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Floodplain habitat connectivity improvement project site, Lawrence Creek TU’s North Coast Coho Project has been awarded a major grant to underwrite the first year of a three-year project to restore floodplain habitat connectivity in Lawrence Creek, a tributary to Yager Creek in the Van Duzen River drainage in Humboldt County, California. The Lawrence Creek Reconnection…
TU and partners sue Pacific Gas and Electric to restore California’s third largest river and its legendary salmon and steelhead fisheries
The inefficient and outdated way oil and gas leases are sold on our public lands puts our big game species, coldwater fish populations, and sage grouse habitat at risk for limited returns.
SalmonForestFinalSm.jpg NEW TU Logo.jpg November 20, 2015 Contact: Austin Williams, Alaska Director of Law and Policy, Trout Unlimited, awilliams@tu.org, 907-227-1590 Mark Kaelke, Southeast Alaska Project Director, Trout Unlimited, mkaelke@tu.org, 907-321-4464 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited commends the Forest Service for releasing proposed plan that includes protections for high-value salmon rivers Sportsmen and business owners encourage…
On April 7, the long effort to restore the Klamath River and its once-prolific salmon and steelhead runs passed another major milestone when the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) issued its Clean Water Act Section 401 water quality certification for the removal of the Lower Klamath Project. The Lower Klamath Project includes the…
By Sam Davidson I came across a video recently, on sockeye salmon migrating to the spawn in the Lake Iliamna area in Alaska. The productivity of this region for salmon is nothing short of amazing—and makes the proposed Pebble Mine, looming like the guillotine over the entire Bristol Bay ecosystem, that much more troubling. Watching…
A coalition of partners in the Lake Superior basin have been awarded $1.45 million by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to increase climate resilience in communities hit hard by catastrophic, repetitive flooding. Earlier this month, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department of Commerce and NOAA have recommended the funding of…
For many people in the western United States, public lands are a fact of life.
Photo by Ken Morrish 20-year mineral withdrawal approved by Interior Contact: Dean Finnerty, Oregon Field Coordinator dfinnerty@tu.org (541) 214-0642 Washington D.C. — Oregon and Californias Smith River got welcome news as the Department of the Interior approved a 20-year mineral withdrawal, protecting the river from proposed strip mining. In recent years, foreign mining companies have…
Contacts: Dan Roper, New Mexico State Lead, Trout Unlimited, dan.roper@tu.org Ivan Valdez, Owner, The Reel Life Fly Shop, Santa Fe, NM – ivanjvaldez@yahoo.com Santa Fe, NM – The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that approximately 166,000 acres of public land in the headwaters of New Mexico’s…
This may come as a shock to a lot of anglers out there, but the state with the most miles of trout water isn’t Montana or Colorado. It’s not Idaho or Wyoming or California. It’s Pennsylvania. And in Pennsylvania, folks are serious about their trout water, so much so that state Fish and Boat Commission…
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By Charlie Schneider Note: California’s Russian River is famous among anglers for its steelhead fishery, but in recent years this watershed has been the focus of an intensive effort to recover coho salmon, now one of the rarest native fishes in California. TU grassroots and programs such as the Coastal Streamflow Stewardship Project have been…
Once thought genetically extinct, this native trout is on the path to recovery
There was abundant sunshine, bluegrass, barbeque and 300 fly fishing enthusiasts that gathered to celebrate the grand opening of one of the nicest fly shops you’ll ever see—and the only one I’ve ever seen with a built-in bar—the new Brookings Fly Shop in Cashiers, NC.
A new film celebrates the dedicated volunteers of the Washington TU Barrier Assessment Team
7/24/2000 Hands-On, Volunteer Conservation Program Celebrates 25 Years of Rescuing Rivers Hands-On, Volunteer Conservation Program Celebrates 25 Years of Rescuing Rivers Trout Unlimited’s 2000 Embrace-A-Stream Grants Fund 47 Stream Recovery Projects Contact: 7/24/2000 — — Washington, D.C.. Trout Unlimited, the nation’s leading coldwater conservation organization, today announced recipients of the 2000 Embrace-A-Stream (EAS) grants, distributing…
Childhood days spent wandering and fishing California’s South Fork Kings River became the foundation of a man’s life as a sportsman-conservationist. By Bill Templin You probably have one of those places in the Great Outdoors that you’ve been visiting since you were very young. For me it’s the South Fork Kings River.SFKingsRiver@oldSwimminHole_Templin.jpg (L) The “old…
The Guadalupe River chapter of TU looks well beyond their state and their (engineered) river to drive important conservation changes for native trout around the nation.
When it comes to long-term restoration projects, Erin Rodgers measures the passage of time not so much by clocks and calendars, but by kids.