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Mark Taylor

  • Parkside Elementary, TU team up to protect Rum Creek in Mich.

    By Jamie Vaughan Rockford – Parkside Elementary students are changing the way their school is impacting their neighboring trout stream. The past two years, Parkside fifth graders have been analyzing the health of Rum Creek, an important coldwater tributary to the Rogue River, and decided they wanted to improve the footprint of the school on…

  • What’s good for the forest is good for the trout

    Volunteers plant trees along a small stream in the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay. Healthy riparian buffers are important for streams. By Steve Moyer Healthy trees, in addition to Trout Unlimited members and mayflies, has to be high on a trout’s best friends list. That is why TU is applauding Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) for…

  • Voices from the river

    Voices from the River: Haunted

    By Mark Taylor You know how time can seem to slow down in an emergency or stressful situation? It’s a real thing, basically a function of the brain sending a big old shot of adrenaline into the bloodstream. The fancy word for it is tachypsychia, and it what I was experiencing as stood waist deep…

  • Invasives symposium draws interest in NH

    By Eliza Perreault What do you get when you cross state agencies, non-profit organizations, conservation districts, and federal agencies? An UCCISMA! That is an acronym for the Upper Connecticut Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area. Add in local town leaders, educators, invasive treatment specialists, and road agents and you have a model for an Invasive Plant…

  • Voices from the river

    Voices from the River: Cheap and Easy

    By Mark Taylor I have a friend who is an artist at the fly-tying vise. I mean, literally an artist. His creations don’t end up in the water, let alone in a fish’s mouth. They go into shadow boxes. Other friends actually fish their fancy flies, including articulated streamers that can take an hour each…

  • Students, volunteers celebrate Connecticut’s Salmon Creek

    In celebration of Earth Day, Sharon Central School students and local volunteers took part in a day-long planting project to help restore the banks of the Salmon Creek in Salisbury on Tuesday, April 24. At the annual Salmon Kill Watershed Festival organized by Trout Unlimited and the Housatonic Valley Association, students planted native trees and shrubs such as…