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Blue Dot: Watershed Restoration with CalTrout: a conversation with Curtis Knight

Fly angler on the McCloud River.
Curtis Knight
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CalTrout
Fly angler on the McCloud River.

Host Dave Schlom is joined by the Executive Director of California Trout, Curtis Knight, to talk about the conservation organization and its regional restoration projects across the state.

California Trout Executive Director Curtis Knight
CalTrout
California Trout Executive Director Curtis Knight

From southern California Steelhead trying to access spawning waters in Malibu to high country meadow restoration and the removal of dams along the Klamath River, CalTrout is a leading organization trying to preserve and protect the best waters in the state for our imperiled salmonids (steelhead, salmon and trout).

From humble beginnings on Shasta County's legendary Hat Creek over fifty years ago to now being a leader in science-based solutions to protect clean cold water for increasingly threatened ecosystems, California Trout is a leading voice for fish, water, and people! Recently, the San Francisco-based non-profit received a perfect rating from Charity Navigator for its outstanding accountability to donors.

Dave Schlom is the longtime host and creator of Blue Dot. From surfing to Voyager in interstellar space, rock guitar to orcas in our imperiled oceans, the topics on Blue Dot are as varied as the host’s interests and connections -- which are pretty limitless! An internationally respected space history journalist, Dave is also deeply fascinated by all aspects of the grand workings of nature’s awesome machinery on scales ranging from galactic to subatomic. And topics take in all aspects of the arts and sciences.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.