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Say NO to a Proposed Coal Mine in the Telkwa River!

ACT NOW. COMMENTS DUE BY SUNDAY, JULY 3.Australian mining company, Allegiance, is proposing a 1000 hectare (2471 acres) metallurgical coal mine in the Telkwa River Basin in British Columbia. The...

| Posted: Jun 28, 2022

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Giving the Molalla River a Chance

Guest Post by Luke Whitman and Ben Walczak of Oregon Department of Fish and WildlifeHistoric land use practices have taken their toll on native fish in the Molalla River, especially salmon and...

| Posted: Jun 1, 2022

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Court Hits Pause on Termination of Harmful Hatchery Program

PORTLAND, Ore – On May 18, 2022, a Marion County Circuit Court judge granted a preliminary injunction that pauses the elimination of the Rock Creek Hatchery summer steelhead program pending the...

| Posted: May 31, 2022

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Following the Steelhead - Through Northern California

I spent the summer and fall of 2020 and 2021 meandering across the rivers and creek of Northern California, looking for juvenile O. mykiss. I swam, walked, minked (slithering over rocks and jumping...

| Posted: May 26, 2022

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Reintroducing Spring Run Chinook

Upper Klamath River Spring Chinook were historically an abundant species of Salmon harvested by locals and tribes and provided a significant benefit to the entire Klamath River ecosystem. In the...

| Posted: May 26, 2022

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First Annual Umpqua Bass Bash

Join us Saturday, July 16th, as Native Fish Society hosts our first annual Umpqua Bass Bash! This event, hosted on the mainstem Umpqua River, will help remove Smallmouth Bass from the river and...

| Posted: May 19, 2022

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Wild Abundance vs Hatchery Drain Pt 2: Return to Wild

Two of the most common questions we receive at Native Fish Society are “how exactly do hatchery fish harm wild fish?” and “are there any examples of wild fish doing well after a hatchery program...

| Posted: May 3, 2022

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Oregon Steps Up Protections for Imperiled North Umpqua Summer Steelhead

The North Umpqua Coalition Media Contact: Mark Sherwood, Executive Director 303-898-8988 mark@nativefishsociety.org David Moskowitz, Executive...

| Posted: Apr 25, 2022

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Wild Abundance vs Hatchery Drain Pt 1: Hatchery Effects

Two of the most common questions we receive at Native Fish Society are “how exactly do hatchery fish harm wild fish?” and “are there any examples of wild fish doing well after a hatchery program...

| Posted: Apr 16, 2022

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Celebrating 30 Years of the Salmonberry River Data Collection: Temperature

By Ian Fergusson Joyce Sherman already provided a history of the monitoring program in the Salmonberry. As part of that program, we started monitoring temperatures in 1993, and continued through...

| Posted: Apr 6, 2022

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