The WaterSMART program provides funding to irrigation infrastructure projects and other water-delivery, water conservation or watershed health projects that proactively mitigate conflicts over water scarcity, help ranchers and farmers and make our public lands and waters better able to withstand the impacts of extreme weather events and natural disasters.
by Nick Halle | February 24, 2026 | River Champions
Generally speaking, hitchhiking in remote, mountainous areas is probably not a good idea. Simply put, there are a lot more bad possibilities than good ones. It’s certainly not a situation where one might expect to find a job that would change the direction of their life. But in 2019, somewhere between Wyoming’s Wind River Range and Teton Valley, Idaho, in the passenger seat of…
CFS is a team of experts conducting watershed assessments, assessing fish populations’ productivity, limiting factors, and habitats, and prioritizing and designing fish-focused restoration projects. We are a 100% employee-owned company with more than 80 fisheries biologists, ecologists, geneticists, biometricians, engineers, fluvial geomorphologists, and biotechnicians at six locations throughout the Pacific Northwest and California. For more…
Infrastructure funding for water quality and reclamation projects will also benefit trout and salmon Contact: Sara Porterfield, Western Water Policy Advisor, Trout Unlimited, sara.porterfield@tu.org Drew YoungeDyke, National Communications Director, Trout Unlimited, drew.youngedyke@tu.org ARLINGTON, Va.—The Department of the Interior this week announced over $51 million in watershed and river restoration projects through the Bureau…
At Silver Creek Outfitters, fly fishing is our way of life. We offer a curated selection of the flies and tackle and look forward to helping you discover what the area has to offer. We have been guided fly fishermen in the Sun Valley area since the early 1960’s. The business was started by Bobby…
We are professional engineers and scientists working to conserve, protect, and restore natural waterways for improved fish and wildlife habitat. Our team has vast experience in fish habitat, hydraulic engineering and modeling, stream processes and geomorphology, floodplain design, fish ladders and fishways, riparian ecology, fisheries engineering, and managing construction projects.
For those of us born of water, sky, forest and meadow, for whom nature and the natural experience is not only a desired condition, but a necessary one, good writing about this world fuels our souls.