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Jeff Yates

  • Community

    New Great Website – Same Great Leaders Only Tools

    /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/blog/New-Website.JPG In the coming days, Trout Unlimited will be unveiling our new website - a site that captures the passion we all feel about conservation, fishing and protecting the places we love. It makes it faster, easier, and more exciting to learn how you and TU are making a difference, and connect with other s…

  • TU Who? Awareness is Essential to Growing Our Impact

    Our work will take generations to accomplish and every chance we get to educate and inspire the broader community to care for our streams is another opportunity to raise awareness and build a larger coalition around our conservation efforts. by Jeff Yates If a dam tumbles down on a small, babbling brook and no-one hears…

  • Conservation Community

    An Incredible Year of Local, Grassroots Impact

    Thanks to more than 300,000 volunteers, members and supporters, TU's local impact continues to grow, with more than 731,000 volunteer hours reported in fiscal year 2018! By Jeff Yates Cold, clean, fishable water doesn’t come easy. It takes the right mix of protected headwater habitat, reconnected stream systems and the constant restoration of degraded areas…

  • Jeff Wright hired as Trout Unlimited Southeast volunteer coordinator

    Trout Unlimited is happy to announce that we’ve hired Jeff Wright to serve as our new Southeast volunteer coordinator. Jeff will work with TU Volunteer Operations staff and regional conservation staff to engage, inform and empower TU’s volunteers to advance coldwater conservation in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee. Jeff’s passion for conservation and…

  • Uncle Salmo Wants You

    Have you considered stepping up as a TU volunteer leader? As this great poster designed by Michelle O’Bryant and Tim Moore of North Carolina's 072 - Blue Ridge Chapter, TU wants you to volunteer!Trout Unlimited relies on an army of thousands of volunteers who lend their time and talent to bring our work restoring streams,…

  • One TU in Action on Vermont’s Mettawee River

    What makes Trout Unlimited such a powerful force in conservation across the country is not our expertise in river restoration, led by the world's best and most committed staff. It's not our 420 local chapters and state councils, led by over 4,000 passionate volunteers who marshal our 300,000 members and supporters to take care of local streams, engage…