A River Reborn: One Year After Klamath River Dam Removal
In fall 2024, CalTrout and our partners installed a SONAR fish counting station at the entrance to newly reopened habitat on the Klamath River. Our data is in and tells us that more than 7,700 Chinook salmon swam upriver of the former Iron Gate Dam site.
ARTICLES BY CALTROUT STAFF
Field notes, updates, and stories from this author.
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Fly Fishermen Advised to Wade Carefully (or, That Next Step’s a Doozie)
Read more →: Fly Fishermen Advised to Wade Carefully (or, That Next Step’s a Doozie)High runoff on the Truckee River is making for a busy search & rescue team (from the Sacramento Bee): The Reno Fire Department’s water…
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Southern California: Steelhead Coalition Meets
Read more →: Southern California: Steelhead Coalition MeetsIn 2000, after securing a federal “endangered” listing for Southern California steelhead, CalTrout helped found the Southern California Steelhead Recovery Coalition (SCSC)- a collection…
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Biologist Peter Moyle Discusses Effects of Suction Dredge Mining
Read more →: Biologist Peter Moyle Discusses Effects of Suction Dredge MiningWhile the suction dredge issue in California may be moot for the next five years if the current budget deal holds, uber-biologist Peter Moyle…
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It’s Not Too Late To Preserve Southern California Steelhead — But We Have To Stop Ignoring Them…
Read more →: It’s Not Too Late To Preserve Southern California Steelhead — But We Have To Stop Ignoring Them…Southern California is home to a surprising number of steelhead streams, most of which are imperiled in one form or another. California Trout’s Southern…
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PG&E Says McCloud River Flows About to Increase
Read more →: PG&E Says McCloud River Flows About to IncreaseThe McCloud River has been quite fishable so far this spring, but an end to the unseasonably cool springtime weather in the northern end…
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Warm Weather Spikes Flows in Califoria’s Pit River
Read more →: Warm Weather Spikes Flows in Califoria’s Pit RiverThe arrival of warmer weather (finally) in California is having the anticipated effect on the snowpack, and the Pit River — very popular among…