Just over 10 years ago we launched a new Deschutes Education program along the wild and scenic Crooked River in Oregon, with student field trips connected to our conservation goals and projects. Over the past years, we have worked with students from 9 distinct communities, and provided field trips to 4 local watersheds. Students have supported and learned about our
A new chapter in a longstanding partnership to recover and reconnect trout waters on public lands.
In Arizona, TU members have been actively involved in policy, management, funding and more on USFS projects, large and small, affecting streams, watersheds and landscapes.
Abandoned mine drainage impacts a small stream near homes in Pennsylvania. By Mark Taylor In Pennsylvania’s lower Kettle Creek watershed, an area scarred by abandoned mine drainage, water quality is improving. For example, Trout Unlimited and partners have worked to reclaim about 160 acres of abandoned mine land and installed nine passive treatment systems in
Seven years after the Gold King spill, a $90 million settlement agreement sets the watershed on the course for recovery. Ty Churchwell explains why it matters.
“This is the kind of program I would have loved to participate in as a child. I was a restless kid who really needed more than a day of sitting at a desk.” Tom Brennan, CEO of School Outfitters, said. “School Outfitters is excited to support kids learning in these active and real-world experiences.”
Brook trout will get a boost from newly funded projects in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Trout Unlimited was among several organizations to earn grant awards from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation through the organization’s Central Appalachia Habitat Stewardship Program. A $140,000 grant will be used toward a restoration and monitoring project in the Cross
5/16/2006 Cleanup Plans for Abandoned Mine Drainage in West Branch Susquehanna Receive Major Boost May 16, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Amy Wolfe, (570) 726-3118 Cleanup Plans for Abandoned Mine Drainage in West Branch Susquehanna Receive Major Boost STATE COLLEGE Trout Unlimited (TU) recently received an $81,000 grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to develop
How we’re making key Western streams more hospitable for trout and people in the hotter, drier present
For Immediate Release April 13, 2018 Contact: Steve Moyer, smoyer@tu.org, (571) 274-0593 Laura Ziemer, lziemer@tu.org, (406) 599-2606 Corey Fisher, cfisher@tu.org, (406) 546-2979 Trout Unlimited lauds conservation benefits in House Farm Bill Washington, D.C.House Agriculture Committee Chairman Michael Conoway yesterday introduced Republican-authored legislation for reauthorizing the Farm Bill, which expires Sept. 30. The bill reauthorizes many
Dec. 12, 2014 Contact: Corey Fisher (406) 546-2979 Chris Schustrom 406-260-1198 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sportsmen cheer protections for Montana’s North Fork of the Flathead River Bill withdraws 362,000 acres from mining, oil and gas drilling MISSOULA–A bill that protects the North Fork of the Flathead River in Montana from hard-rock mining and new oil and
TU volunteers greatly expand their restoration work through new collaboration with state and federal partners Last summer, the Clackamas River TU chapter partnered with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) and the US Forest Service to have a powerful, twin-engine helicopter place nearly 400 huge logs into Berry and Cub Creeks, two important
A young New York student watches a trout swim away at a Trout in the Classroom release. (New York City DEP photo) By Lillit Genovesi “The trout babies have hatched!” “How come they aren’t swimming?” “Are they happy?” Several inquisitive young Brooklynites crowd around a fish tank. A busy classroom in Brooklyn, N.Y., might seem
04/09/2008 Trout Unlimited Announces Annual Musconetcong River Clean-Up on April 19 April 9, 2008 Contact: Brian Cowden 201-230-3383 TU Musconetcong Project Coordinator Erin Mooney 703-284-9408 TU Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited Announces Annual Musconetcong River Clean-Up on April 19River is Site of TU’s Newest Home Rivers Initiative HACKETTSTOWN, NJ–Trout Unlimited, in coordination with
Trout Unlimited has received three federal grant awards totaling nearly $750,000 from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for stream protection and restoration projects in the upper Delaware River watershed. These grant awards support the conservation goals of the Delaware River Basin Conservation Act, administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in partnership with NFWF. Thanks to
Contact:Tim Bristol, Trout Unlimited, (907) 321-3291Mark Kaelke, Trout Unlimited, (907) 321-4464 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited Sets the Record straight with Sealaska Corporation and Senator Murkowski TU Calls for Strong Leadership on Meaningful Conservation Measures Juneau, Alaska Today, Trout Unlimited, the nation’s oldest and largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization, announced that contrary to a misleading
Based in the northern suburbs of Chicago, the Gary Borger Chapter is focused on conserving, protecting and restoring the coldwater fisheries and their watersheds here in the Midwest.
Getting bent on the lower Yuba River. The Yuba River is one of California’s many coldwater fishery jewels. In its upper forks the Yuba is a fine freestone trout stream; in the reach between Englebright Dam, where the river flows into the Central Valley, and its confluence with the Feather River near Marysville, the Yuba
Just over 10 years ago we launched a new Deschutes Education program along the wild and scenic Crooked River, with student field trips connected to our conservation goals and projects. Over the past years, we have worked with students from 9 distinct communities, and provided field trips to 4 local watersheds. Students have supported and
What do bridges, highways, and rail have to do with wild and native trout and salmon?
