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Thank the WDFW for their important management decision regarding the Snider Creek hatchery
Send a thank you message to Washington Division of Fish and Wildlife’s Director Phil Anderson, Jim Scott, and Ron Warren for listening to your voice and using the best available science to make the tough management decision to discontinue the Snider Creek Steelhead Suppplementation Program on the Sol Duc River….
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Pass Creek and North Umpqua River Basin, Oregon (1968)
Provides a penetrating account of a once-rich steelhead trout stream threatened by careless logging practices. Focusing on Oregon’s North Umpqua River Basin, the film portrays the impact of clearcut logging on the small tributary streams where most of the river’s steelhead are spawned and reared. The subtle interdependence of land and water and the disruption of the aquatic environment caused by stream-clogging debris and warming water are dramatically presented. Hal Riney and Dick Snider, advertising executives and fishermen, produced the film and donated it to Oregon State University. It was widely distributed and viewed in Oregon and throughout the United States through the 1970s and was influential in changing logging practices in the Northwest.
Suit Filed To Block Elwha Hatchery Programs
Citing warnings from agency and independent scientists, four conservation groups filed suit today against several federal agencies and officials of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe (in their official capacities) for violating the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and ignoring the best available science and threatening the recovery of killer whales, Chinook salmon, and native steelhead by funding and operating fish hatchery programs in the Elwha River.
Dylan Tomine speech at Elwha River Science Symposium
Fisherman, and Patagonia ambassador, Dylan Tomine shares his concerns about restocking the Elwha River with non-native, hatchery-raised fish at the Elwha River Science Symposium. The Symposium was held in conjunction with the historic Elwha River dam removal project.
Fundraiser: Spokane, WA Premier of Connect, February 22, 2012
If you’re anywhere near Spokane, Washington on February 22, come watch a killer flick, win some prizes, and help save wild steelhead.
Thank the WDFW for their important management decision regarding the Snider Creek hatchery
Send a thank you message to Washington Division of Fish and Wildlife’s Director Phil Anderson, Jim Scott, and Ron Warren for listening to your voice and using the best available science to make the tough management decision to discontinue the Snider Creek Steelhead Suppplementation Program on the Sol Duc River….
A future for wild steelhead: Establishing the First Wild Steelhead Management Zone on the Sol Duc River
Recently the WDFW made a hard social and biological decision to move the Snider Creek hatchery to the Bogachiel River, freeing up the Sol Duc River for classification as a Wild Steelhead Management Area (WSMZ). This was the result of many organizations and hundreds of interested steelheaders sending in comments to WDFW related to hatchery impacts. The Wild Steelhead Coalition, along with the Native Fish Society, led this charge, providing two white papers and comments on the science of hatchery impacts and the need for a quality Wild Steelhead Management Zone (WDMZ) on the Washington Coast.
