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Collaboration is king among Pacific Northwest agencies
Editor’s note: TU sent a handful of college students to the Pacific Northwest for this year’s TU Costa 5 Rivers Odyssey to study and fish in the Columbia River basin. Oregon State University’s campus is home to the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station where the Odyssey group was fortunate enough to sit in…
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Odyssey team explores human impact on the Columbia and its fish
Editor's note: TU sent a handful of college students to the Pacific Northwest for this year's TU Costa 5 Rivers Odyssey to study and fish in the Columbia River basin. The Odyssey team’s journey started in typical Pacific Northwest fashion, a little bit of sunshine, and a fair amount of rain. We set out the…
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New brochure highlights TU’s Driftless program
Trout Unlimited's Driftless Area Restoration Effort is an incredible conservation success story, and one that is going as strong as ever. Highlights of the program are beautifully and succinctly captured in a new 16-page brochure produced by the program's leaders. TUDR-0419-01-16_final-single-page-as-printed-1-1Download The brochure isn't just a retrospective of the impact of the 15-year effort, but…
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Rivers connect people
I'm in Little Rock, Ark., this week for the Outdoor Writers Association of America conference. Our hotel is situated right on the banks of what looks to be an angry Arkansas River. Years ago, I worked as an editor and reporter for a couple of small newspapers about 1,000 miles away, near the headwaters of…
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Notes from a first-year instructor and student at the Bristol Bay Fly Fishing and Guide Academy
By Meghan Barker While I spend the majority of my work time in front of a “Save Bristol Bay” booth, or talking with supportive Trout Unlimited members and leaders about the proposed Pebble Mine, the first Monday in June brought a different start to my work week. I loaded up my car with a tote of…
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House passes bill to cease Corps funding for Pebble permit
The House of Representatives took dramatic and much-needed action Wednesday, and voted 233-201 in support of a measure that, if passed by both chambers of Congress, would prohibit continued investment by the Army Corps of Engineers in processing the permit application for the proposed Pebble Mine in southwest Alaska. TU members and supporters were essential…
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SweetWater Brewing and TU team up again for fundraiser
SweetWater Brewing Company has once again invited Trout Unlimited to be a partner in the company’s annual Save Our Water campaign. This is the fourth consecutive year that Sweetwater and Trout Unlimited have collaborated in the effort, in which SweetWater provides a matching grant of up to $20,000 to each participating conservation partner. For 2019 SweetWater will donate up to $80,000…
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