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The last, best run.

Butte Creek holds California's last, best run of wild spring-run chinook. For over 25 years we've kept water in the creek and salmon coming home. Your gift keeps them running.

Since 1999 — over 25 years for this creek

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Every gift goes straight to the water and the fish. No account needed.

$50 plants and protects native trees that shade the cold water salmon need.

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Friends of Butte Creek is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit · EIN 68-0470009 · IRS determination letter · Gifts are tax-deductible.

Why the salmon?

The salmon hold the whole canyon together. Bears, birds, trees, even the soil — all of it feeds on the fish coming home. Most people never know that. When you keep the salmon running, you keep everything running.

$25 · AlevinJust hatched. Where every run begins.
$50 · FryGrowing strong in cold water.
$100 · SmoltHeaded for the ocean.
$250 · Rainbow TroutThe creek's year-round resident.
$500 · Steelhead SupporterOcean-run and home to the creek again.
$1,000 · Butte Creek Spring RunHome to spawn. Your name in the creek's story.
Butte Creek running clear over a gravel bar between willow-lined banks
View our Salmon Cam which is also entirely funded by amazing friends like you.

More ways to give

Bank transfer or check

Give straight from your bank account (ACH). Lower fees than cards, so more of your gift reaches the creek. We’ll email you a secure link from Square.

Checks payable to Friends of Butte Creek · 2024 West Sacramento Ave., Chico, CA 95973.

Request a bank-transfer link → Fish Flow Forever Fund

Help grow the endowment behind one of the first nonprofit-held instream water rights in California.

Or mail a check payable to FBC FFFF to the address above.

Give on GoFundMe → Michael Smith Salmon Water Endowment

Honor a founding friend of the creek through the North Valley Community Foundation. Card, ACH or check (payable to Michael Smith Salmon Water Endowment, 1811 Concord Ave., Suite 220, Chico, CA 95928).

Give through NVCF → Stock, estate, land and water, corporate gifts

Write to friends@buttecreek.org to give through stock, estate planning, Butte Creek lands and water, or your company.

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