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Reconnection Report Card — New York Priority Waters
As it is throughout trout country, the reconnection of fragmented or dammed rivers resides at the core of TU's strategy to maintain and improve the habitat of New York’s wild trout. With our small but mighty team, TU's staff team in New York completed seven culvert replacements in 2024 while employing a seasonal field crew…
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West Kill Brewing & Trout Unlimited present: Brookies for Brookies
Catskill craft beer conservation partnership announced
Photo by Ashley Bohan.Illustration of “Brookie” By Steven Weinberg.www.stevenweinbergstudio.com Catskill craft beer conservation partnership announced West Kill Brewing is proud to support the efforts of Trout Unlimited to conserve and protect eastern brook trout here in its home state of New York, and you can too. September 1st kicks off our “Brookies for Brookies” partnership…
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Trees of Time: Expanding the Legacy of Boquet River Restoration
In the early 1990s, TU volunteer Rich Redmen had the idea to use large Willow stakes to resurrect a deeply eroding stream bank on the Boquet River in Wadhams, N.Y. At the time, it was a common practice to load eroding banks with large rocks, often called rip rap. But rip rap could cost 15…
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Volunteers Help Girl Scout Troop Earn First STREAM Girls Badges in New York State
The TU STREAM Girls program expands traditional elements of STEM education to include Recreation and the Arts. Some of the first NY STREAM Girls from Troop 61011 in Honeoye Falls, NY (Dan Hucko photo) In July, thirteen girls from Girl Scout Troop 61011 in Honeoye Falls became the first New York state recipients of the…
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TU/Costa’s 5 Rivers Students Help Complete Willowemoc Restoration Project
Students from Trout Unlimited’s 5 Rivers Program, hailing from six different universities across New York and Connecticut camped, fished, and planted trees in the Catskills for the Fall 2023 Northeast Rendezvous. Participants were welcomed by New York State Council’s Director of Youth Programming, Lindsay Agness and TU’s Youth Education Program Director, Franklin Tate who…
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New York’s “Barrier Busters” on a roll
On a recent early fall day, Tracy Brown and Jesse Vadala connected to reflect on what had been an extremely busy several months for them and the rest of TU’s Northeast Coldwater Habitat Program. “It can be a bit of a slog,” Brown said of TU’s field season, which generally wraps up in October for…
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The Willowemoc- A Healthy Momentum
Trout Unlimited has been actively working to improve trout streams in the Catskills since the late 1950s and shows no signs of stopping. In partnership with the town of Rockland and Friends of the Upper Delaware, Trout Unlimited staff have begun survey assessment work to better understand the current conditions and challenges facing Willowemoc Creek…
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