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Big Creek Restoration Work Continues
The official start to summer in New York coincided with another historic storm coming on the heels of a very rainy spring. A little extra rain amplifies lush green landscapes and healthy flowing rivers. However, we’ve again witnessed what happens when massive storms carrying a deluge of water and debris, head directly for a small community like the Village of Waterville. Local partners are collaborating to stabilize Big Creek to be more resilient when…
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Gratitude
TU makes it easy to be thankful
November is a pensive month for me. The leaves color and then let go. The plants lovingly cared for all spring and summer, decay. The days grow shorter and the nights longer. This will also be the first year that my brothers and I will not celebrate Mom’s November birthday, as she passed in July.…
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A barrier on Jenny Creek is gone
Salmon and steelhead gain access to more habitat on a key Klamath River tributary A little over a year ago, the four dams blocking the Klamath River came down after multi-decade advocacy efforts by regional tribes, anglers, commercial fisherman and conservationists. It was the largest dam removal project in history, and the fish responded…
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A year after Helene, TU’s impact continues to resonate
Jay Hawthorne was enjoying a tour of a Kentucky bourbon trail with his wife and another couple when it became clear that Hurricane Helene was going to hit the inland Southeast. The group managed to make it back to Madison County, N.C., where Hawthorne and his wife watched the French Broad River rage from their…
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A Restoration Program Takes Root in the Rio Grande and Gila Headwaters
How TU's team in New Mexico is restoring the state's most enchanting waters and lands in 2025
As summer winds down and we transition to the shorter days and cooler temperatures of fall, project season is in full swing for us. As TU’s project footprint grows in New Mexico, our intent is to better tell our story and provide more opportunities for TU members and the angling community to engage in the…
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Driftless Area Restoration Effort Update
The Driftless Area team has been hard at work preparing for a very busy summer. With support from the Wisconsin Council of Trout Unlimited, the Capital Area Regional Planning Commission and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, we have a technician crew collecting culvert assessment data in the Driftless portion of Dane County this summer. …
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TU Science: Measuring the carbon benefits of restored floodplains
While Trout Unlimited’s river and floodplain restoration is often aimed at trout and salmon species, the benefits of our work extend far beyond fish habitat. When a stream channel is reconnected to its floodplain, key complexity and ecological processes are restored. The riparian habitat becomes more diverse, composed of a mosaic of side-channels, wetlands, willow…
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