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Reconnecting Oregon’s Salmon SuperHwy
The Salmon SuperHwy team had a busy summer on Oregon’s North Coast in 2025. The partnership completed five culvert replacements and one tide gate replacement, bringing their habitat reconnection total to 137 stream miles. SSH Director Liz Ransom standing next to the new tide gate at Esther Creek before it was installed The completed projects…
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A modern (& fishy) meet-cute
When Dalton Romanowski created his online dating profile, his buddies told him he had too many fish photos. It’s a common joke among young adults — especially in a mountain town like Bend, Ore., — that you’ll find hundreds of profiles of men showing off their best catch. Romanowski’s friends said he wouldn’t get a…
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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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TU’s Stream Restoration: Utilizing Wood from Hazardous Fuels Reduction Treatments for Healthier Watersheds
Trout Unlimited (TU) is leading innovative stream restoration projects across the fire-prone Western U.S. Our skilled managers often use process-based techniques and other nature-based solutions to help rivers and streams function more naturally. But did you know that in Wyoming, Oregon and elsewhere, TU also plays a role in active forest management by using wood…
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Improving tide gates on the Salmon SuperHwy
On Oregon’s North Coast rivers, NOAA restoration investments are helping reconnect critical habitat for salmon and farmers. When many of us picture barriers to fish migration, we often think of dams and perched culverts preventing salmon, steelhead and other native species from reaching spawning and rearing habitat, off-channel refuges from high flows or sources of…
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Public lands: key to America’s sporting legacy
There is no opportunity for productive fishing or hunting if there are no productive lands and waters in which to sling a line, spot and stalk or swing an over-under. Bottom line. This basic fact has been a part of the American sporting consciousness since Theordore Roosevelt inscribed it, if not before. It’s a cornerstone…
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Persistence on the Owyhee
When I first moved to central Oregon over three years ago, I knew I was in for a treat when it came to local trout fisheries. Early on in my time in Bend, I spent a weekend driving around central Oregon from the Lower Deschutes to the Fall to the Crooked Rivers, becoming acquainted with…
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