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Chris Wood cautions Congress: eliminating the Roadless Rule would upend 25 years of balanced public land management
In testimony before the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee, Trout Unlimited President and CEO Chris Wood opposed H.R. 7895, a bill that would nullify the 2001 Roadless Rule nationwide and prevent similar rules from being created and administered in the future. “The Roadless Rule strikes a common-sense balance: the rule allows forest health projects and hazardous fuels treatments in Roadless Areas. Off highway vehicles, grazing,
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A 133-mile river cleanup? That’s the longtime goal for “Sweep the South Branch”
Stream cleanups are a great way for Trout Unlimited to engage with communities. Every year TU members and supporters connect on hundreds of rivers for events that make streams healthier and prettier. Most of the events last a few hours and produce plenty of trash, from tires to plastic grocery bags to those ubiquitous single-use plastic drink bottles. When TU staffer Jeff Kresch
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Watch: Blueprint – insight into making history
Every year, Trout Unlimited hosts its Costa 5 Rivers Ambassador Summit, where college anglers from across the country come together for a week of conservation, fishing and community. In 2025, the Summit took place on the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming. Idyllic for its natural resource conservation, the Wind River Reservation boasts vast expanses of angling and hunting
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Video of the Week – Flowing Free
The film, Free Flowing, covers Trout Unlimited’s stream restoration work in WI where updating and upgrading culvert barriers allows native trout like brook trout in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest to move freely amongst this spectacular habitat.
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Public lands are worth defending… and that’s just what Idaho did
In Idaho, support for keeping public lands in public hands isn’t just strong—it’s overwhelming. Recent polling shows roughly 96 percent of Idahoans back the idea that public lands should remain accessible to all of us.
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Idaho’s spring Chinook season: A reminder of what we’ve lost and what we can still restore
This isn’t just about whether a fishing season opens on April 25. It’s about addressing the real problem and restoring a free-flowing lower Snake River to rebuild the conditions needed for healthy, harvestable wild salmon and steelhead to return.
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Conserving the lands and waters of the Magalloway
Four conservation organizations have joined forces to purchase and permanently protect a massive tract of wild forestland in Maine’s north country, and some Trout Unlimited stream champions are doing their part to help seal the deal.
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Legacy Contracting: Building bridges for fish and communities on the Salmon SuperHwy
On Oregon’s beautiful North Coast rivers, the Salmon SuperHwy is working hard to reconnect over 180 miles of high-priority, historic salmon, steelhead, lamprey and cutthroat trout habitat in the Tillamook, Nestucca and Sand Lake watersheds.
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What is Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration?
Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration (LTPBR), Beaver Dam Analogs (BDAs), Post-Assisted Log Structures (PALS), and the like are acronyms river and stream restoration specialists are putting. And anglers should find value in learning about them too; because where there is improved habitat, fishing also improves.
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Trout Unlimited names inaugural “Conservation Towns” list
Five rural communities from across the country are staking their futures on conservation In America’s “Conservation Towns,” rural communities that survived the past century’s boom-and-bust cycles are building new blueprints for economic success by tapping into their most important assets: the rivers and streams, public lands and wild landscapes that have always sustained them. At Trout
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