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Creating hope again, again, and again
Remembering a stalwart of the Forest Service
Remembering a stalwart of the Forest Service If we are honest, when we are asked to take hard stands, most of us think, “What will this mean for me or my career?” Or “How or what will people think about me?” Not Jim Furnish, a stalwart of the Forest Service who passed away this week.…
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Bully for the Forest
Last week, the Forest Service proposed a new policy that is protective of old growth forests on our publicly owned 191 million acres of national forests. This is welcome news as old growth forests are important for their role in storing carbon and providing healthy habitat for fish and wildlife (among many other things). Importantly,…
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Partners Building Fire Resilience with the Forest Service in Washington
USFS Chief Moore gets a firsthand look at TU restoration work in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. The eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains in North Central Washington are one of the epicenters for catastrophic fire risk in the Western United States. Climate change, tree disease and over a century of forest mismanagement are to blame.…
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The best hope for recovering trout and salmon? You.
Thanks to dedicated volunteers, loyal partners, and strong allies, we racked up wins in 2022 Seventeen years ago, when Brian Johnson was hired at TU in California, his boss told him that a coalition working on the Klamath River was advocating for removal of all four dams on the river. The other day, Brian recounted…
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Trout Unlimited, Forest Service launch $40 million initiative
New chapter in a longstanding partnership to recover and reconnect trout waters on public lands A century ago, Gifford Pinchot wrote: “The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves, in a sense, responsible for that future.” As the nation’s first head of the U.S. Forest Service after its…
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Roads to recovery in Wisconsin’s North Country
Where roads intersect with chilly, clean trout water, you'll find TU's Chris Collier at work As a kid growing up in Ohio, Chris Collier looked forward to vacations of fishing, camping and boating in the wilds of Northern Michigan. These days, he’s creating new memories as a relatively recent transplant to the region. “Northern Wisconsin…
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TU’s Chris Wood tells Congress that road and trail funding is vital for trout and salmon into the future
When TU’s CEO and President Chris Wood testified Tuesday before the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, it marked the third time this year someone from TU has been invited to give testimony to Congress. Wood’s testimony yesterday focused on a subject that has become increasingly important in trout and salmon conservation:…
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