Author

Mark Taylor

  • Voices from the river

    Voices from the River: Browned out

    By Mark Taylor The river was brown. Coffee-with-heavy-cream brown. It's-been-raining-for-days brown. You-don’t-have-a-chance-in-hell brown. “Top off the raft and get the stuff down to the shore while I go drop off the truck,” I told my fishing partner for the day, Brett Prettyman. “I’ll probably be back before you’re done.” So, if conditions were more appropriate…

  • Tour TU’s Driftless projects on Oct. 16

    Save the Date: Tuesday, October 16, for the 2018 Driftless Projects Tour. We'll spend a lovely autumn day on a comfortable charter bus touring a major multiyear Driftless Watershed project and a smaller stream with some unique characteristics. If you've fished the last day of trout season October 15 (except in Iowa), you can ease…

  • New Jersey Trout Unlimited teams up to improve public lands

    By Cole Baldino On June 18, 2018, a large excavator entered the quiet banks of the Musconetcong River in Bloomsbury, a restoration plan now under way and an arsenal of native limestone boulders at the ready. Five days later the machine was gone and this 1,300-foot section of state-owned Wildlife Management Area had been restored,…

  • Conservation Portfolio Analysis aids brook trout efforts in NE

    By Keith Curley Brook trout are often looked at through the lens of decline, and with good reason – brook trout have been lost from many of their historical habitats. The Northeast, however, continues to be blessed with an abundance of brook trout habitat. According to TU’s Conservation Portfolio, Range-wide Assessment, and Focal Area assessment…