As an environmental policy consultant for CSPA, I spend a portion of my time visiting fly fishing clubs to recruit club memberships. I’ve found that participating in club casting clinics is a great way to meet club administrators and members while working on my cast! Chatting with fellow anglers about their favorite rivers, and the…

Since dam construction in the early 1900s, Central Valley Chinook salmon have been cut off from their historical spawning and rearing habitat in the upper Feather River watershed. Spring-run Chinook salmon in particular historically utilized the upper river watersheds like the North Fork Feather River. In wake of population declines, especially of spring-run salmon, the…

During the 2024-2025 fall run, 35,450 adult Chinook salmon returned to the Lower Mokelumne River to spawn. This broke the previous 2023-24 season’s record of 28,698. The combination of successful and innovative hatchery operations, habitat enhancement, and the management of cold-water flows from Camanche and Pardee reservoirs account for the consecutive record-breaking returns. East Bay…

The 2024/25 winter spawning run of Central California Coast coho salmon (CCC) in the lower Russian River watershed brought fruition to ongoing local salmon recovery efforts. The data collected this last winter reveals an impressive return of adult coho salmon in the lower Russian River watershed and reinforces the importance of the Russian River Coho…

On January 31, PG&E released its draft license surrender application and decommissioning plan for the Potter Valley Hydroelectric Project in Mendocino and Lake counties. In the draft plan, PG&E proposes to remove Cape Horn Dam and the Scott Dam in Lake and Mendocino counties. Both dams are located on the Eel River.  The dams block…