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Do we anglers, ourselves, amount to a ‘conservation challenge’?
Angling Trade magazine (of which I am also editor) recently conducted a poll of folks with a stake in the business of fly fishing, asking what they considered to be the greatest conservation issue of the day. Answer number one… climate change. No surprise there, but that probably wouldn’t have been the case even several…
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NOAA: $20M for Trout Unlimited fish passage work
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding supports projects in Washington State, California, Michigan, and Wisconsin This week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Restoration Center announced a broad suite of new projects recommended to receive funding through its Restoring Fish Passage Through Barrier Removal program, supported with new funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). Four…
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The call for rapid change
The call for rapid change Greg McReynolds Dec 12, 2022 Beneath the slack water, it’s all still there. The main channel, braided in places, lined with reef and rock, hemmed in with granite and the dark loam that fueled the old orchards. Only 100 feet of water, less in most places, inundates the river below.…
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Watch now: Little Stream, Big Magic
Film highlights how U.S. Fish & Wildlife and TU are teaming up for brook trout in West Virginia In the opening seconds of the new film “Little Stream, Big Magic,” Trout Unlimited’s Dustin Wichterman drops a profound and powerful tip. “If you want to know the secret to catching fish,” Wichterman starts before breaking into…
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In Bristol Bay, closer than ever to protections
We’re on the verge of gaining long-awaited Clean Water Act safeguards The Environmental Protection Agency moved one step closer this week to determining that dumping mine waste in Bristol Bay’s headwaters would harm globally significant runs of sockeye salmon, setting the stage for the region to receive important Clean Water Act protections. If the EPA…
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Six “lame duck” wishes for trout and salmon
Congress’ lame-duck session offers opportunities for trout and salmon The dust has (mostly) settled following the 2022 midterm elections, and next month a new Congress will be sworn into office. For Trout Unlimited, next year’s 118th congressional session represents an opportunity to forge new relationships and drive our coldwater conservation priorities. But while your newspaper…
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Sharing the water
TU partnership secures permanent water protections for salmon and a historic mill in Oregon’s Rogue River basin Little Butte Creek joins Oregon’s Rogue River near the town of Eagle Point and contains some of the most important salmon and steelhead habitat in the upper Rogue basin. It is also home to the Butte Creek Mill,…

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