Van Duzen 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. ...

Footsteps & Paddle Strokes

Imagining A Future for Van Duzen River Summer Steelhead When I moved to the Van Duzen River seven years ago, I knew very little of its fishes. I had spent many hours the previous winter studying a...

Native Fish Society joins the Eel River Forum

We are pleased to announce that on Wednesday, June 14th, Native Fish Society became charter members of the Eel River Forum, a group comprised of 23 public agencies, tribes, non-profit conservation...

River Steward Southern Regional Gathering Recap

Southern Regional Gathering June 2 - 4, 2017 This past week, we joined for our first Southern Regional Gathering near the Klamath River in Northern California. As our community of wild fish...

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...