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College anglers form company to clean up trash
Hunter Klobucar holds up a "trophy" piece of trash collected during a fishing trip in Pennsylvania. Courtesy of Hunter Klobucar, Founders were inspired to create 'Clean Earth Bag' after witnessing litter issues on too many fishing trips By Cliff Watson What started with the simple act of picking up a flyer at a fishing show evolved into…
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Hiking the CDT: Cirque de Towers, trout and the desert
Editor’s Note: The Strawbridge family from Lakeland, Fla., is hiking the length of the Continental Divide Trail – all 3,100 miles of it – from Canada to Mexico. Henry Strawbridge, 14, will be providing updates of their journey to Trout Unlimited as they pass through the historic range of seven native trout species. You can track the…
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Mayflies making a difference
Helping foster kids find a home on the water
My friend, Billy, visited Middlebury College in Vermont, when we were seniors at St. Peters in Jersey City. I will never forget his reaction when he returned. “Cows! Chris, there are cows. Cows everywhere!” For a 17-year-old kid from North Bergen, N.J., cows were as foreign as trout are familiar to a fly-angler. Billy ended…
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Good outcomes from field season
By Jason Willis It seemed like a good time to shed light on some positives from the 2019 field season as we deal with the trying times currently enveloping our country. Here is a brief history, summary and outcome of the successful Monarch Pass Gravel Mine project. The U.S. Forest Service’s Salida Ranger District released…
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Help Headwaters match $10,000 to fund the future of conservation
Student volunteers in the Rogue River Home Waters Initiative youth outreach program. This holiday season, we’ve been thinking a lot about what we are thankful for over here at the Headwaters Youth Program: Thankful for our colleagues at TU that fight so hard to keep our waterways healthy and accessible; Thankful for our teen leaders that bring their…
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5 Rivers Odyssey Reflection: Dan Eiden
The TU Costa 5 Rivers Odyssey was an experience like no other. This month-long journey across the Pacific Northwest challenged my perspectives and exposed me to issues that I could never have envisioned, let alone take on first-hand. Each day on the Odyssey was full of new experiences, whether it was conducting a fish salvage on a small mountain stream or chasing steelhead…
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5 Rivers Odyssey: Dan Eiden
My life can be separated into two distinct parts: Life before I picked up a fly rod, and life after it. I began my fly fishing journey in the rolling hills of western Wisconsin, the place where I call home. It was the beginning of January and my hands were freezing cold; every moment I…