Author

Mark Taylor

  • New film highlights those who guard our waters

    By Mark Taylor Trout Unlimited and its volunteers aren’t content to simply talk about the importance of clean, cold water. We act. And that passion for action is what drives TU’s Eastern Shale Gas Monitoring Program. The program engages, trains and supports citizen scientists who monitor their local streams to identify and limit the potential…

  • Voices from the river

    Voices from the River: Author Tom Johnson

    Trout Unlimited member Tom Johnson released his second book, "Threaded Journeys," last summer. The book is a series of essays about two of Johnson’s passions: fly fishing and bowhunting, with interweaving discussions on conservation, health and our national welfare. Johnson grew up in central Massachusetts with a father and four brothers who shared many similar…

  • Reconnecting trout and people in West Virginia

    Replacing an undersized culvert with this bridge not only reduced flooding risks on a small tributary to the Capacon River in West Virginia, it reconnected 4.5 miles of native brook trout habitat. (Photo: Abby McQueen, TU stream restoration specialist) By Brooke Andrew The Trout Unlimited field staff in West Virginia are firm believers in our…

  • Protect Wisconsin’s public land

    As a kid, Taylor Ridderbusch didn't realize how fortunate he was to live near 660,000 acres of public land in Nothern Wisconsin. By Taylor Ridderbusch Growing up in Northern Wisconsin, I took the Nicolet National Forest for granted. I didn’t realize that it was unusual to have more than 660,000 acres of public land right…

  • Forest Service honors Home Rivers Initiative in East

    By Mark Taylor Trout Unlimited doesn’t work to win awards. But that doesn’t mean it’s not great when recognition comes TU’s way. The U.S. Forest Service has honored TU’s Eastern Home Rivers initiative as the Volunteer and Service Award winner for the agency’s Region 9, in the Restoration category. Michael Owen, aquatic ecologist for the…

  • Tracking trout in the wilds of Vermont

    By Mark Taylor Scientists tend to have a pretty simple philosophy about data: More is better. So Jud Kratzer can be forgiven for not hurriedly working up a paper on results he’s seeing while surveying streams in Vermont, where he has been studying the effects of habitat restoration work on brook trout populations. After all,…