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Tomorrow Fund a cornerstone of support for TU youth programs
Guadalupe River chapter in Texas founded fund for Headwater's program What motivates people to give? Chances are, if you are reading this, you are a giver. As a TU leader you recruit volunteers, pick up trash while you fish, and donate much of your time to the causes you believe in the most. You work alongside your community members to care for a local stream, and you extend…
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Headwaters program expanding in Pacific Northwest thanks to new partner
For more than a decade, Trout Unlimited has been working with students from kindergarten through high school as part of my project work and community engagement in Central Oregon. Via my field education role with TU, I have been connecting students with local streams and providing hands-on conservation work within the Deschutes River watershed. I’m…
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TU moms share and learn about the outdoors from their kids
Besides, what if her children – including those she has worked with through Trout Unlimited’s youth initiative programs - emerged as leaders of conservation and increase their generation’s efforts to restore and protect nature?
The joy of discovery and setting an example Long before she was a mother, Tara Granke understood the importance of connecting kids to nature. When her son, August, arrived nearly three years ago she quickly became aware of how much she could learn from him. “It is so amazing to watch his sense of wonder…
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People need to take conservation seriously
Trout Unlimited teen essay contest honorable mention Editor’s Note: Trout Unlimited’s annual Teen Essay Contest, like many things impacted by Covid, took on a different look in 2020. Our youth camps across the country were cancelled so we opened up the youth contest to all comers. Kyle Livinghouse's entry was picked as an honorable mention by…
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Catching native trout in Yellowstone leads to thoughts on conservation
We can see that as time goes on, the world needs more and more help from the destruction we have done to it. We all need to take start taking a part in conservation, the world needs it.
Trout Unlimited's teen essay contest honorable mention Editor’s Note: Trout Unlimited’s annual Teen Essay Contest, like many things impacted by Covid, took on a different look in 2020. Our youth camps across the country were cancelled so we opened up the youth contest to all comers. Riley Nebolsine's entry was picked as an honorable mention by…
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Diving into science helps one young angler appreciate fishing
Trout Unlimited teen essay contest 2nd-place winner Editor’s Note: Trout Unlimited’s annual Teen Essay Contest, like many things impacted by Covid, took on a different look in 2020. Our youth camps across the country were cancelled so we opened up the youth contest to all comers. Lily Palfrey's entry was picked as the second-place winner by…
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Observing nature’s food chain as an insider
If the land is so important to me, then I can only imagine how important the land must be to them. Without conservation, the great Bristol Bay region of Alaska wouldn’t be what it is today
Trout Unlimited essay grand prize winner Editor’s Note: Trout Unlimited’s annual Teen Essay Contest, like many things impacted by Covid, took on a different look in 2020. Our youth camps across the country were cancelled so we opened up the youth contest to all comers. Ethan Bertini’s entry was picked as the first-place winner by the…
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