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Marian Giannulis is the new communications director for Trout Unlimited’s Alaska Program. Giannulis will have the important task of overseeing external communications for TU’s efforts in Alaska and we are confident that she is up for the job
Contact:Paula Dobbyn, Trout Unlimited, Alaska Program, Director of Communications, pdobbyn@tu.org, or (907) 230-1513Austin Williams, Trout Unlimited, Alaska Forest Program Manager, awilliams@tu.org, or (907) 227-1590 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Fishermen and Tour Operators Press Congress to Protect Tongass Salmon and Trout Watersheds The Tongass 77 Proposal Would Help Guarantee a Self-Sustaining, Economic Engine Juneau, Alaska A delegation…
The Royal Coachman Lodge is one of the premier Alaska fly fishing lodges located in the heart of the world famous Bristol Bay sport fishing region of Southwest Alaska. The lodge sits on the banks of the Nuyakuk River, a quarter of a mile downstream from the outlet to Tikchik Lake, nestled in the 1.6…
November 20, 2017 Contact: Austin Williams, Trout Unlimited, (907) 227-1590 PRESS KIT AVAILABLE: including b-roll footage, photos and interview footage about the Tongass Land and Resource Management Plan at this link. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Important salmon-producing areas threatened in proposed rollback of Tongass National Forest Plan Amendment New measure by Sen. Murkowski (R-Alaska) would undo…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Tim Bristol Alaska Program Director, Trout Unlimited, 907-321-3291 or tbristol@tu.orgPaula Dobbyn — Alaska Director of Communications, Trout Unlimited, 907-230-1513 or pdobbyn@tu.org Trout Unlimited, Together With Hundreds of Fishing and Hunting Groups, Applauds Call for Federal Protection of Bristol Bay Watershed (April 22, 2010, Anchorage, Alaska) Trout Unlimited and the Sportsmans Alliance for…
Matt Boline is the new Southeast Alaska community engagement manager for Trout Unlimited’s Alaska Program. Matt will spend his time working in communities across Southeast Alaska to engage residents and visitors in conversation and restoration projects. There is a lot of exciting work happening in southeast, including the Tongass National Forest moving away from old-growth…
Photo by Arne Johnson By: Mark Hieronymus The mighty Chinook salmon, the largest of the Pacific salmon species and the state fish of Alaska, is shrinking, according to a recent article in Fish and Fisheries (2018). Fisheries researchers from Alaska and Washington analyzed several databases spanning more than 40 years and looked at over 1.5…
Alaska anglers are supporting Ballot Measure 1 to protect our wild salmon legacy and promote responsible development. By: Jenny Weis You’ve read the Ballot Measure 1 language, understood the expensive deception campaign is full of it, and have pledged to vote YES in November. Now what? We need your help! Once you know that Voting…
Bristol Bay Orgs & TU file briefs in State of Alaska Lawsuit Against EPA
Colony High School teacher, Tim Lussow, is all smiles after receiving fly tying material donations to support his “Alaska Wild” course. Photo: Eric Booton After spending the past couple of months hosting a fly tying material donation drive for Colony High School, I have two words to share with my fellow anglers: THANK YOU! The…
June 3, 2009 Contact: Nelli Williams – 907-230-7121 nwilliams@tu.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 3, 2009) — As part of its international campaign to build consumer demand for wild salmon and to help protect Southwest Alaskas Bristol Bay watershed from the threat of large-scale mining, Trout Unlimited (TU) is holding a public event in…
By: Nelli Williams One afternoon late last summer, I took advantage of a sunny, warm day to take my kids to a playground near Campbell Creek. It was packed with kids swinging, jumping and sliding. Suddenly, we all heard shrieking near the river. It quickly became apparent that nothing was wrong, but that a couple…
Editor’s note: Building off the success of last year’s Native Odyssey campaign, Trout Unlimited sent four of our brightest college club leaders in the TU Costa 5 Rivers Program to explore the home of the world’s largest runs of wild salmon: Alaska. These students are exploring the Kenai Peninsula, Bristol Bay and the Tongass National…
By: Eric Booton The November 6th general election is rapidly approaching, and with every day that passes defenders of salmon habitat are working hard to distribute the truth to Alaskan voters. To keep it simple, we’d like to boil it down to the basics of what a “yes” or “no” vote means to our supportive…
Photo by Alan Corbett By Erin Heist Though the days of timber barons have long expired, Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is no stranger to timber wars in recent decades. However, with a recent and hard-fought amendment to the Tongass Land Management Plan (TLMP) by TU and many partners, Southeast Alaskans formed a shared vision…
Trout Unlimited has teamed up with Omaze, a company that organizes giveaways that give back, to offer one lucky winner and a friend a getaway fly-fishing adventure in Bristol Bay.
“Excitedly, too excitedly, I ripped the mouse from the trout’s mouth before it decided that the mouse was more trouble than it was worth and could not be convinced to poke its head out again.”
Alaska wilderness fishing lodge.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tim Bristol Alaska Program Director, Trout Unlimited / 907.321.3291 Elizabeth Dubovsky WhyWild Director, Trout Unlimited/907.321.7221 Trout Unlimited Praises Target for Replacing Farmed Salmon with Wild Alaska Salmon Juneau, AK Today, Trout Unlimited, the nation’s largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization with over 140,000 members around the country, praised the prominent national retailer…