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Voices from the River: Counting coho in Russian River floodplains
By Charlie Schneider Note: California’s Russian River is famous among anglers for its steelhead fishery, but in recent years this watershed has been the focus of an intensive effort to recover coho salmon, now one of the rarest native fishes in California. TU grassroots and programs such as the Coastal Streamflow Stewardship Project have been…
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Hokendauqua TU Fly Tying Class Welcomes Veterans!
Trout Unlimited Veterans Partnership Vets * Welcome (This program replaces PHWFF) Registration for TU-VSP Veterans and Service members: tools, vises &all materials will be supplied without cost. Classes begin on the first Saturday in January and run for eight consecutive Saturdays. Class starts at 9:00 AM. and ends at 12 noon. The last class is…
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TU launches 2018 Gift Guide
Mike Sepelak fishes the Redington Butter Stick on a remote trout stream in Idaho. Over the course of the last several months, TU staffers and volunteers have taken new fly-fishing and outdoors products into the fiel d to test them against the fish and the elements that make our craft so special. Now, after having…
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Fisher Guiding offers great gifts and more
It's holiday gift time, TUers. Giving gifts is fun, but it can get a little tricky picking something just right. We’ve heard from folks who want to set up a fishing trip for an angler as a gift, but they’re not completely sure of what date or what trip type will work, which is why…
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Voices from the River: When the earth moves
Damage from the Nov. 30, 7.0 magnitude earthquake on the highway exit ramp nearest to the Trout Unlimited office in Anchorage. By Jenny Weis I found myself still tip-toeing around my house Saturday morning as I cleaned broken glass and straightened bookshelves, over 24 hours after the 7.0 earthquake that rattled Anchorage last Friday. I…
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TU Enters New Partnership in Education
by Nick Halle It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon (yes, I know that's not the typical idiom) to grasp that the future of conservation will depend heavily on the youth of today. Trout Unlimited’s youth education staff have been educating young people across the country on conservation and the outdoors in the hopes of instilling…
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Voices from the River: A freezer full of rats
By Shauna Stephenson Before Lolo there was Olly the redtail hawk. And before Olly, FedEx brought me a box of rats, frozen, labeled and neatly arranged in Ziplock baggies, ready to be stacked alongside the Otter Pops and frozen peas. “If you’re going to be a falconer, you’re going to have to be ok with…
