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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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Conquering the blood knot
The blood knot was one of the hardest knots for me to master on the water, and the fact that it is virtually necessary makes it an important knot to get your head around. I have big fingers, so inticate work with monofilament lines and tippets is tricky enough. The blood knot requires a bit…
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Habitat work on Crowningshield property withstands flash flood
By Erin Rodgers Trout Unlimited’s work this field season on the Crowningshield property in Heath, Mass., was put to the test this fall when a torrential rainstorm dumped 5 inches of water on the region. Two bank-stabilizing wood jams put in place to improve trout habitat withstood the deluge and did exactly what they were…
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