Our California is brimming with jaw-dropping landscapes, breathtaking rivers, and those elusive, dazzling fish that zip beneath the surface. While best experienced in person, California also looks amazing on camera! Until the end of August, submit some of your best shots to our annual photo contest. This year, we look forward to seeing what inspires you and particularly what inspires the people you might be with – on a camping or fishing trip with friends, a weekend family outing to a local waterway, or perhaps an experience you’ve shared with our community on a river or stream (maybe your photos from competing in the Five Rivers Challenge?).
Summer is always especially magical. One of my favorite places to be is down in the Southern half of our state. CalTrout staff are busier than ever in our South Coast region. At Trabuco Creek, South Coast Regional Director Sandra Jacobson, Ph.D., provides an update on the bridge that runs through it – and what CalTrout is doing about it to help reconnect Southern steelhead with their historic habitat. At Malibu Creek, we are embedded in the community supporting public outreach and workshops as we work to remove Rindge Dam. Southern steelhead don’t always get the same attention as their northern counterparts, but they are a species that is quite literally in hot water and our South Coast team is racing against the clock to save them from disappearing. Thank you, as always, for supporting us in these efforts!
It probably won’t come as a surprise to you when I tell you, I love California. The CalTrout community is so special to me because I know that we collectively share this sentiment, and we want to do everything we can to make it a better place for our fish, our waters, and most importantly, our people. Celebrate your love of this beautiful state with our exclusive, brand new “We love you California” prints designed by 3 Fish Studios just for CalTrout. Get yours now at the very bottom of this newsletter or click here.
Enjoy the rest of your summer!
Curtis
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Peter Moyle is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology and Associate Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences, at UC Davis. He is author or co-author of more than 240 publications, including the definitive Inland Fishes of California (2002). He is co-author of the 2017 book, Floodplains: Processes and Management for Ecosystem Services. His research interests include conservation of aquatic species, habitats, and ecosystems, including salmon; ecology of fishes of the San Francisco Estuary; ecology of California stream fishes; impact of introduced aquatic organisms; and use of floodplains by fish.
Robert Lusardi is the California Trout/UC Davis Wild and Coldwater Fish Researcher focused on establishing the basis for long-term science specific to California Trout’s wild and coldwater fish initiatives. His work bridges the widening gap between academic science and applied conservation policy, ensuring that rapidly developing science informs conservation projects throughout California. Dr. Lusardi resides at the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences and works closely with Dr. Peter Moyle on numerous projects to help inform California Trout conservation policy. His recent research interests include Coho salmon on the Shasta River, the ecology of volcanic spring-fed rivers, inland trout conservation and management, and policy implications of trap and haul programs for anadromous fishes in California.
Patrick Samuel is the Conservation Program Coordinator for California Trout, a position he has held for almost two years, where he coordinates special research projects for California Trout, including the State of the Salmonids report. Prior to joining CalTrout, he worked with the Fisheries Leadership & Sustainability Forum, a non-profit that supports the eight federal regional fishery management councils around the country. Patrick got his start in fisheries as an undergraduate intern with NOAA Fisheries Protected Resources Division in Sacramento, and in his first field job as a crew member of the California Department of Fish & Wildlife’s Wild and Heritage Trout Program.