Natural Infrastructure: Our Coastal Restoration Video Series Kicks Off

Six years into our major restoration programming, Wild Salmon Center and our partners have built deep working relationships with Pacific Northwest coastal salmon communities. Our science-based approach to habitat restoration is already paying big dividends—as you can see in our "Natural Infrastructure" video series. With historic new federal fish passage and resilience funding opening up, we could see a quantum leap forward for watersheds and communities in the next five years. Watch what that could mean for salmon strongholds across the West Coast.

Introducing Heart of Steel, Our New Steelhead Story Series

“Fish are the heart of it,” says Ann Penn-Charles, a member of the Quileute Tribe on Washington's Olympic Coast. “If you took the fish away from the people, the people wouldn’t be able to feed their spirit.” For Miss Ann, there isn’t a way to separate steelhead from the story of her family, her community, her history. After more than a century of broken promises, the Quileute Tribe is reclaiming stewardship of its traditional fisheries. But there's a problem: steelhead are disappearing. Everyone agrees we need action to save this species: perhaps even federal listing under the Endangered Species Act. This time, can we get recovery right? Read "Steelhead Season"—Part I of our new story series Heart of Steel.

Meet Nicole Rasmussen, Our New Fish Habitat Specialist on the Washington Coast

For the past 16 years, Nicole Rasmussen has applied her skills as a water quality and habitat biologist for the Port Gamble S’klallam Tribe, Quinault Indian Nation, and the Quileute Tribe on the Olympic Peninsula. In that time, she's logged countless river miles to assess fish passage and road decommissioning projects, steer ambitious restoration campaigns, and build up data sets on water temperature, eDNA, and more. Now Rasmussen brings this experience to Wild Salmon Center's growing Washington-based restoration team as our new Fish Habitat Specialist. Welcome, Nicole!

The mission of the Wild Salmon Center is to promote the conservation and sustainable use of wild salmon ecosystems across the Pacific Rim.

Photo/illustration/video still credits (from top): Quillayute River (still courtesy McKenna Asakawa and Brady Holden); Steelhead illustration (Kate Spencer, modified); Wild Salmon Center Fish Habitat Specialist Nicole Rasmussen (Brady Holden); fly fishing (Ken Morrish).

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