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Monitoring Kokanee provides insights into health
This year marks the 17th season of Kokanee Salmon Fry Trapping by the Three Rivers Chapter of Trout Unlimited. Based in Issaquah Washington, members and volunteers from the community donate their evenings to count this little native fish. Natasha Kacoroski and Wayne Lamm (Trapping Co-Lead) help excavate an area for the traps collection box. TU’s…
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“Angling for Hope”
A vision for Pennsylvania’s Beech Creek
A vision for Pennsylvania’s Beech Creek An angler looking for a diverse trout angling mecca in the East could do worse than to choose the State College, Pa., area as a base of operations. Small mountain streams teem with native brook trout. Larger lower elevation streams such as Spring Creek, Fishing Creek, Penns Creek and…
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12 hours and 305 miles of trout restoration in Virginia
Surveying a recent Trout Unlimited dam removal site deep in Virginia’s mountains, Dylan Cooper made sure to not just focus on what wasn’t there anymore, but what remained. “The dam was a complete fish passage barrier, so it’s great that we removed it,” said Cooper, a TU stream restoration specialist in Virginia. “But it was…
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Investing in safer roads and thriving fish in Yakutat
The scenery and fishing opportunities here will take your breath away, but even this far-flung corner of Alaska isn’t immune to the degradation of fish habitat that can happen when development occurs alongside rivers and streams.
Yakutat is a land of superlatives. The Situk River is Alaska’s largest steelhead fishery. Hubbard Glacier is North America’s largest tidewater glacier. Snow-capped mountains, vast glaciers and old-growth rainforest surround a rich complex of waterways the are some of the most productive salmon- and steelhead-producing waters in the state. All five species of Alaska’s Pacific…
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Building bridges for fish and people on the Salmon SuperHwy
Department of Transportation investments are improving road infrastructure for fish and local communities on Oregon’s North Coast Over the past decade, the partners working together on the Salmon SuperHwy have been removing barriers to fish migration in watersheds across Oregon’s beautiful North Coast. When they started, they identified 93 priority barriers blocking over 180 miles…
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Protecting the source waters of California’s largest spring creek
The Medicine Lake Highlands complex of public lands, some 30 miles northeast of Mt. Shasta in California’s Cascade region, is a truly remarkable place. In particular, the waters absorbed and released by this rugged landscape are, where they emerge from the ground, incredibly pure and visually appealing. White pelican flying over the Fall River Springs…
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Court rules Kennebec dam owner must re-apply for water quality permit
A U.S. circuit court of appeals recently quashed energy conglomerate Brookfield Renewable’s bid to overturn the state of Maine’s denial of a water quality permit for the Shawmut dam on the Kennebec River. Kirt Mayland is an attorney who specializes in water and hydroelectric issues. We recently caught up with Mayland, who assists Trout Unlimited’s…
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