Southern Steelhead Research & Additional Information

PRA CDFW Monitoring Report for Southern Steelhead

Southern California steelhead life cycle monitoring in the Ventura River Watershed 2021-2022

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Dane St. George & Casey Horgan, September 2022

Southern California Steelhead Life Cycle Monitoring in the Topanga Creek Watershed 2021-2022

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Dane St. George, Kyle Evans, Casey Horgan, and Angela Schmidt, September 2022

Southern California Steelhead Life Cycle Monitoring in the Ventura River Watershed 2020-2021

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Kyle Evans & Dane St. George, August 2021

Southern California Steelhead Life Cycle Monitoring in the Topanga Creek Watershed 2020-2021

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Dane St. George & Kyle Evans, August 2021

Mission Creek O. mykiss Monitoring 2020-2021

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Kyle Evans & Hayley Sue, October 2021

Southern California Steelhead Life Cycle Monitoring in the Ventura River Watershed 2019-2020

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Dane St. George & Kyle Evans, August 2020

Southern California Steelhead Life Cycle Monitoring in the Topanga Creek Watershed 2019-2020

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Dane St. George & Kyle Evans, September 2020

Southern California Steelhead Monitoring in the Ventura River Watershed 2018-2019

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Kyle Evans, August 2019

Published Research for Southern Steelhead

Smolt Transformation in Two California Steelhead Populations: Effects of Temporal Variability in Growth

Beakes et al. 2010

Juvenile growth in a population of southern California steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Ethan Bell, Sandra M. Albers, Jenna M. Krug, and Rosi Dagit 2011

Recent adaptation in an imperiled salmonid revealed by museum genomics

Andrew G. Sharo, Megan A. Supple, Randy Cabrera, William E. Seligmann, Samuel Sacco, Cassondra D. Columbus, Devon E. Pearse, Beth Shapiro, John Carlos Garza 2024

Characterization and distribution of a 14-Mb chromosomal inversion in native populations of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Matthew C Hale, Devon E Pearse, Matthew A Campbell 2024

The role of wildfires in the recovery strategy for the endangered southern California steelhead

Mark Henri Capelli 2024

A History of Steelhead and Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in the Santa Ynez River Watershed, Santa Barbara County, California

Peter S. Alagona; Scott D. Cooper; Mark Capelli; Matthew Stoecker; Peggy H. Beedle 2011

The Effects of a Prolonged Drought on Southern Steelhead Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in a Coastal Creek, Los Angeles, California

Rosi Dagit; Ethan Bell; Krista Adamek; Jennifer Mongolo; Elizabeth Montgomery; Nina Trusso; Peter Baker 2017

Southern Steelhead Coalition Resources

Southern California Steelhead Lifecycle - check out the life cycle of Southern California. See where all the life stages fit in specific habitats.

Southern Steelhead Lifecycle - PDF English educational handout

Southern Steelhead Lifecycle - PDF Español (Spanish) educational handout

Southern Steelhead Urban Ecology

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Want learn more about Southern steelhead and their urban ecology? Check out this free downloadable posters! Learn all about how Southern steelhead interacts with their community members in your backyard. On the back of the poster you will find facts about the plants, insects, lizards, mammals, fish, and birds you will find all in Southern California.