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  • Advocacy Conservation

    Playing the long game

    [et_pb_section fb_built="1" admin_label="section" _builder_version="3.22"][et_pb_row admin_label="row" _builder_version="3.25" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="3.25" custom_padding="|||" custom_padding__hover="|||"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.0.5" text_text_color="#000000" text_font_size="50px" header_text_align="center" background_enable_image="off" global_module="41735" saved_tabs="all"]Five years of advocacy on behalf of native fish and wild places in the Gila National Forest Make your comments heard today [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.0.5"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.0.5"][et_pb_image src="https://www.tu.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/MM8334_140325__08803-scaled.jpg" _builder_version="4.0.5"][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.0.5"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.0.5"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" _builder_version="4.0.5" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat"…

  • Government Affairs Advocacy Conservation

    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…

  • Conservation Advocacy

    LWCF funding and dollars for maintenance backlog moves forward

    The Great American Outdoors Act would fund LWCF and restoration projects across the country.  On Monday a bipartisan group of Senators introduced the Great American Outdoors Act (S. 3422) to fully and permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and help tackle the multi-billion-dollar public lands maintenance backlog. The legislation follows a press conference…

  • Advocacy Community Conservation Science steelhead TROUT Magazine Women

    Win for Washington waters: What it took

    Steelheaders, anglers and river-lovers of all types in Washington state have new water quality improvements and greater protections for critical wild fish populations to celebrate this month. Washington is currently the only state in the Pacific Northwest that allows suction dredge mining* in fish habitat listed as critical in the Endangered Species Act, meaning it allows an activity known to…

  • Advocacy Conservation Fishing

    Want more Gunnison River? Pass the CORE Act

    [et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="4.3.4"][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.3.4"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.3.4"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.3.4"]Curecanti provision offers overdue access to top Colorado trout fishery [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built="1" fullwidth="on" _builder_version="4.3.4"][et_pb_fullwidth_image src="https://www.tu.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Gunnison-Blue-Mesa-Reservoir-Inlet.jpg" _builder_version="4.0.5" hover_enabled="0"][/et_pb_fullwidth_image][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="4.3.4"][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.3.4"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.3.4"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.0.5" hover_enabled="0"]Photos by Connie Rudd. How does 12 miles of new public fishing access on one of the West’s best trout fisheries sound to you? I know,…