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TU in Action: Better dam sites in Colorado; TIC students releasing trout; saving Sammamish kokanee, and more
A settlement that could move a dam to a better location than beneath the Maroon Bells might be reached in Colorado. Wikipedia photo. Editor's note: Every day, all across America, TU volunteers are working in their local watersheds to improve habitat, water quality and angler opportunity. We're starting a new weekly feature here on the…
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Vote for the best amateur fly fishing film
RIO products is sponsoring its annual Amateur Fly Fishing Film Awards to encourage novice filmmakers to document fishing adventures through video, and voting is now live for the general public. The company is hosting several amateur fly fishing films on its website, all of which are free to view. There are two categories in which…
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Montana ballot initiative a no-brainer
The mess Montana taxpayers get to pay to clean up. If you pay taxes and drink water, voting for I-186 on the November ballot in Montana should be a no-brainer. But more than that, if you have a child or a grandchild or just plain want to make sure that future generations of Montanans don’t…
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Tarpon, of course
Last week, TU's Kirk Deeter posted a simple photograph (above), and asked you tell us what he was fishing for in this water. The answer is tarpon. And the winner of the TU-embossed HydraPak is Sam Lawson, who was one of many who answered "baby tarpon," but the only one lucky enough to have his…
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#TUmuchfun at the 2018 Western Regional In Keystone!
Nothing quite compares to a TU Regional Rendezvous! The Western Regional in Keystone, Colorado was no exception with a lively schedule of relevant and engaging sessions and a robust amount of #TUmuchfun in
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Mad Dog Chapter tackles riparian planting at former dam site in Vermont
By Eliza Perreault Laughter on a cool, rainy day in northern Vermont is not common, but when you have a group of dedicated volunteers ready to dig in and plant more than 2,000 trees, shrubs and willow stakes at the former East Burke dam site, the laughter and camaraderie spills over. The site, on the…
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The Lodge at Green Cove
Tellico. It’s kind of a mysterious word. The Cherokee wrote it “Talikwa” and used it in the names of several of their towns in the Great Smoky Mountains. They say the actual meaning of the word was lost in their language. It’s possible that it’s origin isn’t Cherokee at all, but Muskogee. The Muskogee say…
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