Coastal Oregon Watersheds Managed for Wild Salmon and Steelhead
Map depicting Oregon Coast watersheds managed under the new Multi-Species Conservation and Management Plan.
Map depicting Oregon Coast watersheds managed under the new Multi-Species Conservation and Management Plan.
The Wild Salmon Center (WSC) sponsored an economic analysis project to review the effects of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) Coastal Multi-Species Conservation and Management Plan (CMP).
"Protecting any wild land under law in the 21st century is an extraordinary achievement, but the Koppi stands out, Mariusz Wroblewski at the WSC told us, because, 'it is the best sea-run taimen river in the world.' The refuge’s charter evolved out of ten years of hearings at the local, regional, and federal levels that sought, Wroblewski says, to answer 'the central question of, ‘How can the community that relies on the resource somehow protect it?’'"
Map with release sites, as well as the breakdown of which species were released.
Newly designated national park in the Russian Far East.
Current global status of taimen and the need to implement aggressive conservation measures to avoid population and species-level extinction. By Peter S. Rand.
A proposal for federal legislation to collaboratively manage clean water and healthy habitat on key Western Oregon watersheds.