Trout Magazine

  • Restoration

    Watch: “Horses and Highwater: Restoring Tincup Creek”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhSC07aZ0_s&feature=youtu.be Horses and Highwater perfectly depicts the Western way of life bringing together the important tenets of community, collaboration and conservation. Trout Unlimited’s ongoing restoration efforts at Tincup Creek exemplify all these traits as we work closely with Caribou-Targhee National Forest—by hand, foot, hoof and helicopter—to bring restoration projects to life in the Salt River…

  • Restoration

    Faces of Restoration: Jessica Lockwood

    Sitting atop the Colorado River Basin in southwest Wyoming, the Green River boasts incredible fisheries, red desert buttes, Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge and Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area. This basin stretches across the Cowboy State from the Wind River Mountain Range to the north to the Uinta Mountains to the south and the Sierra Madre…

  • Headwaters

    A little friendly competition for a cause

    Across the country, Trout Unlimited Costa 5 Rivers college clubs are stepping up and squaring off for a powerful purpose. Through Mother’s Day (May 11, 10:00 MST), these student-led clubs are taking part in the Mother’s Day Giving Challenge, a peer-to-peer fundraising competition to benefit Casting for Recovery (CfR), a nonprofit that provides healing fly…

  • Advocacy

    New Mexico Legislature 2025: A banner year for trout

    It’s not every year that a state can protect and restore its natural resources or reimagine how they are managed. In its 2025 session, New Mexico state legislators had three such opportunities and admirably met the moment. In no small part due to the efforts of Trout Unlimited, the legislature prioritized modern wildlife management, its…

  • Restoration

    Faces of Restoration: Gian Dodici

    “Taking a dam out and seeing a free-flowing river again,” he reflects. “I’ve got the best job in the world.”

    Like many young kids, Gian Dodici spent his early years fully immersed in the underwater universe of Jacque Cousteau and found world travel at his fingertips by turning the pages of National Geographic. While traveling throughout his childhood, Gian spent time turning over creek rocks looking for crayfish to flipping desert stones searching for scorpions.…