By Scott Willoughby Snow season has arrived in Colorado. For better or worse, this year it coincides with election season. It is, of course, for the better. Despite the grumblings of a few fair-weather fishermen uninterested in facing the cold, hard reality of an early winter, the sooner we can reestablish our snowpack on the
Trout Unlimited’s (TU’s) mission is to conserve, protect and restore North America’s coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. For our mission to succeed beyond our current generation, we must reach out now to children and youth to teach them to fish, to teach them about conservation, and to encourage them to become future leaders in our
Beyond its confluence with Cow Creek near the village of San Ysidro, the Pecos River’s southward crawl is rarely supplemented by significant inputs other than random flash floods. Deriving its existence from how much snow falls on a mere six percent of its watershed, the Pecos flows most of its length through a desert, which is why I’ve always had difficulty believing that it’s the sixteenth longest river
Save Our Streams Clubs What is an SOS Club? Trout Unlimited, Izaak Walton League of America, and American Fisheries Society (collectively the ‘TIA Alliance’) have partnered to deliver a mission-based program for high schools focused on stream science and fisheries management. This program offers students hands-on field experience working on projects with biologists, college students and faculty,
I am 20 years old; sitting cross-legged on the floor of my dorm room. The words on the page are so freaking clear, but their application remains elusive. “Fly casting makes it possible to deliver a relatively weightless lure or imitation of a living creature on a target, using line weight to develop momentum.” After
This spring and summer, as legislators in Washington D.C. consider infrastructure investments to stimulate the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic, Congress can look to partnerships like that of the Kittitas Reclamation District and Trout Unlimited as evidence of the significant value conservation work brings to communities.
“To repeat the obvious, that means in 2006 an estimated 42 percent of the spawners in this “wild” population were hatchery fish. Statistical modeling indicated the number of steelhead smolts barged in the Snake River in the previous several years was a strong predictor of PHOS (Percent Hatchery Origin Spawners).”
Now more than ever, we need to address issues of equity within Trout Unlimited
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nelli Williams, Trout Unlimited, nwiliams@tu.org or (907) 230-7121 Brian Kraft, Katmai Service Providers, (907) 227-8719 or bkraft@alaskasportsmanslodge.com Nanci Morris Lyon, Bear Trail Lodge, (907) 246-2327 or gofish@bristolbay.com Alaska anglers, businesses call for investigation; immediate rejection of permit for proposed Pebble mine ANCHORAGE, AK – Videos released Monday show executives behind the controversial
I had heard about him from a friend who knew of his amazing skills as an equipment operator and used to tell me that, “Brett can clean your teeth with an excavator.”
When maintenance on the Lockwood Dam on the Kennebec River in Maine stranded more than two dozen endangered Atlantic salmon, Trout Unlimited members were there as part of a fish rescue team.
Bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) Species summary and status: The bull trout was once found throughout the Columbia River Basin, east to western Montana, south to northern Nevada, west to California and possibly as far north as southeastern Alaska. The main populations remaining in the lower 48 states are in Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, with
At Trout Unlimited, we aren’t always about checking all the boxes when it comes to restoration projects, but one that just happened on the Gunnison River in central Colorado does just that
How hydropower relicensing clears a path for migratory trout and salmon
How volunteers and staff are improving trout streams and helping reduce atmospheric CO2.
Inflation Reduction Act lowers carbon emissions, reforms oil and gas leasing on public lands, and invests in climate resiliency projects Contacts: Chris Wood, President and CEO, Trout Unlimited, chris.wood@tu.org Steve Moyer, Vice President for Government Affairs, Trout Unlimited, steve.moyer@tu.org Corey Fisher, Public Lands Policy Director, Trout Unlimited, corey.fisher@tu.org Tasha Sorensen, Western Energy Lead, Trout Unlimited,
Legislation necessary to remove liability hurdles preventing organizations and state agencies from cleaning up draining abandoned mines Contacts: David Kinney, Associate Vice President for Communications — David.Kinney@tu.org Ty Churchwell, Mining Coordinator – Ty.Churchwell@tu.org ARLINGTON, Va.—Today, a coalition of 59 fishing, hunting and outdoor recreation businesses urged Congress to pass the bipartisan Good Samaritan Remediation
Southeast Alaska tribes have long cared for their lands. Now they’re at work restoring them.
Having finished the online NYT crossword over morning coffee, retweeting some delicious burns on climate deniers, checking Facebook and Instagram, liking a picture of a steelhead, and prioritizing work emails before a day of zoom calls, he/she remarked, “Kids these days are hopelessly addicted to their devices,” as though the Peleton screen was an actual
A TU chapter partners with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to search for pure Kern River rainbow trout in its spectacular native range
