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  • Clean Water Rule Rollback – Statement of Chris Wood & Rob Masonis

    170228_TU_Chris Wood Statement CWRule Rollback.pdf Rollback of Clean Water Rule could impact steelhead recovery in Pacific Northwest TU underscores importance of protecting small streams for fish and wildlife as rule is evaluated CONTACT: Shauna Stephenson / Trout Unlimited ssherard@tu.org / 307.757.7861 (Feb. 28, 2017) Washington D.C. – Today President Trump signed an executive order that…

  • Voices from the river

    Voices from the River: Gages

    Fishing for steelhead at the mouth of the Carmel River in the 1960s. By Sam Davidson For most of the past year we have been living next to a river. This has changed the way I think about streams, and fishing. Every angler knows that rivers are dynamic (where they are not dammed, anyway). That…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: Olympic Peninsula Steelhead

    Steelhead fishing is an exercise in patience, no matter where you chase these majestic fish. My first two steelhead trips were fruitless endeavors—I spent hours casting over Idaho's Salmon River with nothing to show for it but a sore shoulder a bout with frustration. It's a thinker's brand of fishing, which makes it easy to…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: The Dorado

    What do you get when you send one of the world's best-known steelhead anglers into the Bolivian jungle with a spey rod? Some pretty impressive cinematography, to start. This is a land of wild rivers teeming with toothy fish, high-canopied jungles sheltering everything from jaguars to snakes as long as some of the dug-out canoes…

  • Big, wild, and coming back: California’s Eel River

    Soda Creek, tributary to the upper Eel River. Large wood structure project directed by TU's North Coast Coho Project. The Eel River is the beating heart of California’s “Lost Coast,” a swath of rugged country famous for its steelhead a nd salmon streams. Historically, the Eel was the third largest producer of salmon and steelhead…

  • TU Comments – Columbia-Snake – EIS Scoping

    170207_TU CRSO EIS Scoping Comments_Final.pdf Comments of Trout Unlimited submitted during the Scoping period for the NEPA review of the Federal Columbia River Power System. This comment period is just the start of a multi-year review process. TU looks forward to engaging throughout the process to ensure adequate review of system impacts on Pacific steelhead…