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Native Odyssey: Trout among fire
Editor's Note: Five students from the TU Costa 5 Rivers Outreach Program have embarked on a once-in a-lifetime journey in pursuit of 16 native trout species, all on public lands. With support from the U.S. Forest Service, Costa Sunglasses, Simms Fishing Products, Fishpond and Post Fly Box, these students will tell the stories of our…
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Trout Tips: Lessons from the Firehole
Editor's note: For great fishing tips and tricks from TU staffers and volunteers all over America, you can buy TU's new book, "Trout Tips" online and have it shipped overnight. I spent an afternoon last week on the Firehole River in Yellowstone National Park. It's one of the West's iconic rivers, and it's also one…
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The Fly Crate – letter from a fan
Father’s Day is one of my favorite holidays. It’s a day where I get to say thanks to my dad, get handmade gifts from my kids, and go fishing. I’m not the best gift giver, but last year I surprised my dad with a special trout fly assortment. He loves to go out fly fishing…
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JHTU Volunteers Needed – June 19 – 21st!
We are looking for a few good volunteers to help us and our partners with the Flat Creek project on the National Elk Refuge - next Wednesday, June 21st from 1 to 5 pm. Volunteers will help plant willow poles on the Flat Creek project reach within a fenced exclosure that is protected from browsing…
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Jackson Adopt-a-Trout Program Engages 200 Middle School Students in Science and Conservation
Tuesday, June 13th, 2017 JACKSON ADOPT-A-TROUT PROGRAM ENGAGES 200 MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION JACKSON, Wyoming – Trout Unlimited (TU), the Jackson Hole Trout Unlimited chapter (JHTU), and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) announced today the successful conclusion of the 2016-2017 school year Adopt-a-Trout Program with a field day at the…
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Long effort leads to mine protections in Maine
By Jeff Reardon Last week, Maine’s Legislature overrode a veto by Governor Paul Lepage with an overwhelming bipartisan vote—35-0 in the Republican-controlled Senate; 122-21 in the Democratically-controlled House—to finally pass a bill that gives Maine protective rules for metallic mineral mining. That decision ended more than five years of work by Trout Unlimited and other…
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Video spotlight: Fish of a Lifetime
Extreme angling is all the rage these days—films of anglers chasing strange fish in far-flung places grace the internet with regularity. But the film below chronicles perhaps the craziest angling I've ever seen. Aussie surf casters chasing cobia in the rocky surf show that, indeed, the boys Down Under are serious about their fishing. Video…