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Tie like a chef
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Forest Service honors TU’s Darek Staab with Rise to the Future award
Darek Staab (far right) with volunteers, Whychus Creek project, Oregon. Darek Staab, Project Manager for Trout Unlimited’s Upper Deschutes Restoration Program, was recently honored by the U.S. Forest Service with a “Rise to the Future” award in the Partnerships category. The regional Forest Service award recognizes “outstanding contributions towards fisheries and water resource conservation in…
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Recovering salmon and steelhead in the Columbia Basin
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives will take up a bill, H.R. 3144, which would undercut the prospects for salmon and steelhead recovery in the Columbia River basin in the Pacific Northwest. HR 3144 offers a regressive response to the challenge of keeping the Columbia's legendary salmon and steelhead runs viable while ensuring reliable and…
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Gear test: Simms Solar-Flex Armor
When I fish, I do not trust sunscreen alone. My days of wearing a T-shirt and shorts, and slapping on a bit of SPF-15 (if I remember) are over. Doesn’t matter if I’m walk-wading for trout, or on a flats skiff, I’m now always in some sort of sun shirt designed specifically to protect me…
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TU volunteers, staffers tout Delaware efforts on Capitol Hill
New Jersey TU staffer Cole Baldino and Musconetcong Watershed Association volunteer Bill Leavens. By David Kinney Last week, Trout Unlimited restoration staff and volunteers from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York visited their congressional offices in Washington D.C. to showcase efforts to restore wild trout habitat in the Delaware River Basin. In part, it was…
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Reps. DeFazio and Huffman, champions for SW Oregon rivers
U.S. Reps. Peter DeFazio (Oregon) and Jared Huffman (California) today sent a letter to the House Committee on Natural Resources urging the committee to take immediate action to schedule a hearing for H.R. 310, The Southwestern Oregon Watershed and Salmon Protection Act. This bill would permanently protect salmon and steelhead strongholds on the southern Oregon…
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Salmon & Steelhead habitat in Washington head toward new safeguards
Pictured: Washington's Yakima River. Photo by J Brew By: Dean Finnerty Suction dredge mining has spelled trouble for salmon and steelhead habitat in Washington state. Recently, Trout Unlimited unearthed documents that suggest that motorized suction dredge mining has been allowed as an accident for the last 20 years. As a result of this oversight, some…
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