By Dave Ammons On her 60th birthday my mother led me to the summit of Mt. Elbert, the highest among Colorado’s fourteeners. She was a mountain goat, small and sinewy, always seeking challenges in the wilderness. She was also determined, reticent to concede to limitations, and stubborn to the core. Not long after that climb…
By Chris Hunt I got lost last night. Not your traditional, “I have no idea where I am,” kind of lost. But lost just the same. My daughter is home for a scant month between jobs—she’s returned from Colorado’s ski country and is a month away from her next gig at Colter Bay on Jackson…
We’ll always have to fight for our public lands, but we should be grateful we have them in the first place. Photo by Chris Hunt. By Scott Willoughby It has been said that the hardest math to master is the ability to count our blessings. Funny enough, I’ve never been particularly good at math. That’s…
In 2022, Trout Unlimited and the U.S. Forest Service embarked on a five-year $40 million national Keystone initiative to increase the scale of watershed restoration on our national forests and grasslands—home to many of America’s most important native trout and salmon species and the source of drinking water for some 180 million people and 68,000…
8/20/2003 Bush Administration Healthy Forest Initiative Fails Fish, Public Trust Bush Administration Healthy Forest Initiative Fails Fish, Public Trust Policy would jeopardize much of the Wests remaining quality salmon and trout habitat on public lands with little or no public input Contact: Chris Wood Vice President of Conservation 703.284.9403 8/20/2003 — Portland, Ore. — Trout…
The Salmon SuperHwy has achieved more than 50 percent of its goal of restoring fish connectivity to 95 percent of historically available habitat across the Tillamook—Nestucca Sub-basin
As part of Trout Unlimited, she works to protect the hunting and fishing heritage that is so important to so many people. TU’s team works in collaboration with federal and state agencies, partner conservation groups and sportsmen and women for common-sense solutions to protect the wild places of the West. TU is engaged on the legislative level in every Western state and nationally on the congressional level.
In 2016, Donald Trump defied the polls and became president. Some of you may recall what I wrote to you back then: While most of the conservation community turned their backs, we engaged the Trump administration over the next four years to protect Bristol Bay. Our advocacy was key to helping persuade them to deny…
“Take your club as seriously as possible and beyond fly fishing. If Tyler and I hadn’t devoted the time we did to building our club we wouldn’t have had some of the best experiences imaginable in college. It goes beyond building a fly-fishing club.”
5/31/2000 FERC Stands by Edwards Dam Removal Decision FERC Stands by Edwards Dam Removal Decision Kennebec River Healthy One Year Later Contact: 5/31/2000 — — News from The Kennebec Coalition: American Rivers, Atlantic Salmon Federation, Natural Resources Council of Maine, Trout unlimited Contact: Margaret Bowman, American Rivers: (202) 347-7550 Andy Goode, Atlantic Salmon Federation: (207)…
It’s the oldest marketing “hook” in the fishing book. “This is going to help you catch more, bigger fish… guaranteed!”
As the year draws to a close, let’s celebrate a few of the victories that all of you—members, supporters, partners, donors, and our staff around the country—made possible
Washington commonly institutes fishing restrictions to protect vulnerable fish populations, like they did for steelhead in Scotty Creek, but these restrictions, unfathomably, do not extend to a destructive form of recreational gold mining called suction dredge mining.
By Chris Wood “Good riddance. Think of all of the money we are saving.” I looked at Max in exasperation. He is one of the most hard-core sportsmen I know. I have hunted for whitetail with him in driving rainstorms in West Virginia, and stalked catfish on the Potomac using hummus-impregnated Clouser-minnows. He is a…
By Toner Mitchell For the past 10 springs, the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish has hosted a release of Rio Grande cutthroat trout fingerlings at the – as of 2014 – Rio Grande del Norte National Monument just west of the village of Questa. Initially the event drew decent crowds, 10 to 20…
As Congress considers infrastructure investments to stimulate the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic, they can look to organizations like TU for evidence conservation is a job-creating investment.
Patagonia and the Outdoor Industry Association have put Utah on notice for its public lands stance of late. The outdoor recreation world has been abuzz the last few months with news that the organizers behind the lucrative Outdoor Retailer trade shows that come to Salt Lake City twice a year are considering a move to…
The author standing on the railroad bridge where the first brown trout were introduced to America. By Kirk Deeter Most anglers have home waters—places they consider sacred. For me, the tracks always lead back to Baldwin, Mich., and the Pere Marquette River system. It was here where I learned to fly fish. Many years ago,…
I landed at the Austin airport, and hustled over to the rental car company only to be told my license had expired the day before. The glee of the two clerks behind the counter was not lost on me. I was 90 minutes from New Braunfels, Texas, where I was scheduled in a few hours…
We asked a host of Trout Unlimited anglers what they’re doing in response to the heat in order to give trout a break this summer
