Western trout have the unusaual characteristic of being localized and widespread at the same time. The combined historic range of all native trout encompasses over 80% of forested lands in the western U.S. A unified Western Trout Campaign, therefore, is an ideal vehicle for attaning habitat protection at the broadest regional level. But the overall range is broken into at least 59 distinct species, subspecies, and populations. This encourages a level of management specificity and conservation concern that is difficult to attain for single wide-ranging species.