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Fishing in the abyss
California’s Owens River offers prettier sections. There are certainly reaches of this stream where an angler can find larger trout. There are many places on this river where you will not hear and feel electric diodes buzzing like murder wasps in the background. In fact, fishing the deep, dark-walled gorge this river carved over millennia…
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Remembering Jim Greene, the best of TU volunteers
I first met Jim Greene as a relatively new employee of Trout Unlimited. He was an incredibly energetic earnest, and gregarious man. We went to lunch and I listened to how he and others—Jim would always insist on crediting others—helped to grow the Trout in the Classroom program in Maryland from a handful of schools to…
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Embrace A Stream Challenge: Only 48 hours left to ‘Give Where You Fish’
DONATE NOW AT WWW.EMBRACEASTREAM.ORG Join Trout Unlimited and Orvis in helping 17 local TU chapters — made up of members and volunteers like you — restore the rivers they love and unlock $20,000 in cash prizes to support their work. Together we’ve already raised more than $31,000 for these great projects, and with just 48…
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Support TU’s youth programs through GRTU 100 for 100 Challenge
TU's youth outreach has never been more crucial as kids are stuck inside, suffering from Zoom fatigue and screen-bound for hours on end
To sustain Trout Unlimited's conservation legacy it is vital we pass the baton to people like Andrew Dang. Andrew is a former Youth Leadership Council member and TU teen leader. He received the Youth Leadership Award at the 2019 TU Annual Meeting. We asked Andrew about his origins with conservation and TU. "My love for conservation grew from my…
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One less barrier to access
As the trees from the trail opened to a view of the water, I checked out the anglers already standing in the river. Against all common sense, I immediately assumed they knew more than me. I assumed they were slightly annoyed that I had come to crowd their spot. As I walked upstream to avoid getting too close, I peeked at their gear. Little by little,…
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Donate $10 through Orvis Giveback Days and help Embrace A Stream make fishing better
What does it take to plant 22,685 trees, restore nearly 60 miles of trout stream and reconnect 166 miles through dam and culvert removals? It takes you, Orvis... and just $10. From now through Sept. 24, through the Orvis Giveback Days, when you give $10 to TU's Embrace A Stream grant program you'll get a…
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Sept. 11: National Day of Service and Remembrance
Each year since 2009, Sept. 11 has marked a federally recognized National Day of Service and Remembrance. On this day Americans across the country volunteer in their local communities in tribute to those lost and injured in the September 11, 2001 attacks, first responders, and the many of us who have since risen in service.…