After more than 100 years of abuse, California’s wild salmon and steelhead are on the ropes. And like many populations up and down the West Coast, these fish are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

To reverse the trend, the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently proposed a plan to recover northern and central coast steelhead and coastal chinook along eight million acres of the California coast. NOAA scientists will target specific needs of the fish throughout their lifecycle, from fry to returning spawners, assuring genetic diversity and geographic distribution for long-term species survival. In-stream restoration projects would include improving riparian habitat and restoring floodplains and stream channels. Enhanced stream flows and improved fish passage are critical actions too, when considering the drought conditions in the state.

The proposed plan is currently available for public comment. NOAA encourages the public and all interested parties to review it and submit comments by December 4, 2015. In addition, NOAA is hosting a series of public workshops this month and next.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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