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TU Praises Sen. Thomas for Recognizing Value of WY Backcountry

6/21/2006 TU Praises Sen. Thomas for Recognizing Value of WY Backcountry June 21, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tom Reed, (406) 522-7291 x104, treed@tu.org Robert Pistono, (307) 637-7838 TU Praises Sen. Thomas for Recognizing Value of WY Backcountry Senators recognition of fishing and hunting on public land is good news for Wyomings sportsmen JACKSONSen. Craig

Voices from the River: Lady angler goals

Published in Voices from the river

Baby Skeena and Baby Morgan on the Kenai River. Photo courtesy of the Williams family By Jenny Weis My dad and uncle fished at our family cabin growing up, my boyfriend taught me how to fly fish, and most fishing trips among my friends were male-only, with no invitation extended to the females. Truthfully, for

Only a few BWOs to go around

Published in Voices from the river, Travel, TROUT Magazine

By Eric Booton Frustration is exhaled from behind my fully zipped collar, and the cloud of vapor fills the drawn hood of my wading jacket, fogging my lenses, furthering the frustration. I’ve heard nothing but positive reviews of this impressively clear and painfully cold spring creek. With an exception or two, I was easily able to round

Land Conservancy Fund

Trout Unlimited’s Land Conservancy Fund is a matching grant program designed to provide chapters and councils with grants to help with land protection projects, including conservation easements and land trust or agency acquisition and/or ownership of properties that are a priority for native and wild trout and salmon populations. The program is administered by the

SweetWater Brewing Co. stands with TU on Lower Snake dam removal

Published in TU Business

“SweetWater supports our friends over at TU in their mission of conservation and recovery of salmon and steelhead on the lower Snake River. Protecting healthy river ecosystems and a diversity of fish species ultimately means protecting the source of clean, quality water that turns into the downstream beer we enjoy. Because protecting our great outdoors is in our DNA – you just can’t make good beer without clean water.”

Slamming at 67

Published in Fishing, Conservation

“She had crawled half-way over a log that much larger than she was when she spotted a Bonnie in a small pool on the other side of the log,” he recalled. “Not wanting to scare it away, she laid down on the log and pushed her rod slowly in front of her. Before she could get the fly where she really wanted it, another trout rose and took it.”

Thinking big, starting small

Published in Conservation, TROUT Magazine

Herman Garcia (L) of CHEER and Matt Clifford, California Water Attorney for Trout Unlimited, at an off-stream storage project site along Little Arthur Creek. In 2006, the Pajaro River on California’s central coast came out of obscurity to make national headline—for the wrong reason: it was named the most endangered river in America. Historically, the

Clearwater closed to steelhead anglers

For immediate release  Sept. 20, 2019  Contact:  Eric Crawford  Trout Unlimited  (208) 596-5866, ecrawford@tu.org  Shauna Stephenson  Trout Unlimited  (307) 757-7861, sstephenson@tu.org  Clearwater closed to steelhead anglers: Time to address dwindling salmon and steelhead populations  With dismal fish returns, Idaho places stringent restrictions on steelhead seasons  (Sept. 20, 2019) BOISE, Idaho – The Idaho Fish and Game Commission announced today that they would be

TU applauds proposed full funding for Great Lakes restoration

Published in Uncategorized

By Taylor Ridderbusch Trout Unlimited is pleased to see that the Omnibus Appropriations Bill has included full funding, at $300 million, for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. The GLRI has proven to be one of the best tools for sparking investment into coldwater fisheries throughout the Great Lakes Basin. TU applauds the work of the

From Bristol Bay to the Bronx

Published in Community, Conservation, Fishing

Washington, D.C., is a long way from Dillingham, Alaska, but that’s where Triston Chaney spent his 19th birthday. Triston was among a group of commercial fishermen, lodge owners and outfitters who came back to the nation’s capital to discourage the EPA from permitting the proposed Pebble Mine in southwest Alaska. Over birthday cake at our

Mine could pose threat to famed Smith River

Published in Uncategorized

As the season kicks off for anglers and boaters on Montana’s famous Smith River, a proposal to place a copper mine next to one of the Smith’s most important tributaries continues to move forward. Tintina Resources, a small Canadian mining company without any history of operating mines, has proposed to place its large underground Black

Get loopy

Published in Uncategorized

By Kirk Deeter I go through cycles when it comes to fly selection. I once spent an entire summer fishing only five patterns, just to test the theory that presentation matters more than the fly pattern itself. I didn’t draw any conclusions, but I caught plenty of trout. For the record, those patterns were: Olive

Short casts: Losing a friend, geeking out, hope for Gilas

Published in Uncategorized

Pat Oglesby Several years ago, my friend Pat Oglesby, a long-time TU volunteer and a leader within the Grand Valley Anglers chapter of Trout Unlimited in Grand Junction, asked me to come and speak to the chapter’s ann ual banquet that takes place in conjunction with its annual fly tying expo. I’d known Pat and

What can you do in a roadless area?

Published in Uncategorized

By Corey Fisher What can you do in a roadless area? Just about anything. What is a roadless area? Roadless areas, or Inventoried Roadless Areas, are generally those undeveloped portions of National Forests 5,000 acres or larger that are not designated as Wilderness, but that meet to minimum criteria for for consideration under the Wilderness

Hiking the CDT: Characters on the trail

Published in Youth, Community, Featured, Travel

Crash and Kiltsman stayed with us for the first day out of town. The year before they had done the Appalachian Trail and they kept telling us it was harder than this trail. Not so much in terms of length but in terms of elevation gain and loss. Kiltsman got his name for the Scottish kilt he wears, no matter the weather.

The Book Cliffs in Utah provide solace and critical habitat

Published in American Places, Public Lands Month

Editor’s note: TROUT Magazine Online will publish frequent essays on “American Places,” lands and waters that make the nation unique. These essays will be crafted by Trout Unlimited staffers, contributing writers and volunteers. These places are near and dear to many and worthy of sharing in hopes of creating more advocates for the treasures so