National Conservation, Sportsmen Groups Applaud Passage of Congressional Omnibus Spending Bill

For Immediate Release: May 4, 2017Contact: Michael Pauker, Michael.Pauker@berlinrosen.com, 646-335-0330 National Conservation, Sportsmen Groups Applaud Passage of Congressional Omnibus Spending BillThe bill contains more than $1.3 billion in vital funding and protections for Western water resources, including the Colorado River National conservation and sportsmen groups applauded passage through Congress of a new omnibus spending bill.

Skills: Fishing a hopper-dropper rig

My friend Rob Parkins runs the fishing and hunting section at the Jack Dennis Outdoor World on the square in Jackson, Wyo., and he’s a heck of an angler, as well as a RIO ambassador. Rob fishes the South Fork of the Snake often, as well as a number of waters here in eastern Idaho

Voices from the river: Frank’s trash

By Josh Duplechian Frank is a man with a knack for organization. His black Richard Wheatley fly boxes are neatly arranged in order of size, color and pattern. Frank pinches barbs on all his flies, most of which are either elk hair caddis or nymphs. He is not much of a big, chunky streamer fan.

Delivering data to decision makers: The Idaho Water Tool

By Sean McFall A recent collaboration between Trout Unlimited’s Idaho Water Project and Science Program will help ensure that projected impacts of climate change are incorporated into water resource work in Idaho. While there are many different threats to Idaho’s native fishes, the growing impacts of climate change are projected to be the greatest existential

What do we have to lose?

Native fish like the Gila trout pictured here can use support in political circles as much as in their rivers. Greg McReynolds/Trout Unlimited By Randy Scholfield Why don’t people care more about conservation and trout? And what can we do to change it? That was the pressing topic that kept coming up recently at the

Video spotlight: Listening to a river to help sturgeon

The Kootenai River starts and ends in Canada. It runs 485 miles with about a third of those miles dipping into Idaho and Montana. The Kootenai Tribe lives along the river and once relied on its sturgeon for food. Chuck Cathcart/Idaho Public Television Native white sturgeon in the Kootenai River need some help and researchers