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“LOCAL” – My Road to TU & Conservation
https://youtu.be/h1bjhKFPxWo Vote for NCC-TU’s film, “Local” in this year’s RIO Amateur Fly Fishing Film Awards contest, Click here to vote. Voting closes June 30 at midnight! Vote for NCCTU in the Rio Amateur Film Awards by Andrew Reichardt It’s funny to think about how I first got involved with Trout Unlimited. It wasn’t on a…
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New Zealand mud snails in Michigan trout streams
More than 180 non-native species have been introduced to the Great Lakes region, and many of them have been categorized as invasive, causing potential threat to native ecosystems and their populations. One relative newcomer is causing concerns about its potential risks to the region’s trout streams. The New Zealand mud snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) is an aquatic invasive that has appeared in Great Lakes streams only recently. …
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One step closer to restoring the Klamath River
Thursday, May 9, delivered more good news on the Klamath River restoration front. PacifiCorp, the utility that owns the four old hydropower dams slated for removal under the Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement (KHSA), announced it has entered into a site access agreement with Kiewit Infrastructure West Company “to allow the firm to conduct initial surveying…
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Oregon denies clean water certification for Jordan Cove LNG project
The Oregon coast near the proposed site of the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal. Photo: Gary Vonderohe By Kyle Smith Last week, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) denied the Clean Water Act Section 401 application for the Jordan Cove Liquid Natural Gas Project and the associated Pacific Connector Pipeline (collectively “Jordan Cove Project”).…
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Making the Blue River blue
[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_image src="https://www.tu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Illinois-Gulch_trib-of-blue02.jpg" _builder_version="3.22.6"][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_column type="2_5" _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_button button_url="https://standup.tu.org/good-samaritan-legislation/" url_new_window="on" button_text="Stand up for Good Sam" _builder_version="3.22.6"][/et_pb_button][et_pb_blurb title="Editor's note:" image="https://www.tu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JD4_1428.jpg" _builder_version="3.22.6"]Trout Unlimited staff have been working in the upper portion of Illinois Gulch since 2013 in partnership with other Federal, State, and local entities to address contamination from smaller abandoned hard-rock mine sites. …
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Sawyer joins TU to embrace streams nationwide
You could say it all started with Ralph Sawyer. After a legendary canoe racing career, Ralph began building paddles and oars. In 1967, he established Sawyer Paddles and Oars in the small town of Rogue River, Ore. He fell in love with whitewater rafting and began producing whitewater oars. Sawyer oars were soon found in…
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Voices from the River: Chasing char
Trout Unlimited’s efforts with the University of Maine and the Maine Department of Inland and Wildlife to develop eDNA sampling methods for Maine’s rare Arctic char continue. As described in a recent TU story, we’re focused in Maine on the handful of remaining populations of landlocked Arctic char, a glacial relict that’s been slowly losing populations over the last 120 years. Char exist…
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