TU’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. This work was accomplished in partnership with the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and in collaboration with the Okanogan Public Utility District (PUD). “The completion of the Feasibility…
Without urgent intervention, salmon will disappear from the landscape. After decades of litigation, delay and dwindling salmon runs, the federal court has once again stepped in. And this time, the urgency could not be clearer.
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…
The Biden Administration today took a step forward on meeting the nation’s obligations to upper Columbia River tribes but fell short of producing a comprehensive plan for the entire Columbia basin including the Snake River.
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.
John McMillan returns with a guest column about the ongoing recovery of the Elwha River
by Greg Fitz | June 21, 2023 | Conservation
TU volunteers remove invasive weeds at a restoration site in Washington’s Chehalis River Basin
