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Advocacy
PUSHING fOR fUNDING AND POlICY IN SACRAMENTO
Working in the state’s capital is an important part of CalTrout’s working model. We work
in regions throughout the state where wild  sh and local communities reside. We solve complex resource issues that bene t wild  sh and people. We scale up and leverage these successes in Sacramento, through advocacy for new policies and state funding directed
at these programs. In turn, the bene ts of new policies and funding return to these communities. It is a successful feedback loop.
With the current legislative session just ending, we are pleased to report the successful passing of Senate Bill 5, the new ‘Park Bond.’ This funding bill still needs the governor’s signature (likely) and then goes to the voters next year for passage.
If passed, the $4.1 billion would go toward water and park projects in California. It also includes funding for the newly formed Central Valley Salmon Habitat Partnership, for multi-
bene t  oodplain projects in the Central Valley, and secured funding for Matilija dam removal.
We also supported AB 109. This Greenhouse Gas Reduction fund bill approves various investments to  ght climate change, including funding for meadow restoration. The recognition of mountain meadow restoration as an important step toward combatting climate change validates CalTrout’s meadows work, developed in
the Sierra region, and will ultimately grow and expand these efforts.
Our advocacy work in Sacramento is an integral part of our efforts to ensure statewide funding and policy bene tting trout, salmon, and steelhead.
Bringing home environmental realities through direct experience strengthens our advocacy work in Sacramento. CalTrout facilitated a  oodplain workshop for restoration practitioners and agency scientists from around the state and led an all-day  eld trip of Sacramento Valley water infrastructure. Attendees got to see some of the weirs and bypass systems that were constructed over a century ago with little consideration for  sh and  sh migration. Photo: Mike Wier
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