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New report outlines blueprint for conservation and energy development
Trout Unlimited, as part of its Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development partnership, is proud to announce the release of “Lessons Learned: A Blueprint for Securing our Energy Future While Preserving America’s Sporting Heritage”. The report includes examples of places where energy production has been well planned with the interest of sustaining fish and wildlife in…
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TU attends Sportsmen’s Summit with Secretary Zinke
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke address attendees at the Sportsmen Access Ramp-Up Summit in Washington, D.C. Courtesy @SecretaryZinke on Twitter By Keith Curley Trout Unlimited recently accepted an invitation from the Department of Interior and attended the Sportsmen Access Ramp-Up Summit in Washington, D.C. While the title of the meeting emphasized access, Greg Sheehan—the…
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Is your stream at risk?
Go to the map Trout Unlimited released an interactive map today that illustrates the importance of intermittent and ephemeral streams - the small tributaries and headwaters that sometimes run dry throughout the year. The map is aimed at helping citizens understand the risk of repealing the 2015 Clean Water Rule which clarified protections for intermittent…
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Native: Elk River cutthroats
It hadn't done much but rain in the Rockies straddling the border of Montana and British Columbia last July, and the weather had put traditional fly hatches off a bit. Instead of pale-morning duns and stoneflies bursting from the snow-chilled waters of the Elk River near the town of Fernie, huge green drakes were popping…
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Secret spots … to share, or not to share?
A screen capture shows the kind of trophy brook trout caught by Mike Borger in a secret lake in Algonquin Provincial Park, a wild landscape bigger than the state of Delaware. I may be on the wrong side of this particular issue, but I loathe the notion of guarding fishing secrets so closely that it…
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Seeing red on Clean Water Rule
Find out if your stream is at risk By Randy Scholfield Take a look at this map—the red lines show so-called “intermittent and ephemeral ” streams, the small seasonal streams that typically don’t flow year round. All of this red is what’s at stake in the EPA’s current review of the Clean Water Rule. Our…
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Click and pawl vs. disc drag
There are two schools of thought when it comes to trout anglers and fly reels: Those who believe that a fly reel for trout fishing is nothing more than a spool to collect line, and those who think a little braking power to be found through disc drag technologies is key to fighting fish effectively.…
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