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Voices from the River: 1 day, 820 trees
Steinbeck Country TU Chapter family member Cassie Frahm with a willow she planted in an old sand trap on the former Rancho Canada golf course on Earth Day 2018. By Sam Davidson You may have heard that there are a lot of dead trees in California these days. Over the Earth Day weekend, TU’s Steinbeck…
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Recovering Idaho’s native cutts and wild salmon and steelhead
Craig Harker and Matt Woodard on the Henrys Fork By Chris Wood Craig Harker and Matt Woodard, two native sons of eastern Idaho, sat in the front. The road hummed as we sped toward Ashton to get me a fishing license before we hit the Henry's Fork. “I remember it like yesterday," Craig said. "After…
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Reps. DeFazio and Huffman, champions for SW Oregon rivers
U.S. Reps. Peter DeFazio (Oregon) and Jared Huffman (California) today sent a letter to the House Committee on Natural Resources urging the committee to take immediate action to schedule a hearing for H.R. 310, The Southwestern Oregon Watershed and Salmon Protection Act. This bill would permanently protect salmon and steelhead strongholds on the southern Oregon…
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Salmon & Steelhead habitat in Washington head toward new safeguards
Pictured: Washington's Yakima River. Photo by J Brew By: Dean Finnerty Suction dredge mining has spelled trouble for salmon and steelhead habitat in Washington state. Recently, Trout Unlimited unearthed documents that suggest that motorized suction dredge mining has been allowed as an accident for the last 20 years. As a result of this oversight, some…
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Good Tunes, Good Times and Tight Lines!
Good Tunes, Good Times and Tight Lines! Hard to argue with that. When I asked Ben Noland recently if he’d be interested in supporting Trout Unlimited and my steelhead conservation work in the west, he immediately replied, “Of course, the biggest trout I ever caught was an Idaho steelhead!” Ben passed me along a photo…
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Voices from the River: Conflict to Collaboration in Idaho
Snake River steelhead, an Endangered Species Act listed species, will benefit from a collaboration of groups in Idaho that once worked against each other. Trout Unlimited photo. By Kira Finkler Looking around the West, it is easy to find watersheds where people are fighting over too little water. In Idaho, a group of partners decided…
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Video spotlight: How to make a single-handed spey cast
I'm not a big steelhead guy—I'll go once in a while, usually for the company and not so much the fishing, which is generally pretty slow. So I rarely find myself needing a ton of "big-water" casting skills. But one skill I learned while chasing steelhead is the one RIO's Simon Gawesworth describes below—spey casting…