Job Opening: California Water Policy Director

TU seeks an experienced, passionate leader for its water policy program. The California Water Policy Director will have outstanding analytic and communication skills, a background in water rights, stream flow protection, and/or hydropower reform, and a strong record of accomplishment.
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TU Comments on Klamath Dam Removal EIS/EIR

On September 15, 2011, the U.S. Department of the Interior (Interior) and the California Department of Fish Game (CDFG) (collectively, the Agencies), with input from the State of Oregon, jointly released the Klamath Facilities Removal Impact Statement / Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR), analyzing the potential impacts to the environment from removing four PacifiCorp Dams located on the Klamath River in California and Oregon. In response to this document, Trout Unlimited offers the following comments.
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Restoring Floodplains to Enhance Salmon Habitat

By Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 26, 2011

New Willow Creek Bridge Good News for Coho and Steelhead

JENNER — The clearing of the waterway under Willow Creek Road and construction of the new bridge that spans it means coho and steelhead could return to this area of Sonoma Coast State Park near Jenner, which was once teeming with salmon.
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Field & Stream Best Wild Places: Part Two, Meiss Meadows

This past fall, TU staff members Dave Lass and Dave Stalling ventured into the Meiss Meadows and Caples Creek area to produce a three-part series for Field & Stream's "Last Wild Places" series. By following the link below, you can read part two. Please take time to comment and help generate interest in protecting these special, wild places!
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Field & Stream Best Wild Places: Part One, Meiss Meadows

This past fall, TU staff members Dave Lass and Dave Stalling ventured into the Meiss Meadows and Caples Creek area to produce a three-part series for Field & Stream's "Last Wild Places" series. By following the link below, you can read part one. Please take time to comment and help generate interest in protecting these special, wild places!
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An Angler’s Perspective: McCarthy Bill Threatens Fishing, Hunting Opportunities

This OpEd, by TU's California Field Director Sam Davidson, was published in the Vacaville Reporter, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011 -- As a life-long outdoorsman, I’ve been following with great concern a bill authored by Rep. Kevin McCarthy that would reduce protections for some of our best public lands hunting and fishing grounds.  This bill would affect 4.2 million acres of lands and waters in California presently managed as “roadless areas.”
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New Willow Creek Bridge Helps Coho Migration, Prevents Road Flooding

(Jenner, CA) -- On Friday, December 16 at 11:30 a.m., Ruth Coleman, the director of California State Parks, Charlton H. Bonham, the director of California Department of Fish and Game, along with officials from the NOAA Restoration Center and other organizations, will celebrate the construction of the Willow Creek 2nd Bridge (details below). The new bridge will open the watershed of Willow Creek to migrating coho salmon and steelhead, and eliminate the annual flooding that created problems for residents, State Parks and the popular Pomo Canyon Campground.
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Coho Release Highlights 10-year Willow Creek Restoration

"Tuesday's release of 11,000 Coho into Willow Creek marked a new phase in what has been a major and time-consuming effort to restore the endangered fish to the waterway, which is the largest of the tributaries flowing into the Jenner estuary."
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Blog supporting DoD assistance for San Clemente Dam Project

John Woodley, former Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, makes an unexpected pitch for Department of Defense (DoD) assistance for the San Clemente Dam Removal project -- despite strong interest from the California National Guard to do training in conjunction with the project.
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Restoring Paiute Cutthroats: Let's "Get it Done!!"

On Nov. 7, the Wall Street Journal ran an article called, "Flys, and Their Lawyers, Keep Rare Trout From Going Home," (see link below) about efforts to restore Paiute cutthroats to their historical range on a portion of Silver King Creek in the Sierra Nevadas. Here is a response from former TU California State Council Chairman John Regan, who has been working on this project for more than 20 years:
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Truckee River Day: Restoration at Little Truckee River and Sagehen Fish House

From the Sierra Sun, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011: TRUCKEE, Calif. — The Little Truckee River between Boca and Stampede Reservoirs supports a wide diversity of aquatic life, including a healthy trout population. However, habitat along this river reach could be improved.
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Proposed Klamath Legislation Supports Rural Economies

Washington, DC –  A Klamath Economic Restoration Act introduced today in the US Senate by Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and in the House by California Congressman Mike Thompson deserves prompt Congressional action, said a growing group of bi-partisan supporters.
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Brian Johnson Named new TUCA Director

Sportsmen Applaud Reinstatement of Roadless Rule
Trout Unlimited welcomed the decision handed down from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals today reinstating the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The ruling protects millions of acres of public backcountry lands from coast to coast.
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A Thank You From the Grassroots
By now, it is widely known by fish conservation and general environmental groups that our TU CA Director, Chuck Bonham, has been appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown as the new Director of CA Dept. of Fish & game (DFG) as of Aug. 19, 2011.
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California Water Board Adopts New Frost Regulations
On September 20, the California State Water Resources Control Board adopted a new “reasonable use” regulation to reduce impacts on salmon and steelhead of water diversions for purposes of frost protection of crops in Mendocino and Sonoma Counties.
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