Overview & Introduction Critical minerals are found extensively in everyday life. They’re in the car you drive, the cell phone you scroll through, wind turbines and solar panels generating electricity and the television giving you a weather forecast and the news each morning. They’re used in airplanes, precision guided missiles and submarines. Importantly, they are
Monocacy Creek, a spring-fed stream that flows through the heart of Bethlehem, Pa., is featured in a new short film about how the Keystone Fund helps protect Pennsylvania’s hunting and fishing resources.
“He was right!” My friend Sam Dean exclaimed this as the 10-inch wild rainbow jumped around the small pool
This river is unique. The only river in the Great Lakes Basin without a single dam, she flows free through the Huron-Manistee National Forest from headwater tributaries to the mainstream
The California Salmon and Steelhead Coalition celebrates ten years, legislative leaders for coastal streams and water policy
Trout Unlimited & the Forest Service: A Partnership That Works In 2022, Trout Unlimited and the Forest Service embarked on a five-year $40 million national 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
Almost every major river in the American West has a dam somewhere along its course. One of the few exceptions is the magnificent Yellowstone River in Montana — at 692 miles long, the Yellowstone is the longest free-flowing river in the contiguous United States. For most other rivers and their fisheries, dams and their operation
To celebrate Public Lands Month, many TU staffers took to their local public lands and waters to participate in #ResponsibleRecreation. Staying close to home while still getting out to enjoy the outdoors has been imperative for many during the pandemic. Here are some of their stories: Exploring public land heritage along the Columbia River Tsagaglalal.
Historic willow removal, water withdrawal and upstream channel manipulations have resulted in extreme bank instability and areas of excessive erosion and deposition on Lower Swift Creek. Trout Unlimited photo. November 9, 2020 Contacts: Leslie Steen, NW Wyoming Program Director, Trout Unlimited, 307-699-1022, lsteen@tu.org Kay Lynn Nield, District Manager, Star Valley Conservation District, 307-884-7119, knield@starvalleycd.org Adam
8/18/2004 TU and Forest Service Form Partnership for Clean Up of Abandoned Mines TU and Forest Service Form Partnership for Clean Up of Abandoned Mines Contact: Tim Zink Manager, Media Relations Trout Unlimited 703.284.9427 8/18/2004 — Salt Lake City — The USDA Forest Service and Trout Unlimited announced today they have entered into a partnership
8/9/2001 Russian River Fish Finally Have a Way Home Russian River Fish Finally Have a Way Home Trout Unlimited, at the invitation of Sonoma County, will attend a long-awaited ribbon-cutting ceremony for Healdsburg Dam Fishway Project Contact: 8/9/2001 — — August 9, 2001 ALBANY, CALIF. Trout Unlimited, the nations largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization, will
Tuesday, June 13th, 2017 JACKSON ADOPT-A-TROUT PROGRAM ENGAGES 200 MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION JACKSON, Wyoming – Trout Unlimited (TU), the Jackson Hole Trout Unlimited chapter (JHTU), and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) announced today the successful conclusion of the 2016-2017 school year Adopt-a-Trout Program with a field day at the
Editor’s note: The TU Costa Five Rivers Native Odyssey team spent the summer traveling across America in search of native trout. This installment: Idaho. Public Land: Sawtooth National Forest The Sawtooth National Forest encompasses 2,110,408 acres largely in Idaho, but also partially in Utah. It is comprised of multiple terrain types including sagebrush steppe, spruce-fir
Contact: David Moryc, American Rivers, (202) 347-7550 Ken Neubecker, (970) 376-1918, Colorado Trout Unlimited, Randy Scholfield, Colorado Trout Unlimited, (303) 440-2937 x108 Upper Colorado River among America’s Most Endangered Rivers Water diversions threaten prized trout fisheries and sustainable water supply Washington New water diversion projects could sap the life from the Upper Colorado, threatening prized
July 11, 2014 Contact: Steve Moyer (703) 284-9403 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited welcomes Rep. DeFazios mining reform legislation Bill provides mine cleanup funding and helps voluntary cleanups WASHINGTONTrout Unlimited welcomed a bill introduced by Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon to create a revenue stream for abandoned mine cleanups and provide much-needed liability relief for
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec. 12, 2014 Contact: Toner Mitchell, 505 231-8860, tmitchell@tu.org Garrett VeneKlasen, 505-670-2925, garrett@nmwildlife.org Oscar Simpson, (505) 345-0117, oscarsimpson3@yahoo.com New Mexico sportsmen praise passage of Valles Caldera, Columbine-Hondo bills Congress permanently protects outstanding New Mexico backcountry hunting and fishing lands (Santa Fe) Trout Unlimited, the New Mexico Wildlife Federation, and New Mexico Backcountry
Gill lice in a Wisconsin brook trout. Photo courtesy of Wisconsin Trout Unlimited. By Jack Williams In Wisconsin, Department of Natural Resources staff are finding increasing rates of gill lice parasitism in brook trout as waters warm. In North Carolina, the same gill lice have been found for the first time on brook trout from
https://login.tu.org/sites/default/files/blog/20160519_145145_resized_7%5B7%5D.jpg Salter brook trout tend to be heavy for their length. (Jeff Reardon photo.) By Jeff Reardon I recently returned from five days in eastern Maine with a group of volunteers from TU, Maine Audubon and the Sea Run Brook Trout Coalition (SRBTC), along with staff from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
President Biden designates his first national monument in the Rocky Mountains, recognizing the history of WWII soldiers who later became the catalyst for America’s burgeoning outdoor recreation economy
Consider some of the major factors in the decline of native salmon, steelhead and trout in North America. Extensive loss of habitat from dams and other development. Too much water diverted from streams. Degraded water quality from poorly maintained roads and leaky old mines. In California, you can add cannabis cultivation to this list of
