114 reactions · 180 comments | Restoration is possible, but only if we act now. Removing the lower four Snake River dams will bring a brighter future for wild salmon, steelhead, and our Pacific Northwest communities. | Trout Unlimited | Facebook

New Film Alert‼️ Check out the amazing work being led by Jackson Hole Trout Unlimited to Strengthen the Snake River in Wyoming. Facing dynamic challenges, the river’s mainstem can fluctuate from 30,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) to just 280 cfs in a single season – a flow reduction of 90 percent. Combined with human-driven changes resulting in riverbank erosion, land loss and degraded habitat for native Snake River cutthroat trout, TU is working to address these challenges and restore this icon

The South Fork Snake River supports one of the most important river populations of native Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Idaho, as well as other popular non-native trout including rainbow trout and brown trout. Since the early 2000’s Fisheries Biologists have operated fish traps, known as weirs, on tributaries of the South Fork Snake River to limit hybridization between the native Yellowstone Cutthroat and non-native Rainbow Trout. These weirs are still in operation today and are an important co