 full-time or part-time positions through contracts, subcontracts and direct hiring for planning, construction, monitoring and remediation work. Visit the “Jobs & RFP Opportunities” page of our website for more info: http://www.klamathrenewal.org/jobs/

10/23/2019

The project to remove the four lower Klamath River dams is an example of bipartisanship that can inform efforts to collaborate today, writes former state Sen. Jason Atkinson.

10/22/2019

Rafting the Klamath River Ahead of the Biggest Dam Removal in History by Jeff Moag | Oct 10, 2019 | Essays | 7 comments Essays Rafting the Klamath River Ahead of the Biggest Dam Removal in History By Jeff Moag | October 10, 2019 [wpfp-link] Hamburg is not a very menacing name by whitewater standards...