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Skagit Dams: Seattle City Light’s new federal hydropower license moves forward

After seven years of negotiations, Trout Unlimited is joining co-signers to support an agreement that improves hydropower operations and makes extensive restoration investments in the revered Puget...

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Legislative Recap: Oregon’s 2026 Session

Another busy legislative season that was highlighted by the adoption of a new funding stream for species conservation projects, including for wild steelhead Last month, the Oregon legislature...

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Science Friday: Lessons from the Hood Canal Steelhead Supplementation Project

An experimental conservation hatchery program provides a modest benefit to steelhead populations, but cannot build sustainable recovery on its own Hatcheries are often utilized as conservation tools...

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Legislative Update: Oregon’s 2026 Session

On February 2nd, the Oregon legislature commenced a “short session” that will continue into early March. As always, Trout Unlimited is closely tracking and engaging on the policy and budget issues...

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2026 Washington Legislature Update

This session Trout Unlimited is working to ban a fish-killing tire chemical and support Puget Sound Steelhead, Lower Snake Dam replacement studies and WDFW management Washington’s 2026 State...

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Take Action for a free-flowing Chehalis River

An updated proposal to dam the Upper Chehalis would be devastating to the basin’s wild steelhead and spring Chinook, and cost taxpayers vastly more money Since its conception, a broad coalition of...

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Wild Steelhead Initiative: Winter 2025

Across much of steelhead country, winter’s arrival has been especially intense this year. Atmospheric rivers have pounded the region, causing dramatic flooding and immense damage to communities and...

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Resident Native Trout Harvest Management Policy Adopted in Washington State

The new policy has good intentions, but a lack of enforceable rules makes potential benefits to wild steelhead and native trout populations uncertain Following a petition filed in 2023 to protect the...

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Science Friday: Can Steelhead Take the Heat?

Steelhead in a warming world: insights into thermal tolerance from California steelhead This is a guest post by Paige Gardner, an avid angler from Washington state who is currently a PhD student at UC...

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Skagit and Puget Sound Steelhead Deserve Permanent Funding

Stand up for an iconic fishery and forward-looking management UPDATE: On January 13, our Three Rivers Trout Unlimited Chapter is hosting a ‘Letters and Lagers’ night at the Holy Mountain Brewery in...

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A barrier on Jenny Creek is gone

Steelhead and salmon gain access to more habitat on a key Klamath River tributary A little over a year ago, the four dams blocking the Klamath River came down after multi-decade advocacy efforts by...

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Protecting Roadless Areas Protects Wild Steelhead

Rescinding the Roadless Rule would remove safeguards on cold, clean water and healthy, intact forests When a steelhead angler is floating their home river or wading deep to reach the heart of their...

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The path forward for the Eel River’s steelhead and communities

As dam removal moves ahead, an innovative collaborative plan to share the basin’s water and restore its iconic salmon and steelhead runs is finalized On California’s mighty Eel River, Pacific Gas...

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Watch Meateater’s Cal investigate the Snake River dams

In the latest MeatEater video, Ryan “Cal” Callaghan heads to the Snake River to investigate the four lower dams and what they mean to salmon, steelhead and local communities. Anglers, farmers, blue...

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Legislative Summary: Oregon’s 2025 Legislative Session

The Oregon Legislature wrapped up its 2025 legislative session on June 27th. Trout Unlimited is pleased to report that the Legislature passed some important policy and budget measures for fish and...

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Wild Steelhead Initiative: Summer 2025

We live in a day and age when it seems very few people stay at a job more than a few years.  I’ve had the great privilege of leading Trout Unlimited’s conservation efforts in the western U.S. for 15...

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Why the Comparative Survival Study Matters for Columbia Basin Salmon and...

The most important, long-term data on fish survival through the Basin’s dams In the ongoing fight to recover wild steelhead and salmon in the Columbia River Basin, the Comparative Survival Study (CSS)...

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Our 2025 Washington State Legislative Wrap-up

Wins and losses for fish and anglers in a tough budget April 28 was Sine Die, the ceremonial end of the 2025 Washington State Legislative session and passage of the State’s 2025-27 budgets. While...

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Cold Water Connection Campaign

TU and our partners are working together to reconnect blocked habitat on Olympic Peninsula watersheds Long before heavy equipment began to arrive at project sites, the Cold Water Connection Campaign...

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A New Video Celebrates Trout Unlimited’s White Salmon Spawning Surveys

On Washington’s White Salmon River, TU volunteers are partnering with WDFW to collect steelhead and salmon spawning data above the former site of Condit Dam When the Condit Dam was breached on...

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