The Conservation Alliance

Since 1971, California Trout has worked to protect and restore California's wild trout, steelhead, and salmon streams - streams that supply our state's most precious resource: water. Under increasing threat from dramatic population growth and the effects of global climate change, these cold, clean streams that sustain our fish and enable our state's economy to thrive, require coordinated and strategic conservation efforts to endure.

Indeed, California is facing unprecedented challenges. Nine of California's eleven native trout species are threatened or endangered, as are 30 of the 32 salmonids native to our state. Half of all original river flows are diverted for human use. Water resources, water bottling, and water rights have become state and national issues of historic importance.

Based in San Francisco, the organization employs a full-time staff of 16 including six conservation managers who work in communities across California to protect and restore California's key watersheds: the Eastern Sierra, the North and South coasts, Lake Tahoe, and the Mt. Shasta region. California Trout has a membership of over 7,000 and participates in coalitions that represent more than 250,000 Californians.