Search results for “Tongass Priority Water”

TU lauds legislation to address abandoned mine lands

March 10, 2021  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Contacts:  Jen Orr-Greene, Eastern Policy Director, Trout Unlimited, jen.orrgreeen@tu.org  Steve Moyer, VP for Government Affairs, Trout Unlimited, steve.moyer@tu.org  ARLINGTON, Va. — Trout Unlimited enthusiastically supports bipartisan legislation that will reauthorize the Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Trust Fund and will accelerate its investments in former coal communities across the country.  TU is urging

Never been closer: new progress on the Klamath

Published in Dam Removal

The Klamath River is one of the country’s most beleaguered watersheds. But on July 27 the Oregon Public Utilities Commission provided some good news, when the agency approved an order granting transfer of four old fish-blocking dams to the Klamath River Renewal Corporation so they can be taken out.

TU Releases "Settled, Mined and Left Behind" Report

8/18/2004 TU Releases “Settled, Mined and Left Behind” Report TU Releases “Settled, Mined and Left Behind” Report Ten Western watersheds affected by pollution from abandoned mines profiled in report Contact: Tim Zink Manager, Media Relations Trout Unlimited 703.284.9427 8/18/2004 — Washington — The national conservation organization Trout Unlimited (TU) today released a report entitled Settled,

Trout Unlimited Celebrates Dramatic Recovery in the West Branch Susquehanna Watershed

Contact: Erin Mooney, National Press Secretary – (571) 331-7970emooney@tu.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Trout Unlimited Celebrates Dramatic Recovery in the West Branch Susquehanna WatershedEvent marks widescale watershed improvements resulting from abandoned mine restoration. Lock Haven, Pa. Trout Unlimited (TU), the nation’s largest coldwater conservation organization, celebrated improvements to the West Branch Susquehanna River and its many

Bringing the salmon home

Published in Dam Removal

On the border of Oregon and California, the largest dam removal ever attempted, anywhere on the planet, is underway on the Klamath River.

About Trout Unlimited

Our Mission To bring together diverse interests to care for and recover rivers and streams so our children can experience the joy of wild and native trout and salmon. Our Vision For communities across America to engage in the work of repairing and renewing the rivers, streams and other waters on which we all depend.

Fishing in the Farm Bill

Published in Restoration

Farm Bill conservation programs actually fund a significant amount of coldwater conservation across the country, and Trout Unlimited leverages several Farm Bill programs to improve and restore coldwater streams for trout, salmon, and people.

New report notes pipeline-related pollution events

Published in Conservation, Science, TROUT Magazine

By Jake Lemon and David Kinney Over the past few years, developers and regulators have assured Virginians and West Virginians that sound construction practices and the effective use of erosion controls would limit impacts to the hundreds of streams in the path of proposed Marcellus Shale country pipelines. “Based on the avoidance and minimization measures

Voices from the River: It’s a twin thing

Published in Voices from the river

There’s an infamous story from my youth. I don’t remember the finer points of the event, or any of the details really, just the “do you remember that one time” stories that my dad likes to throw in my face when the Booton family is together on the river. On a family vacation to Avalanche

What’s good for the forest is good for the trout

Published in Uncategorized

Volunteers plant trees along a small stream in the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay. Healthy riparian buffers are important for streams. By Steve Moyer Healthy trees, in addition to Trout Unlimited members and mayflies, has to be high on a trout’s best friends list. That is why TU is applauding Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) for

Klamath River restoration campaign passes another milestone

Published in Uncategorized

The upper Klamath Basin. Over the past year, TU’s long involvement in the campaign to restore the Klamath River and its salmon and steelhead runs paid dividends as this three-pronged effort passed several major milestones. TU’s staff and grassroots in both California and Oregon have played integral roles in this progress. Most recently, the Klamath

Of monuments and missed opportunities

Published in Conservation

By Chris Wood The one that got away isn’t always a fish. Eighteen years ago, I got a phone call from the forest supervisor of the Rogue-Siskiyou National Forest in southwest Oregon. He wanted President Clinton to use his authority under the Antiquities Act to make a big chunk of the forest a national monument

Gear test: The new Redington Butterstick

Published in Uncategorized

Mike Sepelak fishes the Redington Butterstick on a remote Idaho freestoner for native cutthroat trout. Photo by Chris Hunt. When I unzipped the bright orange rod tube containing the new Redington Butterstick and slowly lifted out the three-piece length of snazzy white fiberglass, I swear I heard the trumpets warming up for a sweet rendition

California sportsmen to Congress: reauthorize LWCF

tu-logo-xl.jpg September 17, 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Corey Fisher cfisher@tu.org / (406) 546-2979 Sam Davidson sdavidson@tu.org / (831) 235-2542 Sportsmens groups urge California congressional delegation to save the Land and Water Conservation Fund Program vital for habitat conservation and sporting access, expires September 30 TRUCKEE, Calif.Forty-three sportsmens organizations and businesses have signed and submitted

Oregon conservation groups, timber interests reach historic agreement

Published in Conservation

The State of Oregon is justifiably famous for many things, among them its world-renowned salmon and steelhead fisheries. But a slew of impacts, including hotter and drier conditions associated with climate change and harmful timber practices (especially on private forest lands), have diminished many of Oregon’s salmon and steelhead runs. Late last Friday, eighteen months

TU, TNC, CalTrout endorse State actions to control impacts of medical marijuana cultivation on California streams

June 30, 2016 CONSERVATION GROUPS ENDORSE NEW LEGAL AUTHORITY IN STATE BUDGET TO CONTROL IMPACTS OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA CULTIVATION ON CALIFORNIA STREAMS AND RIVERS SACRAMENTO Leading conservation groups today endorsed unprecedented actions by the Brown Administration and the California Legislature to control impacts of medical marijuana cultivation on the States streams and rivers. The actions

Delaware River Restoration Initiative builds on conservation successes

Published in Uncategorized

Trout Unlimited is leading a major project to protect clean water in the New Jersey Highlands, as a member of the Delaware River Watershed Initiat ive (DRWI). The William Penn Foundation announced more than $40 million in new funding for the DRWI, which is among the country’s largest non-governmental conservation efforts to protect and restore