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Watch conservation from the skies in “Romeo November”
TU partners with Lighthawk and American Rivers to highlight three conservation projects helping to recover the Colorado River Basin
TU Family Field Trip: Become a RIVERS ranger
The new RIVERS app from Trout Unlimited puts the power of a professional stream assessment tool in the palm of your hand and is the perfect way to get kids outside and doing “real” science. A mobile application designed to help TU members and volunteers develop a database of disturbances on their home rivers, RIVERS…
Extinction, Idaho?
With a few real exceptions, juvenile smolts in Idaho rear in some of the West’s best habitat, but on their way to the Pacific Ocean they must traverse eight dams, including four on the lower Snake River.
Major win for one of America's best coldwater fisheries
Five hundred miles. That’s a pretty significant distance, right? Now, imagine swimming that far. That’s how many river miles will re-opened to native steelhead in the Klamath River under the terms of a revised agreement between the federal government, the states of California and Oregon, and the utility company PacifiCorp. The amended Klamath Hydropower Settlement…
Dinner Time Conservation
I understood what years of talking about water, rivers, fishing and agriculture have done to them. It’s made them advocates. It’s made them passionate.
Understanding the upper Deschutes
Editor’s note: TU sent a handful of college students to the Pacific Northwest for this year’s TU Costa 5 Rivers Odyssey to study and fish in the Columbia River basin. Surrounded by the shadows of ponderosa pines, the Odyssey crew met up with Shaun Pigott, President of the Deschutes Redbands Chapter of Trout Unlimited. We set out…
TU lauds WaterSMART program
Oct. 31, 2016 Contact: Laura Ziemer, lziemer@tu.org, (406) 599-2606 Trout Unlimited, Senior Counsel and Water Policy Advisor Steve Moyer, smoyer@tu.org, (571) 274-0593 Trout Unlimited, Vice-President for Governmental Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Trout Unlimited lauds WaterSMART program New criteria prioritizes both water savings and river health WASHINGTON, D.C. Trout Unlimited today praised the Bureau of Reclamations…
Conservation and Fishing Groups Ask Energy Bill Conferees to Reject Hydro Measures
Conservation and Fishing Groups Ask Energy Bill Conferees to Reject Hydro Measures Conservation and Fishing Groups Ask Energy Bill Conferees to Reject Hydro Measures Contact: Steve Malloch Counsel TU (703) 284-9415 7/15/2002 — Arlington, VA — The nations leading conservation and fishing organizations have asked Congressional conference committee members working on the federal energy bill…
With 40 Years Of Conservation Work Under Our Belt…Trout Unlimited Outlines Goals For New Millennium
12/22/1999 With 40 Years Of Conservation Work Under Our Belt…Trout Unlimited Outlines Goals For New Millennium With 40 Years Of Conservation Work Under Our Belt . . .Trout Unlimited Outlines Goals For New Millennium Contact: 12/22/1999 — — Over 100,000 volunteer members of Trout Unlimited (TU) are reflecting on 40 years of conservation commitment to…
A sweep for TU Businesses
The Orvis Guide Rendezvous returned after a two-year hiatus, and TU Business members dominated the prestigious Orvis Endorsed awards.
Montana train derailment and bridge collapse. Sound familiar? Because it is.
Just as high waters were still flushing the Yellowstone River, sixteen cars derailed after a bridge collapsed and a train went off the tracks and into the waterway.
Sáttítla Highlands now a national monument
New monument designation permanently protects the source waters of the Fall River and other famous trout streams in northern California
TU and partners improve fish passage for spawning cutthroat on Bar BC Spring Creek
December 23, 2019 Contacts: Leslie Steen, Snake River Headwaters Project Manager, Trout Unlimited, 307-699-1022, lsteen@tu.org JACKSON, Wyoming –Trout Unlimited (TU) announced today that on-the-ground implementation for the Bar BC Spring Creek Fish Passage & Channel Restoration Project is currently underway. The project is a collaboration between agency partners and private landowners to improve fish migration into…
Senate reviews TU-supported public lands bills
Public lands are vital for trout fishing in America. Any decent map proves this. A hearing in the U.S. Senate on Oct. 19 provided a major opportunity to highlight the importance of public lands for coldwater conservation and to advance legislation that will better protect and restore some of the most famous trout, salmon and…
One fish
A single fish made me really happy recently, and I wasn’t even fishing. To be sure, this was no ordinary fish. It was a brute of a steelhead, as long as my arm and 12 pounds in heft, easy. So perhaps anyone seeing it languidly finning just upstream of the bridge footing nine miles from…
Video spotlight: Santa Cruz—Atlantic Steelhead
Steelhead? In the Atlantic? In far southern Patagonia in Argentina’s Santa Cruz River, it’s a reality. Patagonia, of course, is perhaps the troutiest destination on the planet, and there’s a significant amount of irony in that statement, given that not a single salmonid is native to this sweeping region of mountains, deserts and rivers. Tres…
Video spotlight: I am a Fly Fisherman
Put yourself in the shoes of Rich Schwend, a hard-rock miner from Billings, Mont., but also a rabid fly fisher. “Being a miner in a fly fishing community isn’t easy,” he says. He gets that, in today’s fly fishing world, protecting our trout resources often means that anglers are at odds with the mining industry.…
Video spotlight: Three runs
Russia’s Ponoi River might be the last, best place on earth to catch wild Atlantic salmon on the fly in appreciable numbers. And the river’s fish are incredibly resilient, largely due to the fact that their habitat is largely intact. The river is home to three runs of salmon (hence the title of the video…
Healing Waters Lodge
About us Orvis Endorsed fly fishing lodge and a guide service, in southwest Montana near the town of Twin Bridges, in the beautiful Ruby valley. Our lodge has 9 clean and comfortable guest rooms with a Lodge capacity of 18 guests, door-to-door fly fishing guide service, and all meals created fresh by our chefs. We…