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Central Valley Region | California Trout

Why CalTrout? Hear James Whelan, CalTrout Project Manager's answer! For James: He fell in love with nature at an early age and wants these resources to be around for his kids, and their kids. CalTrout has a reputation for getting the job done, and he wants to be a small part of a large portion of history. In 2024-2025, we witnessed history on the Klamath River. Following the world's largest dam removal project, which reopened nearly 400 miles of salmon and steelhead habitat, CalTrout has been on

The results are in! Katie Smith, our Sierra Nevada Restoration Field Coordinator is back from a summer of restoring habitat for Golden Trout and brought us the inside scoop: That’s a wrap on the 2025 field season! Huge thank you to all of our Golden Trout Restoration & Monitoring crew members who showed up this season to pull off a ton of good work – together, we surveyed over 2,000 pools, riffles, and runs, collected data on channel morphology at 840 transects, monitored 112 treated headcuts, a