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Busy as Beavers
Trout Unlimited hosts youth from around the country to restore Flaming Gorge watersheds Years of volunteer work have led to a $1.5 million investment through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Last week, Trout Unlimited completed one phase of its multi-year restoration effort work along Sage Creek near Greater Little Mountain. Sage Creek and its tributary Trout Creek, part…
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Leave it to Beavers
Patagonia celebrates the restoration work of TU’s Northeast Oregon Hand Crew Initiative in a new story and video Each summer, the young adult members of TU’s Northeast Oregon Hand Crew Initiative spend weeks camping in national forests, restoring miles of trout and salmon habitat by building beaver dams and log jams, planting willows by hand…
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Driftless program adds first Iowa staffer
Cameron Aker joins team as Iowa engagement coordinator As the Iowa Driftless Engagement Coordinator for Trout Unlimited, Cameron Aker helps connect growers, landowners, anglers, volunteer groups, and government agencies to help restore the cold-water habitats of Iowa. Cameron has spent the past 17 years of his career in the Ag Industry, where he worked with…
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Big projects on tap in Driftless Area
Several major restoration projects are on tap for the coming field season in the Driftless Area, one of Trout Unlimited's Priority Waters. Here are several of the biggest efforts on tap Nohr Chapter - Snow Bottom Stream Improvement Project - Wisconsin The Nohr Chapter was awarded a Department of Natural Resources Surface Water Grant to…
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The human beavers of the Weber
How TU staffers in Utah are taking their local landscapes back to the times of mountain men Rising out of the northwestern Uinta Mountains in Utah, the Weber River follows a serpentine path for 125 miles before making it to the Great Salt Lake. A couple hundred years ago, this area was prized by mountain…
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Reconnecting the Mettawee: Six dams down
When it comes to long-term restoration projects, Erin Rodgers measures the passage of time not so much by clocks and calendars, but by kids. So it was when recently recounting a multi-year project on Vermont’s Mettawee River; Rodgers thought back to two big life moments to help her remember the project’s pace. “The Mettawee is…
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Preventing a death by a thousand cuts
Protecting Yellowstone Cutthroat from deadly threats in their historical range.
Protecting what’s left of Montana’s most iconic cutthroat population It’s incredible to catch a Yellowstone Cutthroat just outside of America’s first National Park – one that anglers flock to from all around the world to experience. But we’re catching less of them now than ever before. Yellowstone Cutthroat trout now occupy about 43% of their…
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