Photo: The Missoulian Yesterday was a tough day in Montana. Not only did a train pulling 30 cars of coal derail and overturn on the banks of the Clark Fork River, but the mining company seeking permission to dig for heavy metals in the headwaters of the Smith River received preliminary approval and can move
Trout Unlimited’s Gary Berti (center) accepts the U.S. Forest Service Volunteer & Services regional award from Clyde Thompson (left), Monongahela National Forest supervisor, and Mike Owen, the forest’s Watershed Program manager. The Forest Service recently announced that TU had been chosen from among regional honorees as the national award winner. Trout Unlimited’s Eastern Home Rivers
A screen capture shows the kind of trophy brook trout caught by Mike Borger in a secret lake in Algonquin Provincial Park, a wild landscape bigger than the state of Delaware. I may be on the wrong side of this particular issue, but I loathe the notion of guarding fishing secrets so closely that it
Find out if your stream is at risk By Randy Scholfield Take a look at this map—the red lines show so-called “intermittent and ephemeral ” streams, the small seasonal streams that typically don’t flow year round. All of this red is what’s at stake in the EPA’s current review of the Clean Water Rule. Our
By Mark Taylor First came the stench. A putrid, heavy, disgusting aroma. Dead fish on a hot summer day. There is nothing quite like it. On rivers with heavy salmon runs it’s expected, coming after the fish complete their one-time spawning run, in death providing nutrients to ecosystems that will support their soon-to-hatch fry. But
On July 26th, 2017, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee advanced S.1514, the Hunting Heritage and Environmental Legacy Preservation for Wildlife Act (HELP Wildlife Act). Trout Unlimited supports this bill, which reauthorizes a number of useful conservation programs until 2023. The reauthorized programs that Trout Unlimited is particularly supportive of include: North Americans Wetlands
By Mark Taylor The local river is a trout river. Sort of. From October through May the state dumps thousands of hatchery-reared rainbows and brookies into it. By summer those fish are long gone, caught and creeled by locals who are both dedicated and skilled. Then the river is back to what nature intended, which
