Stop the proposed hatchery program on the Klickitat

The Klickitat River in southern Washington is among the crowned jewels of the Pacific Northwest. Long revered for its large native steelhead and spring Chinook, the river has some of the most intact habitat for fish and wildlife in the Middle Columbia Region.  It's the home of this recent Slab of the Month.

This is where you come in. Please take 2 minutes to read over the comments here, personalize the letter and send your message to BPA.


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Join TU for outdoor gear raffles, food, drinks, and a screening of the award-winning documentary, Red Gold, as you learn more from Alaskan fishermen about the fight to Save Bristol Bay.

Here's an opportunity to share your voice on the Save Bristol Bay Roadshow.  Register now for your respective closest city:

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Fish Increased 460% in Nature Park

“The study’s results are surprising in several ways. A biomass increase of 463 percent in a reserve as large as Cabo Pulmo represents tons of new fish produced every year. No other marine reserve in the world has shown such a fish recovery,” said Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, lead author of the study.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/fish-increased-460-in-nature-park.html#ixzz1VEa1b87q

Last Chance for Romance

Today is the last day that the WDFW is accepting comments regarding the Snider Creek Hatchery on Sol Duc River. If you have not submitted a comment there is still time and it only takes 2 minutes.

After decades of failed hatchery management policies you have a chance to win one for wild steelhead by advocating the WDFW to close the Snider Creek Hatchery and designate the Sol Duc a wild steelhead refuge.

The Sol Duc is a river steeped in heritage as, this excerpt from Doug Rose's Fly Fishing Guide to the Olympic Penninsula will attest.

“With its strong run of wild fish and rich legacy of Glasso Spey flies, there may very well be no place in North America where the fish, the flies, the river conditions, and a river’s fly–fishing heritage come together in such a compelling way as on the Sol Duc in spring. The Quillayute System produces more wild winter steelhead than any other river in the Pacific Northwest, including many in excess of 20 pounds and few over 30, and the Sol Duc is by far the most productive component of the system.

All anglers, including the ones that still think hatcheries are an effective management tool, should be advocating to give one up for wild fish.

Submit your comment TODAY via the Native Fish Society.

If a picture is worth a 1000 words

Wild steelhead could really use your help.

The Wild Steelhead Coalition developed this graphic from information on the NOAA website with the goal to communicate the endangered status of wild steelhead in the Pacific NW and California simply on one page.

Click on the graphic to see it full size.

We’ve seen enough, heard enough, and now we’re taking action

Partagonia CEO Casey Sheahan, and New Belgium Brewery CEO Kim Jordan, have penned an enviro essay about their campaign to save the Colorado River.

The Save the Colorado campaign will donate funding totaling $500,000 through a granting cycle twice a year for three years – 2010, 2011, 2012 – that will focus on three programmatic areas: 1) raising public awareness about the threats to the river, 2) promoting water conservation in cities that use Colorado River water, and 3) addressing the threats, and potential mitigations, of past and future dams, diversions and reservoirs.

The philanthropic campaign includes business and foundation partners from the top of the Colorado River basin all the way to the bottom. Colorado partners include New Belgium Brewing, Aspen Snowmass Environment Foundation, Kenney Brothers Foundation and National Geographic Maps. California partners include OARS, Patagonia and Environment Now.

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Uranium contamination is just one of the myriad of threats facing the Colorado.

This year, Patagonia’s environmental campaign, Our Common Waters, spotlights the need to balance human water consumption with that of animals and plants.