Working with the federal agencies, the Foundation helps fund decommissioning of forest service roads to reduce future erosion, placement of logs into connecting watersheds, replacement of old culverts to allow aquatic organism passage, purchasing seeds and trees following fires to improve spawning habitat.

In 1992, poachers dynamited the Big Bend Pool on Steamboat Creek, killing many fish on the river’s most important spawning tributary, and threatening the long-term viability of the river’s wild fish stock. The Foundation led an effort to raise a reward to lead to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrators. and acquired high-tech monitoring equipment to help catch and successfully prosecute poachers. Each year since 1992, the Foundation has funded a guardian to stay at the pool from May until the end of November.