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TU Business Spotlight: Four Rivers Fishing Company
Twin Bridges, Mont.– it’s not your average fishing town. And Four Rivers Fishing Company is not your average fly shop. It’s a 50-year-old institution that has been the headquarters for phenomenal trout fishing. This is an authentic Montana-style fly shop. That means that the people who work here fish here. They know and love the…
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Giving away the Tongass: A very bad idea
By: Alaska Program Staff Anyone who understands the value of public lands to hunters, anglers and other outdoor recreationists, and the fundamental role public lands play in many of our lives has cause for concern. Today we're writing to highlight just one of the threats to our public lands. Introducing the State National Forest…
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American Fisheries Society honors Burnett as conservationist of year
Paul Burnett, wearing the white hard hat, celebrates with Utah Division of Wildlife workers and volunteers after completing a 385-foot fish ladder through a concrete culvert to allow migratory cutthroat to return to headwaters they had been cut off from for more than 40 years. Brett Prettyman photo. By Brett Prettyman Trout Unlimited believes in…
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Restoring hope
I would generally advise not spending the day before you head to Canada for a week long fishing trip with your 13-year-old son, and other TU supporters, in another state. But that is what I did the week before last. If you worry for the future of our country, attend next year's Pennsylvania Rivers Conservation…
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2017 TU Teen Summit Headed to TU’s Birthplace!
by Franklin Tate, Headwaters Youth Program Director The sixth annual TU Teen Summit will be held on the TU “Holy Waters” of the Au Sable in June 2017, with twenty five teen leaders from around the country converging for four days of planning, learning, fishing, and fun. TU’s Headwaters youth staff and their merry band…
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Short casts: World-record bass, salmon across the pond, eating wild steelhead?
World-record spotted bass. Photo courtesy Everyday Adventures. If you want to catch the world's largest spotted bass, there's a reservoir in California you need to put on you list. The last two world-record bucketmouths came from New Bullards Bar Reservoir, with the last likely record weighing a whopping 11 pounds, 4 ounces. It broke the…
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TU’s Amy Wolfe to be honored by PennFuture and NWF
PennFuture and the National Wildlife Federation have selected Trout Unlimited’s Amy Wolfe for one of its Women in Conservation Awards. Specifically, Amy was selected as recipient of the “Woman of the Susquehanna River Watershed” award. Wolfe is one of five women who will be honored at the third annual event, to be held in La…
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