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event BY ChristopherJ ON November 3 - 0 COMMENTS
Skagit River Speyapalooza December 2
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Please join the North Sound Chapter on December 2, at Howard Miller Steelhead Park as we host the 1st Skagit River Speyapalooza.      
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blog BY sam_davidson ON August 18 - 0 COMMENTS
Fire and Steel 
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The Soberanes Fire on California’s central coast offers some lessonsfor protecting and restoring steelhead habitat before and during wildfires   By Tim Frahm California’s central coast is world renowned for its rugged, scenic beauty. But relatively few know of the technical steelhead angling found... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON September 25 - 1 COMMENTS
Steelhead, rainbows and 'sneaking' 
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By John McMillan A few days ago, after some of my favorite rivers had reopened to angling, I made the 40 minute drive to Forks, Washington, to fish for cutthroat. The river (which shall go unnamed) was slightly tannin-stained due to recent rains. Fortunately, those rains had boosted streamflows... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON August 11 - 0 COMMENTS
The cannabis conundrum 
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This graphic of a tributary to the Eel River shows the intense marijuana cultivation typical of many drainages in California's Emerald Triangle. The large red circles indicate outdoor grows of more than 100 plants and the pot farms in this drainage alone require more than 15 million gallons of... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON April 7 - 0 COMMENTS
Steelhead and dry flies 
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The Trinity River and the harrowing Highway 299.   By Sam Davidson The best thing about rivers – beside the fact they may harbor trout -- is that they’re paths into the future, and the past. Always drawing you around the bend, to something new. Or old. DSCF0082.jpg Roads, sensibly, often... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON March 10 - 0 COMMENTS
TU California awarded $5.5 million in restoration grants 
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Key coho and steelhead streams like the Noyo River will get a big dose of restoration over the next several years.   By Sam Davidson The winter of 2015 is shaping up to be another historically dry "wet season" in California. California's stubborn drought -- now in its fourth year -- is hard on... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON July 9 - 0 COMMENTS
The Skunk and the salmon 
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Lisa Bolton and Anna Halligan, TU's North Coast Coho Project team, are stoked about getting "skunked."   By Sam Davidson IMG_1079.JPG It is only 25 miles, as the crow flies, between the hamlets of Fort Bragg and Willits, near the southern end of California’s fabled Lost Coast. But when... [ READ MORE... ]
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video BY ON September 27 - 0 COMMENTS
Backcountry 
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Blue lining border wars: Video from a trip into the backcountry. Go to www.oursportingheritage.org to read Tom Reed's blog post about it.
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blog BY ON September 27 - 0 COMMENTS
Two natives, two friends, two streams 
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  by Tom Reed New country and old friends. A foundation, a beginning. An idea. Each year we’d each pick a stream on our borders, a thin blue line of water splashing from high mountain hold in country without roads, and few trails. If it were easy, we thought, anybody could do it and the fishing... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON September 26 - 0 COMMENTS
Philosophy of the sporting life: A meditation on why. 
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Editor's note: This is part of an ongoing series by members of TU's Sportsmen's Conservation Project. For more, visit www.oursportingheritage.org, a site dedicated to protecting our backcountry resources.   There was a summer I spent as a wild child in the mountains of Iowa. There are no mountains... [ READ MORE... ]
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