Summer-run steelhead are ‘top athletes’ and ‘extraordinary’
“In many ways, summer steelhead are the most extreme athletes of the steelhead, allowing them to get up to habitats higher in the watersheds like the Middle Fork Eel River in the Yolla Bolly Wilderness, their southernmost stronghold where they have unimpeded access,” said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Damon Goodman. “Having clear routes of passage to be able to make it up and express their life history is critical to their survival.”