New leadership and investments in people reflect growing federal partnerships and project funding across region Contact: DENVER – Today, Trout Unlimited (TU) announced a series of new investments in its people to accommodate the growing number of innovative partnerships across the Rocky Mountains. Over the last decade, TU has secured roughly $133 million in funding partnerships to
11/28/2000 TU Says Babbitt’s Endorsement of Native Fish Habitat Plan for Plum Creek a Mistake TU Says Babbitt’s Endorsement of Native Fish Habitat Plan for Plum Creek a Mistake Contact: 11/28/2000 — — Contact: Bruce Farling, Executive Director, Montana Council, Trout Unlimited: (406) 543-0054 Steve Moyer, Vice President for Conservation Programs, Trout Unlimited: (703) 284-9406
The Nacimiento River at peak winter flow, central California. By Sam Davidson A recent telephone call with the Steelhead Whisperer got me fired up. His brother had been car-camping around the central coast, and had seen people fishing in one of the streams that swerve out of the Santa Lucia range and through the oak
Photo by Rachel Andona By Chris Hunt A year ago, I was well into the British Columbian interior, motoring north toward my eventual destination at Deadhorse on the Arctic Ocean, a new camper in tow, many miles to go and about six weeks to get there and back. It was a marathon pocked by dozens
Contact: Chris Hunt, Director of Communications – (208) 406-9106 Colin Kearns, Senior Editor, Field and Stream – (212) 779-5082 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TU, Field and Stream announce 2011 Best Wild Places Six locations chosen for sporting assets and need for long-term protection Washington, D.C. Trout Unlimited and Field and Stream magazine today announced the six
Yellowstone cutthroat trout are the prime beneificiaries of climate change adaptation work done on Idaho’s Crow Creek Photo by Chris Hunt. By Dr. Jack Williams An old friend from back in our government days, Wayne Elmore, frequently noted that “when it’s all said and done, there will likely be more said than done.” How true.
TU’s Jack Rodgers recently connected with Alberto Rey, the 2021 Orvis Fly Fishing Guide of the Year, to chase steelhead in Lake Erie tributaries. He learned that Rey is not only a skilled guide but also a talented artist.
A volunteer chapter in Washington State is going the distance to collect trout and salmon eDNA samples in their home water
Editors note: Every Friday, our science junkies over at Trout Unlimited’s Wild Steelhead Initiative give us an inside look at what’s happening in the world of steelhead science. During the Holidays, we’re running the best of those Science Friday piec es on the TU blog. If you’ve ever spent any time thinking about the sheer
From stream restoration to species recovery, science drives Trout Unlimited.
To clean up the West’s abandoned mines, we need funding and liability protections for Good Samaritans who want to do the work
A new chapter in a longstanding partnership to recover and reconnect trout waters on public lands.
By Scott Willoughby They call it Fisherman’s Nightmare. And as scare tactics go, it’s as accurate as it is effective. Floating into the chaotic jumble of rocks and water that serves as sentinel to the Colorado River’s daunting Gore Canyon, it’s easy to imag ine how the rapids earned their name. Dropping precipitously from the
The California coastal stream where the author tried to begin again. By Sam Davidson The photos didn’t do justice to the fish. I had been waiting patiently for word from the Steelhead Whisperer, who had spent most of the day on his favorite winter water on the central California coast. But for hours all I
Southern steelhead country. My son and I wandered into the land of the southern steelhead yesterday. Cactus sprouted like gargoyles from the sandstone outcroppings that lined the creek up which we hiked. This winter has been profligate all across California and yet another massive cumulonimbus cloud reared up over the peaks above us. Then it
Native south-central California coastal steelhead. Photo: Capelli/NOAA Fisheries. Steelhead, the sea-run version of rainbow trout, have one of the most diverse life histories of any fish species. On the West Coast, this life history diversity has enabled steelhead to colonize and persist in coastal drainages in a region—the south-central coast of California—with highly variable precipitation,
The first thing to understand about fishing with the G Man is that he likes to combine wetting a line with some form of law enforcement. This is not all that surprising. When you have spent a portion of your career as a deputy sheriff, and all of it dedicated to conservation of habitat and
Helen Neville, left, and Doug Peterson, right, install a stationary PIT antenna on culvert to track fish movement. Trout Unlimited photo. By Helen Neville How many times do you cross a river while heading to your favorite fishing spot? Unless you are looking for a new place to fish, chances are you don’t make a
Years ago, while working in the upper Arkansas River Valley as a small-town newspaper reporter and editor, I shared layout space with a number of other local newspapers. Our papers were owned by a small chain based in Salida, and every week, editors from Buena Vista, Fairplay and Leadville would descend upon the offices in
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