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blog BY sam_davidson ON August 5 - 0 COMMENTS
The long game: TU and the Yuba River
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Getting bent on the lower Yuba River. The Yuba River is one of California’s many coldwater fishery jewels. In its upper forks the Yuba is a fine freestone trout stream; in the reach between Englebright Dam, where the river flows into the Central Valley, and its confluence with the Feather River [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON July 12 - 0 COMMENTS
Sierra Trout Camp 2018
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  By Tom Kloehn It was the first day of Sierra Trout Camp 2018, and even though the kids weren’t fishing yet, it was hard to miss their enthusiasm for any chance to get near a river. The kids were bouncing around the creek, splashing in and out of the water, completely oblivious to rocks and soaked [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON April 24 - 0 COMMENTS
Voices from the River: 1 day, 820 trees
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Steinbeck Country TU Chapter family member Cassie Frahm with a willow she planted in an old sand trap on the former Rancho Canada golf course on Earth Day 2018.   By Sam Davidson You may have heard that there are a lot of dead trees in California these days. Over the Earth Day weekend, TU’s [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON September 8 - 0 COMMENTS
Late summer highlights in CA: 2017 Casting Call, salmon habitat partnership
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TU's VP for Western Conservation, Rob Masonis, and other signers of the new Central Valley Salmon Habitat Partnership flank California Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird at the signing ceremony on August 29, 2017.   By Sam Davidson During the hottest and driest time of year here in [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON September 1 - 0 COMMENTS
Yuba River relicensing: TU comments
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Yuba River Chinook salmon. Photo: Jacob Katz   On August 25, a coalition of conservation and recreational groups, including Trout Unlimited, submitted formal comments on proposed requirements for relicensing dam and diversion operations on the Yuba River, one of California’s most important—and [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON April 27 - 0 COMMENTS
Trump monuments order affects native trout, popular fisheries in California, SW Oregon
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Native Redband trout, Jenny Creek, Cascade Siskiyou National Monument.   Yesterday President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) requiring the Department of the Interior to review all national monuments designated since 1996 which are (a) over 100,000 acres in size; (b) were expanded during that [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON April 13 - 0 COMMENTS
Proposed dam threatens CA's Bear River
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Fishing the Bear River. This reach would be inundated by the proposed Centennial Dam. By Chandra Ferrari With California just emerging from five years of punishing drought, there continues to be a lot of discussion about creating more water storage. While the fastest and most affordable way to [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON January 17 - 0 COMMENTS
'Significant and unavoidable' impacts: suction dredge mining in California
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As the California Water Board considers new water quality regulations for suction dredge mining, TU urges anglers to weigh in   People are still mining for gold here in the Golden State, often through small scale operations using machinery to suck water and gravel from streambeds so bits of gold [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON December 23 - 0 COMMENTS
TU in California: 2016 Highlights
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By Brian Johnson It’s been a busy and amazingly productive year for Trout Unlimited in California. With the help of our 10,000 California members and our dozens of agency and project partners, we reached major milestones on many of our highest priority initiatives. All of these highlight TU’s [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON December 16 - 0 COMMENTS
New flow standards key to recovering Central Valley salmon and steelhead
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Central Valley salmon and steelhead runs, such as those in California's Merced River (above), have been in decline for decades due primarily to lack of water at critical times. Phase I of the Bay-Delta Plan, in which the State Water Board is considering new flow standards for environmental water [ READ MORE... ]
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