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Idaho’s spring Chinook season: A reminder of what we’ve lost and what we can still restore
In late March, after a series of public meetings, the Idaho Fish and Game Commission announced Idaho’s 2026 spring Chinook season. Let’s be clear, as important as it is to have an opportunity to fish and harvest hatchery salmon, the limited spring Chinook season in Snake River basin is not a sign of recovered wild populations. These fish are still far from healthy and harvestable goals and nowhere…
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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. The Magalloway Collaborative is working to raise $62 million to conserve 78,000 thousand acres in the Northern Appalachians, hard…
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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. As of January 2026, the partnership has already accomplished 75 percent of their goal. Over the course of the last decade, the partnership has restored access to 137 miles…
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What is Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration?
Acronyms such as LTPBR (Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration), PBR (Process-Based Restoration), BDA (Beaver Dam Analog), PALS (Post-Assisted Log Structure), LWD (Large Woody Debris), and ELJ (Engineered Log Jam) are used all over the stream restoration community. Whether referring to the design manual published by Wheaton et al. through Utah State University or just referring to the…
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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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Places worth protecting: George Washington/Jefferson National Forest
The George Washington/Jefferson National Forest is 1.8 million acres of outdoor mecca in Western Virginia, and a Brook trout fishing heaven.
Gnats! Of course there would be gnats. It wasn’t even April, yet here they were; swarming around my head as I sat on my truck’s tailgate lacing up my wading boots before a hike into one of my go-to native brook trout streams. Sometimes you have to take the bad with the good, and fortunately…
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A valid question; How’s fishing after restoration projects?
An angler might wonder; what will one of Trout Unlimited’s restoration projects do to the fishing? It’s a valid question. At times we work with contractors to add numerous logs (or even full trees) and woody debris in a stream to make the habitat more complex. We break up long, straight riffle sections with j-hook rock structures to slow down the flow and create deeper holding water. TU…
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