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Drought rider to water bill bad for fish and anglers
It's no secret that the American legislative process has some disagreeable aspects. Some pieces of law get passed not because they pass the smell test but because they get packaged with other stuff that has to be enacted. This week the House of Representatives passed such a bill--a measure that could do great harm to…
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Team effort goes into Thompson Run restoration in Pa.
A fisherman's concern about a stream was the impetus for a recently completed project on a small creek in State College, Pa. In November 2015, John Ford contacted Trout Unlimited stream habitat coordinator Phil Thomas and The Delta Program with the State College Area School District about an erosion and sedimentation problem (below) he had…
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Ranching with cutthroat trout—an exercise in partnership
Trout Unlimited worked with the Ramsay family to restore an important creek for both native cutthroat trout and farmlands in southwestern Wyoming. Jackson Ramsay photo. By Jackson Ramsay In August of 2000, a wildfire ripped through the rugged country of southwest Wyoming. At the time it was the largest fire burning in the United States.…
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Mill Creek cutthroat restoration project complete
Nearly 9,000 native Bonneville cutthroat trout, the state fish, were recently released in Mill Creek Canyon east of Salt Lake City. Mill Creek is now an entirely native fish system with Bonneville cutthroat, mountain suckers and longnosed dace all reintroduced after nonnative fish were removed. Brian Anderson photo. By Brian Anderson After a century absence,…
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A day of celebration for the Roan Plateau
Corey Fisher casts in the grottos of Parachute Creek atop the Roan Plateau in 2009. You haven't lived dangerously until you've subjected a rental car to the JQS Road. OK, sure. That might be a bit of an overstatement. But the sketchy, rocky, always-washes-out-when-it-rains, track up the east side of Colorado's Roan Plateau is easily…
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Cool streams in a warm future: Moving from talk to action
Yellowstone cutthroat trout are the prime beneificiaries of climate change adaptation work done on Idaho's Crow Creek Photo by Chris Hunt. By Dr. Jack Williams An old friend from back in our government days, Wayne Elmore, frequently noted that “when it’s all said and done, there will likely be more said than done.” How true.…
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Alaska Holiday High School fly tying material drive
The egg sucking leech, a staple for every Alaskan's fly box - Photo: Jenny Weis This holiday season give the gift of learning, opportunity and fly fishing to Alaska High School Students! For the past 8 years Tim Lussow, a biology teacher at Colony High School, has helped expose the world of fly fishing to…