Not Alone in the Fight: Southern Steelhead Symposium 2026
More than 130 scientists, Tribal members, agency staff, advocates, and anglers gathered at the 2026 Southern Steelhead Symposium to share restoration progress, fish count data, and strategies for recovery. With Southern steelhead sightings increasing after recent rains, participants celebrated collaboration while confronting climate change, funding uncertainty, and the risks of the coming wet season.
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A CalTrout Screencast: McCloud River Flows Explained
Read more →: A CalTrout Screencast: McCloud River Flows ExplainedUpdate: Since we first posted this article and screencast, the McCloud Dam relicensing project has moved forward, albeit slowly. Fortunately, the flow regime we…
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California’s Fly Fishermen Facing Snow/Water Pack 253% of Normal For This Date
Read more →: California’s Fly Fishermen Facing Snow/Water Pack 253% of Normal For This DateCalifornia’s fly fishermen are facing a record snowpack and unseasonably cold spring weather — and a sizable spring runoff even that might render a…
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Trinity River Loses A Best Friend: Byron Leydecker, 1927-2011
Read more →: Trinity River Loses A Best Friend: Byron Leydecker, 1927-2011Last Thursday, California lost one of its coldwater fishery conservation giants, and the Trinity River lost perhaps its biggest “friend.” CalTrout is saddened to…
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CalTrout Teaches Boatload of Schoolkids About Invasive Species
Read more →: CalTrout Teaches Boatload of Schoolkids About Invasive SpeciesCalTrout/Americorp Member Taylor Currier helped a boatload (literally) of Tahoe schoolkids understand the impacts of nonnative species on Tahoe’s native fish populations. From the…
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CalTrout’s 40th Anniversary: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going
Read more →: CalTrout’s 40th Anniversary: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re GoingThis twelve minute video offers a striking look back at CalTrout’s early successes, and points the way forward: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/23688047[/vimeo]
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Twenty Years After the Upper Sacramento River Spill, ABC News Interviews CalTrout’s Curtis Knight
Read more →: Twenty Years After the Upper Sacramento River Spill, ABC News Interviews CalTrout’s Curtis Knight“There are still some improvements to be made” said CalTrout’s Curtis Knight, speaking on the 20th anniversary of the Cantara Loop train derailment and…