New Actions for Recovery of Endangered Winter-Run Chinook Salmon
For the first time since the construction of the Shasta Dam in the 1940s, endangered winter-run Chinook salmon have returned to the McCloud River upstream of Shasta Reservoir by way of egg release from a cohort of partners─ the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, the California...
Battling drought on trout waters
How we’re making key Western streams more hospitable for trout and people in the hotter, drier present.
Addressing public safety at low head dams
American Whitewater’s database of whitewater accidents and fatalities, maintained since 1972, documents that 10% of river fatalities nationwide are a result of individuals getting caught in a low head dam hydraulic. These dams are generally defined as a manmade...
The next half-century of hydro
How hydropower relicensing clears a path for migratory trout and salmon