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Protected: Salmon and Farms: Restoring Wallowa Lake’s Lost Sockeye Salmon
In Northeast Oregon, tribes, irrigators, and state agencies are working together to repair the Wallowa Lake Dam and add fish passage, an effort that will protect regional water supplies and restore a historic salmon population that’s been missing for over a century. Since time immemorial, the sockeye salmon that returned to Northeast Oregon’s Wallowa Lake were critical to the culture, traditions, and subsistence of the Nez Perce Tribe and Confederated Tribes…
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Protected: A Ridgetop-to-Ridgetop Approach to Aquatic Restoration and Active Forest Management
The Sheep Creek Stewardship Project In Northeast Oregon, Trout Unlimited, the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and other partners are leading an innovative, interdisciplinary effort to restore fish and wildlife habitat, enhance recreation opportunities, support local economies and improve wildfire resilience. The Sheep Creek Stewardship Project Project overview Connecting the valley and uplands Sheep Creek's…
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Legacy Contracting: Building bridges for fish and communities on the Salmon SuperHwy
On Oregon’s beautiful North Coast rivers, the Salmon SuperHwy is working hard to reconnect over 180 miles of high-priority, historic salmon, steelhead, lamprey and cutthroat trout habitat in the Tillamook, Nestucca and Sand Lake watersheds. As of January 2026, the partnership has already accomplished 75 percent of their goal. Over the course of the last decade, the partnership has restored access to 137 miles…
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Five years of healthier fish and forests in Idaho’s Panhandle
In Northern Idaho, TU and the Forest Service are working together to restore native trout habitat, support local jobs, and improve wildfire resiliency In North Idaho, TU’s Panhandle Chapter has been active for several decades, but Trout Unlimited didn’t have full time staff in the region until Erin Plue was hired as a project manager late in 2020. Plue led TU’s partnership with the Idaho Panhandle National Forest (IPNF) until…
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A milestone for the Enloe Dam and Similkameen River
Trout Unlimited’s new study shows dam removal is feasible and affordable After more than three years of engineering work, legal analysis and other planning, Trout Unlimited has completed an extensive study considering the feasibility of removing the Enloe Dam from the Similkameen River in north central Washington. “The completion of the Feasibility Study is an…
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Visual storytelling at its finest
For much of the last six years, Shane Anderson and his team at Swiftwater Films spent thousands of hours meticulously documenting the epic story of the long campaign to reconnect the Klamath River. They’ve gathered hours of historical footage, filmed key moments and celebrations and conducted hundreds of interviews with tribal leaders, conservationists, anglers, scientists…
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Championing big projects in Oregon
When asked if Oregon’s Clackamas River is his home water, Trout Unlimited’s Terry Turner chuckles and answers, “Well, it is certainly one of them.” Oregon is blessed with a wide variety of fishing opportunities, from rivers to lakes to saltwater. Salmon, steelhead, sturgeon, halibut and some solid trout fishing are all options, depending on the…
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Greg Fitz
Fitz is TU's Pacific Communications Director and is based in Olympia, Washington.