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Hope for New Jersey’s trout in a warmer world
Scientists and anglers are sleuthing for groundwater sources that may help Garden State trout weather climate change Before joining the Trout Unlimited staff, Keith Fritschie spent four Octobers swimming with giant wild brook trout in northern New Hampshire’s Dead Diamond River. The work was part of an Embrace-a-Stream collaboration between New Hampshire Fish and Game,…
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Future of the Yellowstone
Winding streams, abundant wildlife, and year-round beauty. The Yellowstone River is as iconic and awe inspiring as it gets. Flowing 660 miles from its origin in Yellowstone National Park to its confluence with the Missouri River, the Yellowstone rises and falls, untamed by any dam. The river is the very essence of wildness, yet it…
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Caring for and recovering priority waters
Here lies the promise of our plans to develop a shared agenda of priority waters.
The secret sauce of Trout Unlimited is the fact that we enjoy a grassroots network of volunteers with deep roots in their communities and incredible passion for the waters they live, love and fish. Their knowledge, energy and passion are strengthened by hundreds of professional TU staff—biologists, restoration practitioners, water lawyers, organizers, and scientists. These staff are…
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Love in the time of climate change
For one angler, a wounded California is better than no California at all It was a classic Yuba day with Joe and the Butler brothers—a 105-degree scorcher with the river inviting swimming as much as fishing. As typical as it seemed, the river was in many ways new to me. It had been two years…
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Congress needs to act on climate change to protect fishing, outdoor economy
As I drove down to the river access, I couldn’t help but notice the expanse of sun-bleached stones signifying lower-than-usual flows.
My dog, Cooper, gave me a plaintive stare as I loaded up the truck on a chilly May morning, the dawn light just beginning to break over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Normally my German shorthaired pointer is a fixture on all my fishing trips, but on that day I was planning to wade the…
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When the monsoons finally come
My son was invited on a boating trip to celebrate a pal’s birthday. The original plan featured a lake about an hour away, but since that one had dried up, they drove three hours farther to a reservoir near the Texas border. It’s flat out there on the plains, but back here in Santa Fe,…
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Take photos of the scenery, not the fish while on the boat
What I’m about to say might bother some people and as a professional photographer for over 20 years I can’t believe I’m even thinking about saying it. It’s time to stop taking photos of our fish while in the boat. We’ve all seen and read the news of temporary restrictions on rivers like the Upper…