Priority Areas

We want to make a difference for rivers. Our strategy is to focus our efforts on regions that have a high concentration of intact stream ecosystems and biological diversity. We currently work in five such regions:

Washington's Olympic Peninsula, where an array of high-quality salmon streams flow out of protected headwaters in the Olympic National Park.
The Sandy River basin of Oregon, where dam removal will create a free-flowing stream for wild salmon on the outskirts of Portland.
The Central Oregon Coast, which once was a tremendous producer of salmon and steelhead, but has been stressed by the loss of habitat to dairy farming and logging.
The Klamath-Siskiyou Region of southern Oregon and northern California, from the Sixes River south to the Klamath, a region of high-quality streams and tremendous botanical diversity.
The Northern Sierra Nevada foothills, with streams from Battle Creek south to Butte Creek that hold the potential for restoring the Sacramento River's once-great runs of salmon and steelhead..