FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 12, 2017 Contact: Alannah Hurley, United Tribes of Bristol Bay (907) 843-1633 or Nelli Williams, Trout Unlimited (907) 230-7121 Photos and video from the hearings: available upon request ALASKANS URGE EPA OFFICIALS TO MAINTAIN BRISTOL BAY PROTECTIONS An overwhelming majority who attended hearings in Dillingham and Iliamna requested proposed 2014 protections
TU responds to attack on Antiquities Act
Trout Unlimited sent the following letter to the House Natural Resources Committee in response to the markup of the National Monument Creation and Protection Act, H.R. 3990, a bill which would endanger the future of the Antiquities Act:
Bill threatens National Monuments and Antiquities Act
The House Natural Resources Committee advanced a bill this week that would alter the very foundation of the Antiquities Act, a tool that has been in use for more than 100 years to protect important cultural and natural resources on public lands. The National Monument Creation and Protection Act, H.R. 3990, was introduced late last
TU opposes H.R.3990 re: National Monuments
171011_TU_oppose_H.R.3990_markup.pdf October 11, 2017 Re: Please Oppose H.R. 3990, the National Monument and Protection Act Dear Chairman Bishop, Ranking Member Grijalva, and members of the Committee: On behalf of behalf of Trout Unlimited and its nearly 300,000 members and supporters nationwide, I am writing to urge you to oppose H.R. 3990, the National Monument and
House committee advances bill that would gut Antiquities Act
The House Natural Resources Committee voted 23-17 today to advance a bill today which would endanger the future of the Antiquities Act and public lands conserved as National Monuments. The Act was signed into law in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt. Since then it has been a bipartisan tool – used by 16 presidents, half
Video spotlight: Our water
There has been quite a bit of video and blog content lately from the “hog farms” of Appalachia—private stretches of carefully managed water planted with ginormous trout that literally turn heads and make one wonder if that’s what trout fishing was really like along the Eastern Seaboard before it was completely and totally colonized. (Hint:
Growing up with fresh water means never growing out of it
By Mandy Nix I’ve always been a child of water. A native to the North Carolina Piedmont, I spent the stickiest of summers at Kerr Lake (pronounced “Car”), the 50,000-acre reservoir that stretches across the line between the Old Dominion and my own Tar Heel State. Some mornings I’d greet the water as a freshwater