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Elwha River Restoration Volunteer Opportunity
Want to be even more involved in the Elwha Restoration? Now is your chance. There are four days of volunteer opportunities to help in the propagation of plants used to revegetate the newly exposed reservoirs.
Recommended Reading: Six books about wild steelhead management in Pacific Northwest
We recommend the following six books to help you get started in understanding the plight of wild steelhead and salmon in the Pacific Northwest and the complicated nature of their management.
Columbia River Salmon and Steelhead Endorsement Fees: Where does the money go?
Anglers are required to pay an additional $8.75 for an endorsement on their WDFW fishing license fee to fish for salmon or steelhead on the Columbia River and its tributaries in Washington state. How are these extra angling fees being utilized for the benefit of wild steelhead recovery?
Legal Action Targeted to Stop Elwha River Hatchery
Wild-fish advocates assert that new hatchery is counter-productive to steelhead recovery.
Update on the Historical Columbia River Steelhead/Salmon Abundance Project
Bill McMillan was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Wild Steelhead Coalition (WSC) in early 2010 to continue research and develop an accurate historical baseline of what steelhead/salmon numbers and distribution were in the Columbia Basin prior to Euro-American contact. Funds for the WSC grant were secured from Patagonia’s World Trout Grant program. A previous update regarding this project was featured in the November 2010 issue of The Adipose.
WSC Efforts Secure Important Protection for Early Winter Steelhead Runs on the Olympic Peninsula
During the WDFW Major Regulation Cycle of 2009, the WSC proposed a harvest closure of wild steelhead during the early winter months (December, January and half of February) that allowed fishing to continue by catch and release. That proposal was adopted by the WDFW Commission and became a formal regulation last year. The following is a rewrite of the justification the WSC provided WDFW to justify this new regulation.
