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We’re back on Clean Water Act defense
Don’t let up now. Healthy fish and clean streams need your help. When it comes to defending the Clean Water Act, it seems there’s no time to rest. It was only a couple of months ago that we celebrated a return to a common-sense definition of which rivers, streams and wetlands count as “Waters of…
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Meet Alexa, TU Alaska’s new Kenai Peninsula Engagement Coordinator
Alexa Millward is the new Kenai Peninsula engagement coordinator for Trout Unlimited’s Alaska Program. Alexa will spend her time working in communities across the Kenai Peninsula to engage residents and visitors in conservation and restoration projects. There is a lot happening on the peninsula, from the restoration of Resurrection Creek in Hope, to fish habitat…
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Solution seekers vs. the ‘Refuse to Try’ camp
It’s time for the powers that be to work together to do something big on the Snake River Editor’s note: This article by Rob Masonis, Walt Pollack, and Bryan Jones was originally published in the Spokesman-Review. What do we – a former energy executive, an Eastern Washington wheat farmer, and a long-time salmon advocate and…
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Feeding mind, body and soul
Feeding Mind, Body and Soul: The art of subsistence by Marian GiannulisAll photos courtesy of Apay’u Moore Traditional fishing methods build community and well-being in the heart of Bristol Bay Sixty percent of the meat Apay’u Moore consumes in any given year is harvested through subsistence methods. Salmon are caught with set nets anchored to…
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Your Snake Questions – Answered
Here are six frequently asked questions about taking down the dams and restoring critical populations of wild fish in the Basin.
We are experiencing some of our worst returns on record for wild salmon and steelhead. Over the past 25 years, the Snake Basin has averaged less than two returning adults for every 100 smolt. Biologists from Oregon and Idaho, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and various tribes estimate that Snake River dam breaching will…
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The Snake needs your help
Lower Snake Dam Removal campaign is seeking applicants for the new Snake River Ambassador Program By 2080, the Snake River Basin will contain an astounding 65% of all coldwater habitat available to salmon and steelhead in the Lower 48. The scientific evidence is clear: a free-flowing Lower Snake River is necessary to recover wild salmon…
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Living up to its name: Resurrection Creek
How many partners does it take to restore a salmon stream? A conservation organization, a mining company, and the U.S. Forest Service sit down to plan a project . . . That may sound like the start of a joke, but it is the reality behind the effort to restore a salmon stream in…