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Conservation Funding: Trout Unlimited Letter to U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee for Agricultue and related – urging strong support for Farm Bill programs in FY18 Appropriations process. 170627_TU_FY18_Ag_Approps_House_FNL.docx.pdf June 27, 2017 RE: Trout Unlimited strongly supports Farm Bill conservation program funding in your FY18 Appropriations bill. Dear Chairman Aderholt, Ranking Member Bishop, and Members of the…
by Eric Booton The midnight sun came and went. We are so accustomed to the unending daylight that we neglected to pack headlamps. We were already run out a fishing hole earlier in the evening by black bear and passing anglers were warning us of a momma brown bear with cubs. It wasn’t the most…
When the opportunities to guide and fish the lands and waters of the Tongass National Forest—America’s largest and biggest fish producing forest—came knocking, he answered.
Congress’ lame-duck session offers opportunities for trout and salmon
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…
I love do-it-yourself fishing. The challenge of essentially learning as you go on new water has always appealed to me. That, and, of course, I just can’t afford to shovel $500 across the cab of a pickup to a guide that often. But there’s DIY. And then there’s the DIY where you’re dropped off on…
Trout Unlimited Press Release July 8, 2014 For Immediate Release Contact: Kyle Perkins, (303) 579-6498 kperkins@tu.org Sportsmens coalition seeks monument status for Browns Canyon Launches campaign for enhanced protections for a Colorado last best place (Denver)A coalition of sportsmens groups this week announced a new push to protect Browns Canyon, a unique natural and economic…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJuly 11, 2017 Contact: Nelli Williams, Trout Unlimiteds Alaska Program (907) 230-7121 No Free Pass say Alaskans to Pebble Mine backers ANCHORAGE, AK Alaskans and anglers, hunters, and the dozens of sport-fishing business owners that operate in the Bristol Bay region are extremely disappointed by todays announcement that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…
Monday, July 17, 2017 Contacts: Leslie Steen, Snake River Headwaters Project Manager, Trout Unlimited, 307-699-1022, lsteen@tu.org Lee Mabey, Forest Fisheries Biologist, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, 208-557-5784, lmabey@fs.fed.us TROUT UNLIMITED AND CARIBOU-TARGHEE NATIONAL FOREST PARTNER TO RESTORE TINCUP CREEK FOR NATIVE FISH JACKSON, Wyoming – Trout Unlimited (TU) and the Caribou-Targhee National Forest (CTNF) announced today the…
By Brian Johnson It’s been a busy and amazingly productive year for Trout Unlimited in California. With the help of our 10,000 California members and our dozens of agency and project partners, we reached major milestones on many of ou r highest priority initiatives. All of these highlight TU’s successful formula for protecting and restoring…
The McDade Recreational Trail meanders through the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area for 31 miles starting at Hileah and ending at Milford Beach near the town of Milford. Participants will have the opportunity to traverse roughly 6.7 miles of this trail, beginning adjacent to Toms Creek and finishing at the Eshback Boat Launch. Click HERE for the complete bike course. The course is mostly flat and the trail surface is a mix of…
Snake River steelhead, an Endangered Species Act listed species, will benefit from a collaboration of groups in Idaho that once worked against each other. Trout Unlimited photo. By Kira Finkler Looking around the West, it is easy to find watersheds where people are fighting over too little water. In Idaho, a group of partners decided…
Education and restoration overlap in Darek Staub’s projects along a spring-fed watershed in Central Oregon
The DOI ruling protects five Special Areas in the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska that are well known for their significant natural and cultural value Contacts: ARLINGTON, VA. – The Department of the Interior (DOI) today finalized a rule limiting or prohibiting new oil and gas development across 13 million acres within the National Petroleum…
For Immediate Release: Friday, March 21, 2014 Contact: Judith Kohler, National Wildlife Federation, 303-441-5163; kohlerj@nwf.org Katie McKalip, TRCP, 406-240-9262, kmckalip@trcp.org Shauna Sherard, TU, 307-757-7861, ssherard@tu.org Sportsmen: BLM improves plan for North Park, but more protection is needed for fish, wildlife DENVER A management proposal for Colorados North Park is an improvement from earlier plans for…
Monday, August 19, 2019 Contacts: Leslie Steen, Snake River Headwaters Project Manager, Trout Unlimited, 307-699-1022, lsteen@tu.org Lee Mabey, Forest Fisheries Biologist, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, 208-557-5784, lmabey@fs.fed.us JACKSON, Wyoming –Trout Unlimited (TU) and the Caribou-Targhee National Forest (CTNF) announced today the Tincup Creek Stream Restoration Project’s third year of construction is underway. The project is a large-scale,…
In good news for healthy fish, streams and communities, administration vetoes congressional effort to weaken landmark water law Contacts: ARLINGTON, Va.—President Biden today vetoed a Congressional resolution to block a revised, clearer definition of the “Waters of the United States” that would restore federal Clean Water Act protections for millions of miles of small streams…
Why one Alaskan guide is paying attention to a proposed industrial access road, and you should too
“It wasn’t pretty, and it certainly wasn’t easy, but with my line tangled over and over again, I dabbed and flipped my fly until that hungry little guy grabbed it. It was 9 a.m., the race was on, and it was time to get on the road to our next location.”
By Garrett Hanks Wolf Creek pass in the San Juan mountains of Colorado serves as the tipping point between the westward San Juan basin, home to the recently rediscovered San Juan cutthroat trout, and the Rio Grande cutthroat’s namesake river to the east. Unlike trout, bear, mule deer and other wildlife are unhindered by the ridgeline; their tracks freely cross the divide. Look north and you’ll notice the burn scar from the West Fork fire of 2013. Setting off south along the Continental Divide Trail, you quickly…
