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Choosing the right float for the whole family
The group text messages and emails have already started surfacing. Maybe it will become the topic of conversation in the corner at the annual holiday party. Your shiny new copy of the 2022 Trout Unlimited calendar has probably been opened a thousand times to start checking out the perfect dates. Can you guess what conversations…
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Are there “good” dams and “bad” dams?
We just released an issue of TROUT magazine that focuses most of its 100 pages on the need to remove four dams from the Lower Snake River. That was an easy call for me as editor because I think removal of the Lower Snake dams, thus giving a huge percentage of steelhead and salmon in the…
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An Alaska Flyfisher’s Odyssey
TU life member pens stories of Alaska with a big gift back to conservation Dan Hoffman knows fishing and knows Alaska. Put the two together, and Hoffman has a lifetime of stories that take him from Katmai National Park in Bristol Bay, to the Kenai Peninsula, and north in to the Interior. He’s compiled some…
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Umpqua Feather Merchants Signature Tyer Series, Season 3
Winter is slowly approaching and time at the vise will soon be more readily available. Why not learn from some of the pros while you're at it this winter? Umpqua Feather Merchants is back with season three of the popular live tying sessions. Join them at the desk of some of the most innovative fly…
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Get out and enjoy our national wildlife refuges
This lesser-known public land system is a hidden gem of conservation work and hunting and fishing access
Trumpeter swans in flight at Lower Red Rock Lake in Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in Montana. Erin Clark/USFWS Chances are you are familiar with national parks, Bureau of Land Management lands, and national forests, but have you ever heard of, or been to, a wildlife refuge? If you answered no, you are not alone. This lesser-known public land system is…
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Forest Service moves to reinstate roadless protections for Tongass National Forest
The U.S. Forest Service has proposed restoring protections for more than nine million acres of roadless areas in the Tongass National Forest, reinstating the 2001 roadless rule after it was hastily repealed late last year against the wishes of 96 percent of all public comments, Southeast Alaska Tribal governments, and local anglers, hunters and outdoor…
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TU’s Finnerty to Congress: protect SW Oregon salmon and steelhead strongholds
On November 9, Dean Finnerty became the latest Trout Unlimited representative to testify before Congress, when he appeared before the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands in support of the Southwestern Oregon Watersheds and Salmon Protection Act. Few are more qualified to tout the importance of southwestern Oregon streams for salmon and steelhead than…
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