Rogue River updates

River Steward Program Newsletter Winter 2018

We are starting to see rains show up earlier in southern Oregon than I can remember in the past couple of years, and I hope that this is the beginning to a long wet winter here in the Northwest. ...

New ODFW assessment shows Conservation Plan is helping Rogue spring Chinook

In 2007, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission adopted a Rogue Spring Chinook Conservation Plan (Conservation Plan) to help improve conditions for the struggling wild salmon that had seriously...

Building a coalition for a sustainable wild steelhead fishery in southwest Oregon

Across their native range, there are twelve rivers in the lower 48 states and Canada where sport anglers can still legally harvest wild steelhead. All twelve of these rivers are in Oregon, and ten...

Abundant wild fall Chinook salmon in the Rogue show us what’s possible

There is much to celebrate about this year’s forecast for close to a half million wild fall Chinook salmon returning to the Rogue River in Southern Oregon. At a time when we hear more about the...

Fishing, Conservation Groups Sue to Protect Coho Salmon From Oregon State Forest Logging

For Immediate Release, June 13, 2018 Contacts: Noah Greenwald, Center for Biological Diversity, (503) 484-7495, ngreenwald@biologicaldiversity.org Glen Spain, PCFFA and IFR, (541) 689-2000,...

Landslides, Good and Bad

Let's stop clearcut logging on steep slopes in state and private Oregon forests Since the 1994 adoption of the Northwest Forest Plan, which regulates logging on federal land in Oregon, commercial...

New Science: Fall Chinook don't turn into Spring Chinook.

Written by Native Fish Society member Renee Fitts Thompson et al., in their new paper,“Anthropogenic habitat alteration leads to rapid loss of adaptive variation and restoration potential in wild...

GREB1L

The unraveling of native fish is more apparent with spring Chinook and summer steelhead than any other fish swimming in the Northwest. Anglers understand that these fish are not the same as their...

Congressman Uses Falsehoods to Urge Reopening Kalmiopsis and Wild Rivers Coast for Strip Mining

For immediate release Contacts: Dave Lacey, Hunter Creek River Steward & Oregon South Coast Tours, 541-373-0487, dave@southcoasttours.net Susan Jane Brown, Western Environmental Law Center,...

Governor Brown Signs Suction Dredge Mining Reform Bill to Protect Oregon Rivers

Today, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed the Suction Dredge Reform Bill (SB 3) legislation which establishes a permanent framework to manage in-stream motorized mining across Oregon. The bill...

River Steward Southern Regional Gathering Recap

Southern Regional Gathering June 2 - 4, 2017 This past week, we joined for our first Southern Regional Gathering near the Klamath River in Northern California. As our community of wild fish...

Suction Dredge Mining Reform passes Oregon House of Representatives

May 31, 2017 Salem, OR – The Oregon House passed legislation today in a bipartisan vote to protect sensitive salmon and lamprey habitat from suction dredge mining. The Suction Dredge Reform bill...

Together Against the Mines

Wild Rivers Campaign Just seven miles upstream from River Steward Dave Lacey’s home in southern Oregon a foreign owned mining company was quietly working to develop a nickel strip mine on public...

Suction Dredge Mining Reform in Oregon moves ahead

Last month the Oregon State Senate passed the Suction Dredge Reform Bill (SB 3-A Engrossed) with a vote of 21-9 to send it over to the Oregon House of Representatives, a move that would establish...

Strong Runs Winter 2017

Strong Runs ~ Winter 2017 ~ Issue 11.1 If you're a member of the Native Fish Society keep your eyes peeled -- our latest Strong Runs newsletter should be showing up in your mailbox this week! This...

Oregon State Legislature hears testimony on Suction Dredge Mining Reform (SB3)

February 3, 2017 To: Oregon Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee Re: Native Fish Society Testimony on Oregon State Legislature 2017 Session SB3 Greetings Chair Dembrow, Vice-Chair...

A Photo Finish for the Wild Rivers Campaign

Brookings, Ore. | As the new year begins we’re teeming with joy for native fish and wild rivers! It was a photo finish, but with just 48 hours left in 2016, the Assistant Secretary for Lands and...

River Stewards to NOAA: Protect wild fish, not artificial production.

On December 20th, 2016 78 River Stewards from throughout the Northwest submitted the following letter to NOAA-National Marine... Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposal to include hatchery programs as part of Pacific salmon and steelhead species listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). As a diverse...