Jeff Miller stands atop the fish barrier at the base of Niles Community Park as they rescue stranded steelhead in 2016.

Roughly 73 square miles of ancestral homelands once belonging to California’s Yurok Tribe have been returned to them. The land-back conservation project along the Klamath River, a partnership ...

The 47,097 acres of ancestral lands, located in the lower Klamath River watershed ... at scc.ca.gov. A map of the Blue Creek project area, which includes the Blue Creek Salmon Sanctuary and ...

(See map below.) Establishing Tribal ownership ... encompasses the entire lower half of the Blue Creek watershed, 25 miles of the eastern bank of the Klamath River and dozens of miles of smaller ...

The creek even warmed by more than 12°C (22°F). Salmon populations dropped as a result. Richard Nelson, who heads the Yurok’s watershed restoration and roads department, told Mongabay an ...

the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board’s restoration grants manager. Williams said projects like the one planned at Grindy Creek play an important role in supporting coho salmon populations ...

Coho salmon, here in full vivid spawning ... the Marblemount Fish Hatchery will place no Chambers Creek steelhead into the Skagit watershed for 12 years, allowing wild runs a chance to recover ...

Almost everywhere in California, salmon are on the decline ... “The fact that you have Putah Creek-origin fish is a big deal,” said senior author Andrew Rypel, director of the UC Davis Center for ...

A historical map from the early 1850s shows islands ... the water health rating in one big chunk of Salmon Creek’s watershed improved from “fair” in 2010 to “good” in 2023, according ...

Almost everywhere in California, salmon are ... you have Putah Creek-origin fish is a big deal,” said senior author Andrew Rypel, director of the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences at ...

stakeholders and more who had a mission of restoring Putah Creek. "This was the community coming together around a watershed and it culminating with the return of salmon and now a natal salmon run ...