Category

Conservation

  • Advocacy

    Navigating public land oil and gas leasing

    Our public lands are the foundation of healthy watersheds and strong communities. From remote trout streams to working forests and rangelands, these places provide clean water, vital trout habitat, sporting opportunity and public access for all Americans. But pressures like efforts to sell off and privatize public land threaten what makes them so valuable. This…

  • Restoration

    Teamwork Leads to Dreamwork on Wilson Creek in Dunn County 

    Sometimes the right place and the right people come together at exactly the right time to create a stream restoration project that is truly remarkable.  The place is 7200 feet of the North Branch of Wilson Creek in Dunn County, Wisc., on the properties of Bill Manwarren and Josh Edhlund.    Wilson Creek, like many Driftless streams, was straightened on these properties to increase land available for agriculture and to improve efficiency with large…

  • Barriers Conservation Priority Waters

    Capital Culverts: The Road Stream Crossings of Dane County, Wisc.  

    This summer, Trout Unlimited employed two seasonal technicians to collect culvert and bridge inventory data in Dane County, Wisc.    This inventory is part of our larger effort to better understand the extent of habitat fragmentation across the Driftless Area and ensure that we have sufficient information about outdated infrastructure to have ready solutions when it…

  • Restoration

    Re-routing quickly heals wayward Michigan stream

    When Trout Unlimited crews and contractors dive into a construction project, they move fast. Often, it takes just a week or two of construction to complete the work.  Getting to construction can be a longer haul.  It was more than a decade ago when Chad Kotke, a stream restoration specialist on TU’s Great Lakes team, learned…

  • Conservation

    An unlikely case study for trout conservation: Arizona

    From securing national monuments to scaling up multi-million-dollar projects, Arizona’s policy and restoration work is ready to take center stage. Yes, Arizona has native trout. And, yes, we have quite an advocate for them in Nathan Rees, Trout Unlimited’s Arizona state lead. Apache trout country A family man in the Phoenix Valley, Rees’s role is…

  • Advocacy

    Working to keep fishing and hunting access in Nevada

    Our public lands are the foundation of healthy watersheds and strong communities. From remote trout streams to working forests and rangelands, these places provide clean water, vital trout habitat, sporting opportunity and public access for all Americans. But pressures like efforts to sell off and privatize public land threaten what makes them so valuable. This…