Gualala River updates

River Steward Program Newsletter Winter 2018

We are starting to see rains show up earlier in southern Oregon than I can remember in the past couple of years, and I hope that this is the beginning to a long wet winter here in the Northwest. ...

River Stewards to NOAA: Protect wild fish, not artificial production.

On December 20th, 2016 78 River Stewards from throughout the Northwest submitted the following letter to NOAA-National Marine... Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposal to include hatchery programs as part of Pacific salmon and steelhead species listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). As a diverse...

NOAA Fisheries releases its Final Recovery Plan for California Coastal Salmon and Steelhead

Last week, NOAA Fisheries released its final plan to recover California coastal salmon and steelhead. Last week, NOAA Fisheries released its final version of a recovery plan set to recover California's Coastal Chinook Salmon ESU and the Northern California Steelhead DPS. In January 2016, Native...

Low Flows & Wild Steelhead

River Steward Doug DeRoy walks us through his recent work to protect threatened wild steelhead during low flows on California's Mendocino and Sonoma Coast. Working with local stakeholders,...