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Hiking the CDT: A punny and rough start
Editor’s Note: The Strawbridge family from Lakeland, Fla., is hiking the length of the Continental Divide Trail – all 3,100 miles of it – from Canada to Mexico. Henry Strawbridge, 14, will be providing updates of their journey to Trout Unlimited as they pass through the historic range of seven native trout species. You can track the…
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Idaho bull trout tagged in three different locations in one year
Bull trout range far and wide within connected river systems.
By Jordan Messner Salmon and steelhead are famous for their amazing migrations, but trout and char can pull off some pretty impressive migrations as well. In the fish business, the term "fluvial" refers to a unique life-history where fish migrate between larger river systems where they spend winters and smaller streams where they spawn. Sometimes these migrations…
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Increases in freshwater insects — an opportunity for hope?
By Natalie Stauffer-Olsen We are currently living in the Anthropocene geological age, a period during which human activity is the dominant influence on climate and the environment. Given this, it is no surprise many scientific studies seek to determine the state of biological populations and communities. While many have found biological population declines ubiquitous, a recent…
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Hiking the CDT: Seven native trout, 3,100 miles, five months
Editor’s Note: The Strawbridge family from Lakeland, Fla., is hiking the length of the Continental Divide Trail – all 3,100 miles of it – from Canada to Mexico. Henry Strawbridge, 14, will be providing updates of their journey to Trout Unlimited as they pass through the historic range of seven native trout species. You can track the…
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Trout Unlimited’s Climate Change Roadmap
By Brian Wagner Considering the existential threat to mankind imposed by the climate crisis, I am sometimes a bit sheepish discussing climate change in terms of the impacts to our salmonids. But, we are Trout Unlimited and our mission is to protect our fishy friends we occasionally like to say hello to on the end…
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Trout Unlimited activates ‘tree army’ in Michigan
By Jamie Vaughan With planting bags slung over their shoulders, gloves and a specialized tree planting tool called a "hoedad" in hand, the Rogue River Tree Army descended toward the river. In just three weeks, 16,000 newly planted trees took root in their new home, providing immediate benefits to the Rogue River watershed that will only increase with time. This large-scale tree planting initiative was conceived by Trout Unlimited in 2017 and came to fruition this spring thanks…
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Hard work on Lahontan cutthroat trout threatened by hybridization
By Jason Barnes As one of only two lakes in the world to support a relict self-sustaining and naturally reproducing population of Lahontan cutthroat trout, a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, Independence Lake is irreplaceable. We are no stranger to adverse conditions at the high elevation lake near Truckee, Calif., but even the…
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