Nate's Bio​

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​Nate Yancheff has been a Project Manager with California Trout for the past three years. California Trout is a non-profit organization with nine regional office locations across the state, working to restore California’s rivers and streams for the benefit of the state’s native fish populations. Nate holds a master’s degree in marine biodiversity and conservation from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD, and his work in Southern California focuses on restoring coastal rivers and streams in San Diego, Orange, and Riverside counties for the benefit of endangered Southern steelhead and the surrounding communities. Nate’s key projects include remediating fish passage barriers along Trabuco Creek in San Juan Capistrano in southern Orange County and mitigating invasive aquatic species in the San Mateo Creek Watershed of northern San Diego County and southwestern Riverside County. Nate’s passion for fly fishing and wild, healthy fish populations and ecosystems have driven him to this important work, and outside of CalTrout, you can find him searching for corbina and surf perch along San Diego’s beaches.