Learn how the NOAA Veterans Corps provides opportunities for veterans to build their skills while they help conserve endangered salmon and steelhead in California.
Unique partnership of federal, state, tribal and local agencies, the agriculture industry, and environmental community worked together on a mutually beneficial "working landscape" restoration project supporting West Coast salmon recovery.
$8.2 million will leverage resources and establish lasting partnerships in support of productive and sustainable fisheries, healthy ecosystems, and resilient communities.
Veterans Corps programs in Washington and California provide former service members with valuable skills and job experiences while helping improve endangered and threatened fish populations.
Ocean conditions for salmon headed to sea this year are very poor, with a high likelihood of depressing salmon returns to the Columbia River in the next few years.
As NOAA biologists work to re-establish runs of coho salmon in California, they aim to bring back some of the diversity of the wild populations that once thrived there.
