Local fishing businesses joined together to announce their support for the creation of a new national monument in northern California to permanently protect the water, habitat, and sporting values of the Sáttítla region. Sáttítla, also known as the Medicine Lake highlands, is an area of public lands with truly unique geologic, hydrologic, and habitat values. Much of this area’s productivity for fish and wildlife stems from the fact that the Sáttítla landscape is an enormous, largely pristine hydrological recharge and storage resource, which may absorb as much water as California’s 200 largest reservoirs combined and which discharges over 1.2 million acre-feet of snowmelt annually.  Andrew Harris, owner of Confluence Outfitters based out of Red Bluff, California, said, “The world-famous trout fishery of the Fall River depends on the waters absorbed and filtered by the Sáttítla landscape. This river is California’s largest spring creek and its abundant waters feed the Pit River, Lake Shasta, and the Sacramento River … ”