The mapping applications available on wildsteelheaders.org have just been updated and now include two new cutting-edge map viewers – a wild steelhead Conservation Atlas and a steelhead fishing trip planner. Both maps are presented in an interactive format, allowing users to select layers to show on the map, pan and zoom to an area of interest, click on layers …
DeFazio: Smith is a place worth preserving
In the first of three videos from the Oregon delegation, Rep. Peter DeFazio talks about why Oregon/California’s Smith River is such an important resource to protect. Get your comments in today to encourage the BLM and Forest Service to implement a 20 year mining withdrawal on the headwaters of the Smith.
Angler Science on the Olympic Peninsula
It is sometimes amazing how one small act of giving can multiply into many. Last year, I was looking for donations to encourage people to get involved with Trout Unlimited’s fledgling Wild Steelhead Initiative. The donation would be the prize – incentive – for TU chapters to get involved in the fight for wild steelhead. The first person I …
Another opportunity to protect the Smith
Please Take Action now to help Wild Steelheaders United preserve this amazing wild steelhead fishery from top to bottom. See “HOW TO COMMENT.” Comment period closes May 27, 2016. The jade-green waters of the legendary Smith River are hauntingly beautiful. But for the better part of a century this stream has haunted anglers primarily for another reason: it’s consistent runs …