The Current Magazine Fall 2015 | Page 15

UC Santa Barbara

Southern California Steelhead Center

Dr. Thomas Dudley and Dr. Scott Cooper, of the Southern California Steelhead Center, counsel CalTrout on Southern steelhead restoration and recovery opportunities along the southern coast.

UCSB Partners with CalTrout on the following projects:

• Harvey Diversion Fish Passage

Restoration Project

• 12th Street Infiltration Gallery

In addition, the UCSB MSI Riparian Invasion Research Laboratory is a member of the Santa Clara River Steelhead Coalition.

Humboldt State University

CalTrout works with Dr. William Trush of the Institute for River Ecosystem to protect and restore instream flows and fish passage for threatened salmon and steelhead in the North Coast Region.

The organization also collaborates with the HSU Department of Fisheries Biology and the Cooperative Fish Research Unit on fish habitat studies, salmon and steelhead population monitoring, and native cutthroat trout status and distribution.

CalTrout projects with HSU River

Institute involvement:

• Potter Valley Project and FERC

Relicensing

• South Fork Eel Sproul Creek Flow Study

• Coho Coalition