Photo: Dr. Robert Lusardi
"CalTrout's work is based on a foundation of science to inform our restoration, policy and legal work.
Our partnership with UC Davis is a
great example of how we put science into action."
- Curtis Knight, CalTrout Executive Director
Juvenile coho salmon feeding on Big Springs Creek, a tributary to Shasta River. Video by Carson Jeffries
Ultimately, we are helping CalTrout achieve their goal of developing and executing practical approaches to improve habitat conditions for native trout, steelhead, and salmon throughout California. The CWS has collaborated with CalTrout on numerous projects over the last decade and the partnership’s scope and breadth continues to broaden. More recently, our partnership has focused on the Knagg’s Ranch project in the Central Valley and the Shasta River in northern California. While the projects have different conservation implications, and, likely, outcomes, they overlap in the most basic sense of the partnership: the use of science to inform conservation policy and engagement with the local community.