The River is
Coming Home
Right now, crews are on the ground near La Grange. You can help the Tuolumne run wild again before the salmon return this fall.
A generation ago, the Tuolumne had the largest salmon run in the entire San Joaquin Valley.
Today it has the smallest.
99%
— the decline in the Tuolumne’s
salmon run from what it once was
This summer, your gift helps the Tuolumne
run wild again.
It’s early on a summer morning at a bend in the Tuolumne River, just below La Grange, and a crew is already hard at work. For years, this stretch was cut off from the life of the river: a straightened channel and old mining gravel where salmon couldn’t spawn and young fish had nowhere to feed or hide. For the first time in a long time, this bend is getting ready to hold salmon again.
The habitat you help build this summer is what the salmon come home to this fall.
Miss the window, and the river waits another year.
Make it, and a river that was nearly written off takes one real step back toward life.
Your gift goes
straight to
the ground
Restoration is slower and less glamorous than the word suggests. It requires the coordination and partnerships with many organizations. Most of it happens with no one watching: crews out in the heat, moving gravel the river will sort for itself, planting the young trees that will one day shade the water.
Bring the salmon back, and the rest of the river comes with them: the birds, the wildlife, and the clean flows that towns and farms downstream depend on.
Your gift is what keeps the work moving while the window is open.
3 Million
Californians drink water carried by these rivers
480,000
Acres of Central Valley farmland nourished by these watersheds
600+
wildlife species supported
40+ years of on-the-ground conservation
run wild
with us
The fall run is coming whether the river is ready or not. The supporters who step up now are the ones who make everything that follows possible. Will you give while the crews are still on the ground?
750ft
New channel meander
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Thanks to the partners already committed to this river: the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the Wildlife Conservation Board.