Tag

rubies

  • Public Lands

    A gem worth saving

    “Special places bring people together.”

    “Special places bring people together.” In 2019, Trout Unlimited’s Nevada field coordinator Pam Harrington wrote those words in a blog post highlighting TU’s campaign to protect the Ruby Mountains from speculative oil and gas leasing. In 2025, this sentiment rings truer than ever as a broad coalition of stakeholders and decisionmakers have rallied behind the…

  • Conservation

    Three things the Rubies taught me

    The TU community has spent countless hours fishing the Ruby marshes and has dedicated years to protecting the region from oil and gas development via the Ruby Mountains Protection Act.  

    “Do you need a reminder on how to cast?” Trout Unlimited’s Nevada Field Coordinator, Pam Harrington, asked Zoe and I as she handed us each a fly rod.   With smiles to match the cloudless October sky above the vast valley we fished in, we exclaimed “Yes!”  The weaving marshes of Nevada’s Ruby Lake National Wildlife…