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More changes for monuments?
Interior Secretary Zinke recommends additional changes for national monuments Report outlines actions that would have far-reaching consequences for hunters and anglers WASHINGTON D.C. — In a final report released to the public today, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke recommended to President Trump that additional national monuments - those public lands managed to protect objects…
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Holiday ideas from TU’s Alaska Program
Pride of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon. By: Nelli Williams In the holiday spirit? Looking for ways to support TU’s work in Alaska while knocking a few things off your holiday to do list? Here are a few ideas from the TU Alaska Team. Bristol Bay wild salmon - serve at a holiday party or send…
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Work continues on Connecticut’s Salmon Creek
By Tracy Brown It was another productive year for restoration and outreach work on Connecticut's Salmon Creek. Work on Salmon Creek continued through the spring and summer with activities kicking off in late April with the Salmon Creek Watershed Festival. Located in Salisbury, Conn., Salmon Creek — also known as the Salmon Kill — has…
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National monuments in the crosshairs
Native redband trout from upper Jenny Creek, Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, Oregon. This monument, and others with quality sporting opportunities, are targeted for downsizing or reduction in resource protections by the Trump administration. Photo: Kaden Swart Theodore Roosevelt might be resting a little uneasily in his grave. Roosevelt, America’s greatest sportsman-conservationist, used his presidency to promote…
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Cuts for Utah Monuments
Trump order cuts protection for two million acres of national monuments Mounting threats to public lands leave sportsmen and women asking 'what's next?' Dec. 4, 2017 (Salt Lake City, Utah) – President Trump announced today that he intends to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by nearly two million acres, putting sportsmen and…
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Short casts: Teaching women to fly fish; grayling in the Arctic Refuge; gift guides galore, and more
Photo courtesy of the Portland Press Herald Where would TU be without volunteers like Evelyn King? Good question. A board member of TU's Sebago (Maine) chapter, King founded Women Fly Fishers of Maine, and began introducing women to the sport, helping them with everything from casting to fly selection. She's a fly fishing evangelist for…
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Pebble Mine footprint – PR changes nothing
Cartoon by Michael O'Meara The past several months the Pebble Partnership, who aims to develop the highly controversial and widely opposed Pebble Mine in Bristol, Bay Alaska, has been touting their new mine plans to Alaskans in hopes of winning them over with new "smaller " and "safer" design claims. Alaskans see through the rhetoric…
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