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Category Archives: Oregon Conservation News
Oregon Trout Unlimited and the Klamath Restoration Project
Last month, Todd Mullen, vice president of Trout Unlimited Chapter 678 sat in on a call with the TU folks who are working on the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement and sent out the following summary: You may have heard on … Continue reading
Protecting the McKenzie River from death by 1,000 cuts
Joe Moll, Executive Director of McKenzie River Trust is working hard to prevent us from loving our homewaters to death. Find out more about the threats to the McKenzie River watershed and what our local land trust is doing about … Continue reading
United States, Canada Agree to Reduction in Canadian Chinook Harvest
The United States will compensate Canada to the tune of thirty million dollars and the Canadians will reduce chinook harvest off the west coast of Vancouver Island by thirty percent. The change came about as a result of the Pacific … Continue reading
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Oregon river access rights battle brewing — get ready
Oregon river access law is going to the state legislature in 2009 — and if big landowner lobbyists have their way you can bet Oregonians are going to lose ground on public fishing access. According to Enviro-Lobbyist David Moskowitz, Oregon’s … Continue reading
Breaking News: Governor Kulongoski calls WOPR “incomplete.”
Recently, we reported that the Western Oregon Plan Revision was on the Governor’s desk for review and asked our readers to speak out against the plan. The Governor released his findings today asking the BLM not implement the WOPR. View … Continue reading
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Oregon Fly Fishing Blog joins Trout Unlimited and other conservation groups in opposition to the WOPR
Wading into northwest forest policy is kind of like skinny dipping with piranha only more dangerous and probably dumber. Nonetheless, as anglers who care deeply about the health of our salmon and steelhead runs and the rivers that nurture them … Continue reading
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McKenzie River restoration continues at Green Island
Sunday morning a crew of Trout Unlimited Chapter 678 volunteers teamed up with McKenzie River trust to work on the Green Island Project. We planted 250 trees — cottonwoods, big leaf maple and alder — along an historic side channel … Continue reading
EWEB, Conservation Groups Announce Planned Fish Ladder
Eugene, Oregon Yesterday, the Eugene Water and Electric Board announced an agreement reached after months of arduous settlement negotiations between EWEB, conservation groups, environmental groups, Indian tribes and state agencies regarding the final license application for EWEB’s Carmen-Smith Hydroelectric Project. … Continue reading
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Trout Unlimited ramping up support in Deschutes area
Trout Unlimited hasn’t had much influence in central Oregon. The organization has tried to start chapters in the area in recent years with limited success. But the Deschutes system is such an important watershed, TU isn’t going to give up … Continue reading
Willamette Spring Chinook Recovery Gains Momentum
Upper Willamette Spring Chinook were listed as a threatened species in 1999. Finally, in 2008 the United States Army Corps of Engineers has come up with a proposal to mitigate harm caused by the operation dams in the Willamette basin … Continue reading
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McKenzie River Two-Fly tournament participants have a blast, fund salmon habitat improvement
On Friday, October 3rd, the first annual McKenzie River Two-Fly tournament officially kicked off at the welcome reception at the Oregon Electric Station with guides, participants, and Trout Unlimited members enjoying appetizers, beer and wine. This inaugural event raised $2500 … Continue reading
Q&A with Jim Van Loan, Steamboat Inn North Umpqua River
Jim Van Loan, proprietor of the Steamboat Inn on the North Umpqua likes his steelhead wild and wary, not brainless bruisers dispensed from an ODFW fillet factory. Van Loan has been arguing at ODFW hearings, championing habitat over hatcheries and … Continue reading
McKenzie River Trust 5th Annual Green Island Tree Planting
The Fifth Annual Green Island Tree Planting is set for Saturday, October 25 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 10,000 Trees, 300 Volunteers, 1 Day! This project is part of a larger effort to restore Green Island from historic agricultural … Continue reading
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Letter of support for the proposed bait ban on the McKenzie River
Anglers will have a final opportunity to comment on the proposed 2009-2012 angling regulations at the next meeting of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission on Friday, Sept. 19, 2008 in Forest Grove. At that meeting, the Commission will formally … Continue reading
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Recommended reading: Half-pounders exploding on the Rogue River
Lots of fly fishing links this morning: Buster clubs Chinook Buster Wants to Fish is clubbing the first Chinook of the fall season somewhere on the Pacific NW Coast. TU Bull Trout Rendezvous VIII The Oregon State Council of TU … Continue reading