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Tailwaters in a warming world
The White River in Arkansas is an excellent trout fishery, but only because it's trout section flows out of the bottom of a dam, creating a constant supply of cold water. By Jared Carpenter It’s safe to say that most TU members fish in the tailwaters below dams at least occasionally. Essentially, tailwaters are the…
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Howland Dam bypass flowing, improving fish passage Maine’s Penobscot system
Water began flowing through the Howland Dam bypass on Sept. 28 The massive, ambitious Penobscot River restoration effort reached another important milestone on Sept. 28, as the first trickles of the Piscataquis River were diverted into the new Howland Dam bypass. Initial testing of the system is continuing, with the ultimate goal to ensure the…
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Finding trout as Salmon Kill restoration gets under way
Restoration construction efforts on this section of the Salmon Kill were almost complete when this picture was taken. Trout stream restoration projects can make a big immediate visual impact, but the real payoff comes over time. Still, it was a nice surprise when crews doing some stream sampling work at a restoration site on Connecticut's…
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New culvert on Pa.'s Little Lyman Run opens up nearly 8 stream miles
By Amy Wolfe In terms of fish passage, a certain culvert on Pennsylvania’s Little Lyman Run in Potter County was about a bad as it gets. Only 1.9 percent of predicted flows would allow adult brook trout to make it through the culvert on the small tributary to Cross Fork Creek, according to…
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New Brand Guidelines Are Here
Written by Joel Johnson So far we have trained over seventy five volunteer leaders at TU on the new TU brand guidelines. In August and September through two webinar workshops, volunteers received detailed instruction on how to apply the new brand assets - namely the new national TU logo, and guidance on incorporating the new…
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Brookies to benefit from Nissitissit dam removal
By Robert Shane When we think of dams, especially dam removals, we think BIG; we think the Elwha and the Penobscot and the Snake. We imagine monstrosities of concrete and steel blocking important trout and salmon spawning waters. This plight, however, is not secular to big dams. In the state of Massachusetts there are over…
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Adios, San Clemente Dam
By Tim Frahm When steelhead and tractors occupy the same piece of stream, tractors typically win… and steelhead don’t. Sometimes, however, we need to stand up and cheer when we find big excavators, dirt trucks and earth-movers driving up and down in a riverbed. Such a time is now for the Carmel River, one of…