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Science panel excited about numbers on Yellowstone Lake
By Dave Sweet “Victory on Yellowstone Lake is within our grasp!” Those words came from Dr. Michael Hansen during the Science Review Panel meetings held last week on the Yellowstone Cutthroat Recovery in Yellowstone Lake project. Hansen is the recently retired supervisory research fisheries biologist for the Great Lakes Science Center of the United States…
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New StoryMap highlights Tippy Dam project in Michigan
Highlights of the important restoration work on the Manistee
Trout Unlimited has produced an informative ArcGIS StoryMap highlighting an important 2019 restoration project on Michigan's Manistee River.TU, the Forest Service, Huron-Manistee National Forest and other partners completed Phase I of a multi-year project aimed to restore the severely eroded banks of the Manistee River below Tippy Dam in Wellston. The project site, known locally…
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Fish need water — people need jobs
By Justin Bezold In much of the arid western United States the scarcity of resources, especially water, creates a competition that often pits would-be-friends against each other. In central Washington’s Yakima Basin that narrative is changing as Trout Unlimited’s Yakima team and the Kittitas Reclamation District’s (KRD) secretary-manager, Urban Eberhart, work with other Yakima Basin…
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TU, partners release report on pipeline-related sediment regs
The recent and ongoing buildout of pipeline infrastructure in Central Appalachia has brought large-scale construction and earth disturbances to coldwater watersheds throughout the region. TU and our partners at the West Virginia Rivers Coalition have released a new report discussing how sediment pollution is regulated in West Virginia and Virginia, and how turbidity standards could…
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Good outcomes from field season
By Jason Willis It seemed like a good time to shed light on some positives from the 2019 field season as we deal with the trying times currently enveloping our country. Here is a brief history, summary and outcome of the successful Monarch Pass Gravel Mine project. The U.S. Forest Service’s Salida Ranger District released…
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TU’s Maryland team meets with Congressional staffs to tout program’s successes
Started in 2018, Trout Unlimited’s Western Maryland Initiative has been making progress improving habitat for native brook trout and other species — work that also benefits the health of the Chesapeake Bay. Stable sources of funding are critical for the initiative’s success, which is why the program’s coordinator, Seth Moessinger recently joined other conservation organization representatives in Washington, D.C., to meet…
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TU replanting Michigan forests hit by ash borer
By Jamie Vaughan While emerald ash borer is old news in Lower Michigan, the impacts are still playing out today. In Sparta, ash trees once dominated the floodplain forests along Nash creek. Now, few live trees remain among thousands of dead trees in various states of decay. With limited markets for firewood, poor accessibility due to saturated soils, and risks…
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