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Salmon and Farms: Restoring Wallowa Lake’s Lost Sockeye Salmon
In Northeast Oregon, tribes, irrigators, and state agencies are working together to repair the Wallowa Lake Dam and add fish passage, an effort that will protect regional water supplies and restore a historic salmon population that’s been missing for more than a century. Since time immemorial, the sockeye salmon that returned to Northeast Oregon’s Wallowa Lake were critical to the culture, traditions, and subsistence of the Nez Perce Tribe and Confederated…
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Restoring Owl Creek | Kʷokʷolísdo Ḳ̓á yika xa’bil-ts
A new film celebrates work Trout Unlimited and the Hoh Tribe are doing to restore salmon and steelhead habitat on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwvEiLY_Gns (“Kʷokʷolísdo Ḳ̓á yika xa’bil-ts” means “restoring Owl Creek” in Quileute, a Chimakuan language traditionally spoken in coastal indigenous communities. The translation was provided by the Hoh Tribe.) The Hoh is an…
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Beaver dam analogs: Let’s fix that flow!
Restoring public lands and water one dam at a time Across the country, Trout Unlimited and partners have built thousands of artificial beaver dams, reconnecting historic channels, recharging groundwater and providing year-round flow to small headwaters streams. Known as Beaver Dam Analogs (BDAs), these human-made beaver dams are essentially a porous wall of sticks, logs and…
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TU talks urgent issues (like the Roadless Rule rescission), and how to make your voice heard with Fly Fisherman
Ross Purnell, editor and publisher of Fly Fisherman, recently took a trip to Trout Unlimited’s headquarters in Arlington to sit down with Trout Unlimited president and CEO, Chris Wood, on the Loop to Loop podcast. During their nearly hour-long conversation, they discuss the urgent topics currently affecting coldwater resources and the what, the how and…
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From the President: Keep it Roadless
I was talking with a colleague today and he asked, “Why should I even bother to comment on the proposal to rescind the roadless rule? It won’t make a difference. They don’t care about my opinion.” I told him he was 100 percent wrong. Your voice matters. The public comment period on the proposal to…
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Sprague River – Restoring water and habitat in the Klamath headwaters
After over two decades of advocacy, negotiation and engineering, the four dams blocking the Klamath River came down over the course of 2023 – 2024. With the final barrier breached in September 2024, within weeks Chinook salmon were found in tributaries above the former dam sites. Since then, the fish have astounded biologists by quickly…
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Video of the Week – Rising from the Ashes
The Elwha dams came down and fish rushed back in. Like a phoenix, the fish rose from the ashes and rebounded more quickly than many thought possible. Like the story that’s underway on the Klamath in California, native trout, steelhead and salmon know how to make the most of a reconnected habitat. Now, let’s give…
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