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How the team behind “Mending the Line” film got the fishing right
Hollywood gets a lot of things right. When it gets things wrong, it’s often because writers (and directors and actors) are forced to try to mimic something they know little about but that avid practitioners are adept at. Consider fishing and hunting, which aren’t exactly atop the list of most-practiced hobbies of the La-La Land…
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TU Goes to The Hill for Abandoned Mine Cleanup
Trout Unlimited CEO Chris Wood testifies in favor of community reclamation legislation to facilitate abandoned mine cleanup. This week, Trout Unlimited President and CEO Chris Wood testified in favor of the proposed Community Reclamation Partnerships Act to facilitate cleanup of abandoned mines by community reclaimers, also known as “Good Samaritans,” in the Mining and Natural…
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Partners Building Fire Resilience with the Forest Service in Washington
USFS Chief Moore gets a firsthand look at TU restoration work in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. The eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains in North Central Washington are one of the epicenters for catastrophic fire risk in the Western United States. Climate change, tree disease and over a century of forest mismanagement are to blame.…
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NYC Trout in the Classroom: Student perspective
Over this past school year, Brooklyn Technical High School juniors and seniors had a special opportunity to engage with their environment in a unique manner. Dr. Margarita introduced Trout in the Classroom (TIC), a Trout Unlimited program that uses the life cycle and habits of trout to teach the importance of cold, clean water to…
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Cooling Trout Rivers in a Warming Climate
Dam removals offer hope for coldwater trout in the face of climate change. For Bryan Burroughs, dam removals are the key to trout habitat restoration in the face of climate change. They have the potential to cool long stretches of river even more than climate change is expected to warm them over the coming decades. …
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How to bring a river back from the dead
One chapter’s handiwork (literally) has salter brook trout returning to a famous creek The Quashnet is a five-mile prayer of a river that flows into Waquoit Bay in Cape Cod, Mass. Fishing the river is like walking in a verdant tunnel, as wide as a fly rod is long in many sections. Willows and other…
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Q&A with new NLC leadership
We recently caught up with Rich Thomas and Sharon Sweeney Fee, who just took over two important leadership positions on Trout Unlimited’s National Leadership Council (NLC). Consisting of one elected representative from each of TU’s 36 state councils, the NLC is the volunteer body that serves as the liaison between volunteers and staff. Thomas moves…