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From the President: Keep it Roadless
I was talking with a colleague today and he asked, “Why should I even bother to comment on the proposal to rescind the roadless rule? It won’t make a difference. They don’t care about my opinion.” I told him he was 100 percent wrong. Our public lands help to define the freedoms inherent in being
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Sprague River – Restoring water and habitat in the Klamath headwaters
After over two decades of advocacy, negotiation and engineering, the four dams blocking the Klamath River came down over the course of 2023 – 2024. With the final barrier breached in September 2024, within weeks Chinook salmon were found in tributaries above the former dam sites. Since then, the fish have astounded biologists by quickly
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In the Rubies, variety is the name of the game
As an angler, I put a premium on variety. While I do have favorite holes on my local stream that I return to again and again, what has kept the passion alive in me throughout my life is the sheer number of different places and species that fishing allows me to interact with. As an angling generalist (happy casting
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Reconnecting the Moose for brookies
In June, TU and our partners at the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) excitedly kick off the beginning of implementation of the South Branch Moose River Reconnection Project. Over the next three to five years, the project’s goal is to replace 63 culverts and reconnect 44 miles of prime native brook trout waters.
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Drought and native trout: Colorado and Rio Grande Rivers
Finding resilience in a summer of reckoning across the Rockies and Southwest We’ve all seen the headlines: fast growing wildfires, record low snowpack, drying reservoirs, heat waves, hoot owl restrictions, mandatory fishing closures and other worrisome conditions for our favorite coldwater critters. But for humans, too, these challenges remain stubborn after 25+ years of drought in a lot of the West. Across the Colorado
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Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, Cast and Blast: Part Two
Rounding out the fishing part of this Grand Canyon National Monument cast and blast is my visit Lee’s Ferry, one of Arizona’s best blue-ribbon trout fisheries.
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Free Fly x TU: Protecting an iconic trout
Yellowstone cutthroat trout are among the West’s most iconic native fish, but today they occupy just 43% of their historic stream habitat, with only a small fraction of those remaining populations considered secure. Unlike introduced rainbow and brown trout, Yellowstone cutthroat evolved over thousands of years in the headwaters of the Yellowstone River Basin, perfectly
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Video of the Week – A Beautiful Mess
Complexity is part of what creates a great trout stream. Varying depths and flows and structure in the form of rocks and trees create that intricacy and add hiding places. For that reason alone, crews are cutting down trees and adding them to streams to improve habitat for brook trout. Watch “A Beautiful Mess” to learn more.
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Video of the Week – A River’s Reckoning
Watch A River’s Reckoning to see how the Bruchez family, along with so many agricultural producers across the West, are demonstrating that healthy rivers and working lands can go hand in hand.
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We went to court to defend Bristol Bay. Here’s what happened.
At the end of June, during the height of the world’s largest wild salmon run, Trout Unlimited, partners and advocates continued the fight to keep safeguards in place preventing the Pebble Mine.
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