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blog BY sam_davidson ON October 12 - 0 COMMENTS
Pinks and steelhead
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Pink salmon in its spawning phase. Fall is in the air and it’s time to get on the river. But first, let’s give our steelhead IQs another booster shot.. This week we have a guest writer and scientist, Colin Bailey, a PhD student studying fisheries science at Simon Fraser University under Jonathan [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON October 10 - 0 COMMENTS
The Last Steelhead
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  Longtime angling author, steelhead aficionado, TROUT Magazine contributor and musician Chris Santella has created a novel way to publicize the plight of wild steelhead. Santella's new rock opera, The Last Steelhead, looks at the factors contributing to the decline of wild steelhead runs and “the [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON September 27 - 0 COMMENTS
Not too hot, not too cold
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By Nick Chambers The greater Juneau area is home to several rivers that host wild steelhead runs. From a science perspective, Auke Creek is perhaps the most important of these, as scientists at the Auke Bay Marine Station have been operating a weir here for many years, which has allowed them to [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON September 7 - 0 COMMENTS
The fate of stranded post-spawn adult steelhead
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A central California coastal steelhead.   Editor's note: The following first appeared on the Wild Steelheaders United blog.  By John McMillan One significant way in which steelhead differ from salmon is that O. mykiss have the ability to survive spawning and try to make the journey again. This [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON August 14 - 0 COMMENTS
Voices from the river: The Holy Trinity
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Angler on California's Trinity River.  By Sam Davidson Every year, when the perseid meteor shower flings sparks across the night skies, I start thinking about fishing the Trinity River. The “Holy Trinity” is one of the best salmon and steelhead streams in California, and perhaps the Lower 48. In [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON August 9 - 0 COMMENTS
How TU defines success in the Klamath River basin
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TU's Tim Frahm swinging on the Klamath River near Weitchpec.  The legendary Klamath River is the third most productive watershed for salmon and steelhead on the West Coast, after only the Columbia and Sacramento Rivers systems. The Klamath is also Ground Zero for one of the most challenging water [ READ MORE... ]
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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 KyleSmith ON August 1 - 0 COMMENTS
TU responds to lapse of Chetco River mineral withdrawal
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The Chetco River, one of the finest salmon and steelhead fisheries in the West.  For more than a decade TU has worked with other fishing and conservation groups to protect coastal salmon and steelhead streams in southwest Oregon from mining and other types of resource development that could harm [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON July 31 - 0 COMMENTS
Voices from the River: Extreme behavior
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The iconic Sundial Bridge, spanning the Lower Sacramento River in downtown Redding, California before and during the Carr Fire.   By Sam Davidson California is burning. There are 17 wildfires charring the Golden State, at present. The biggest and gnarliest (of 2018, anyway) is the Carr Fire, which [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON July 27 - 0 COMMENTS
TU lauds new public lands bill for NW California
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The northwest corner of California, between the Russian and Klamath Rivers, is home to some of the best remaining salmon and steelhead streams in the West. This region boasts some of the most famous steelhead fisheries in the world, including the Trinity, Mad, Mattole, and Eel River systems. Trout [ READ MORE... ]
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