What are you fishing for?
Deb Turner had always loved fishing, but hadn’t been out for a number of years. Then she got a call from Casting for Recovery. “I’d never fly fished,” she recalled.
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Trout Unlimited – Match 2023
Time’s running out to help trout and salmon Deadline Extended! Double Your Impact! Every dollar donated through January 7 will be matched dollar-for-dollar and you’ll get a great gift! Give to the Member Challenge Match and help reach our goal of turning $500,000 into $1,000,000. Your gift today protects our rivers and streams tomorrow. Time’s
Questions and Answers About the Extinction Clock Study
7/9/1999 Questions and Answers About the Extinction Clock Study Questions and Answers About the Extinction Clock Study Contact: 7/9/1999 — — Why did Trout Unlimited sponsor this study? One of the recurring messages circulating in the region is that “more study is needed” before the big decisions on salmon restoration, such as the proposed partial
Future bright for premier wild trout fishery in the East
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is helping TU and partners boost fisheries on the Upper Delaware.
Big year for New England culvert team
By Colin Lawson The New England Culvert Program had a very successful 2016 field season completing over 10 restoration projects across Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Our team of three full-time and eight seasonal staff reconnected more than 17 miles of u pstream brook trout habitat, assessed over 1,800 road stream crossings for AOP and
Video spotlight: Together
Volunteers from the Snake River Cutthroats (Idaho Falls), Star Valley (Wyoming), and Jackson Hole Trout Unlimited chapters braved cold in mid-October 2017 to plant willows, mulch and seed. Kris Millgate/Tight Line Media. Partners in the Tincup Creek Stream Restoration Project in eastern Idaho near the Wyoming border recently completed Phase 2 of the plan with
Habitat Diversity
The Goose Creek basin in Idaho contains the western-most Yellowstone cutthroat populations in the Snake River drainage. TU has worked in the basin with the Bureau of Land Management and other partners to evaluate linkages between habitat diversity, coldwater fisheries, and a rare minnow and implement restoration activities to improve habitat conditions. Resources The Goose
The Gibralter is special
The place you catch a rainbow trout as big as a silver salmon is a place you hold with reverence. A place you plan to someday return.
Keeping a secret, even when the secret’s out
Given its dearth of trout fisheries, the state of New Mexico can boast of very few secret hot spots. One of these, a favorite of mine forever, is prone to extreme high water temperatures during the summer but becomes decent at the end of irrigation season. Its browns and cuttbows come out to play when the leaves turn yellow, hitting
Comprehensive agreement for Klamath Basin restoration proposed, sets stage for hyrdropower agreement and dam removal
01/15/2008 Comprehensive agreement for Klamath Basin restoration proposed, sets stage for hyrdropower agreement and dam removal FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 15, 2008 CONTACT: Severn Williams California Trout 510-336-9566, C 415-336-9623 Chuck Bonham, Trout Unlimited 510-528-4164, C 510-917-8572 Steve Rothert, American Rivers 530-478-5672, C 530-277-0448 Brian Barr, National Center for Conservation Science & Policy 541-482-4459 x
Trout Unlimited Applauds Salmon Planning Act
7/19/2001 Trout Unlimited Applauds Salmon Planning Act Trout Unlimited Applauds Salmon Planning Act Contact: 7/19/2001 — — JULY 19, 2001 (PORTLAND, ORE.) Trout Unlimited, the nations largest trout and salmon conservation organization, today voiced its support for a bi-partisan bill introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives calling for planning and actions necessary to recover
The True Cast – Just knowing they’re in there
My friend David’s house was right on the river. He was kind enough to let me park there and fish the big bend out back. And often times, he’d come out on his porch to chat with me as I made some casts. I remember one evening in particular, when a burst of hatching mayflies
Media Teleconference: TU releases '10 Special Places' report
ALLegany RedHouse Fishing youth _ALL_ (24a) copy[1].jpg Media Teleconference: New Trout Unlimited report features public fishing and hunting areas in East at risk from shale gas development Dec. 17, 2014 Contact: Mark Taylor, mtaylor@tu.org, 540-353-3556 MEDIA ADVISORY: Trout Unlimited releasing full 10 Special Places report Report focuses on protecting iconic public fishing and hunting areas
TU volunteers, staffers tout Delaware efforts on Capitol Hill
New Jersey TU staffer Cole Baldino and Musconetcong Watershed Association volunteer Bill Leavens. By David Kinney Last week, Trout Unlimited restoration staff and volunteers from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York visited their congressional offices in Washington D.C. to showcase efforts to restore wild trout habitat in the Delaware River Basin. In part, it was
Generous bequest boosts TU’s Land Conservancy Fund
Trout Unlimited’s work inspires in many ways.
A Busy Summer on the Salmon SuperHwy
To this day, the Salmon SuperHwy partnership has removed 50 barriers and reconnected over 127 miles of anadromous fish habitat. Three of those were finished this year.
Hooked
Snake River ambassador, Josh Warnick’s, journey to falling in love with the art of steelheading
TU blends online learning with the outdoors to serve young people during lockdown
Trout Unlimited is serving youth and volunteers in new ways to keep them engaged in our mission to protect, conserve, and restore North America’s coldwater fisheries during the pandemic. Some of our programs have been adapted to fit virtual and at-home formats to provide safe avenues of participation. Online platforms come with unique challenges but boast some exciting prospects. Here are examples of how we, the
Fishing and filming to ‘Escape’ the pain
“I knew the bugs would be smashed up against the bank and the angle and light would all be just right, but I was in pain. I ended up arguing with myself but seeing the shot already in mind forced me to get up and be a functioning human being. I knew if I didn’t go then, I would miss it. Things couldn’t have worked out any better. I owe that to the river.”
Conflict to Collaboration
Since the mid-nineteenth century, the central question of the American West has been: How much water is there in the region, and how do we best use it? This question has been a topic of debate for more than the past 150 years, and we’re still trying to answer it now in the twenty-first century.