Tag: steelhead
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Trout Unlimited Wins Award for California Partnership Uniting Landowners to Save Coho Salmon
Chris Wood, President and CEO of Trout Unlimited, speaks to staff from Trout Unlimited, NOAA Fisheries, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and others during the presentation of an award to Trout Unlimited April 26. The award recognized TU’s restoration of habitat crucial to endangered Central California Coast coho salmon. Photo by Katja Bresch. U.S.…
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Kindergarteners release trout into Feather River
Photo: Kindergarteners observe steelhead trout recently at Butte Vista Elementary School in Yuba City. Standing on the boat ramp at 80 Second St. in Yuba City, two kindergarten classes at Butte Vista Elementary School released steelhead trout into the Feather River last week. Suzanne Price, a kindergarten teacher at Butte Vista Elementary, said she started…
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New Salmon Successes
Photo: Carmichael’s iconic water tower is a sentinel near a newly established salmon nesting habitat near Ancil Hoffman Park. Biologists Maeghen Wedgeworth and Matt Ziemer drop markers prior to measuring underwater nests. Photo by Susan Maxwell Skinner SACRAMENTO REGION, CA (MPG) – Within weeks of a $3.6 million Water Forum project completion in October, giant chinook were spawning…
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AG ALERT: Farmers, tribes weigh in on river flows for salmon
Farmers, ranchers, tribal members and others who rely on water from the Scott River and Shasta River watersheds turned out last week to offer insights to state officials considering an emergency regulation to set minimum flows on the tributaries. The gathering at an informational workshop on Oct. 6 in Sacramento came in response to a…
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Federal researchers say two widely used pesticides harm many endangered fish species
Photo: A coho salmon in spawning colors. The National Marine Fisheries Service says that continued use of insect-killing chemicals containing carbaryl or methomyl likely jeopardizes dozens of endangered fish species — including Chinook salmon, coho salmon, sockeye salmon, and steelhead in the Columbia, Willamette and Snake rivers. Rick Swart / Oregon Department of Fish and…
