You know spring is taking its time in Yellowstone when ice floes are cruising down the river between Lake Village and Canyon on Memorial Day. It’s just been one of those years—lots of late snow, and, as of Monday, more than a solid week of high-country thunderstorms slowed spring to a crawl. Rain gave way…
TU Press Release Feb. 22, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ty Churchwell, tchurchwell@tu.org, cell: 970-903-3010 Buck Skillen, bskillen759@gmail.com, 970-759-2726 Randy Scholfield, TU communications, rscholfield@tu.org, 720-375-3961 Trout Unlimited praises Superfund solution for Animas watershed (Durango, Colo.)Colorado Trout Unlimited leaders today praised Silverton and county officials approval of a proposed Superfund listing in San Juan County to…
7/28/1999 Trout Unlimited Celebrates Rangeley Settlement Trout Unlimited Celebrates Rangeley Settlement Deal Boosts Flows For World Class Brook Trout Fishery, Contact: 7/28/1999 — — Rangeley Lakes, Maine July 29, 1999 Trout Unlimited joined several conservation groups, state and federal agencies, Maine Governor Angus King and others in celebrating a final settlement governing the operation of…
Region: Southern RockiesActivities: Mountain biking; Skiing; 4WD; Fishing; Hunting, campingSpecies: Colorado River cutthroat trout; elk Where: The Hermosa Creek Watershed comprises 107,886 acres in La Plata and San Juan Counties, in southwestern Colorado. The area, just north of the town of Durango, is in public hands, managed as a combination of wilderness, roadless and special…
Thousands of miles of trout streams in New Mexico are susceptible to the historic drought plaguing the Southwest. TU just helped protect 305 of them.
The Mill Creek Dam Fish Passage Project dramatically improves access for native coho salmon and steelhead to more than eleven miles of high quality spawning and rearing habitat in a key tributary to California’s Russian River. TU and a variety of partners completed construction on this project in October 2016. Adult coho salmons returns in the Russian…
By Jamie Vaughan In Michigan, Trout Unlimited’s RIVERS App prompted a group of kids to join together to clean up their local creek. In August, Trout Unlimited staff had the opportunity to present the RIVERS App to educators in Michigan as part of the Groundswell Summer Institute, which introduces teachers to new resources and tools for place-based education. After learning about this new tool, Michigan educator Andrea Dudley went…
National Park Service photo. By Chris Wood and Jeff Skelding It could have been far worse. The Up per Delaware River dodged a bullet last week when heavy rains and flooding washed out a railroad culvert, and a 63-car train carrying an assortment of waste materials, some of it toxic, derailed near Deposit, N.Y. Two…
Photo by Chris Hunt By Chris Hunt < p dir="ltr">There’s something primal about dark water shrouded by cypress. The color of strong coffee, these stained swamps of the South nurture mystery and offer refuge to critters that hang on in acid-tinged water filtered through layers of eons-old peat and sand. The gators come to mind…
October 9, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Chris Wood, Trout Unlimited CEO, (571) 274-0601 Nelli Williams, Trout Unlimited Alaska program director, (907) 230-7121 Trout Unlimited sues EPA over removal of Bristol Bay protections Sportsmen argue EPA ignored sound science, prioritized advancement of Pebble mine over fishing industry. ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Trout Unlimited, represented pro bono by Sheppard, Mullin,…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Chris Wood, Trout Unlimited CEO, (571) 274-0601 Nelli Williams, Trout Unlimited Alaska program director, (907) 230-7121 Trout Unlimited sues EPA over removal of Bristol Bay protections Sportsmen argue EPA ignored sound science, prioritized advancement of Pebble mine over fishing industry. ANCHORAGE, AK – Trout Unlimited, represented pro bono by Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton…
Trout Unlimited and our Klamath partners have worked for more than two decades to get to this point in restoring the Klamath River and the fisheries, economies and cultures that depend on it.
5/23/2000 Trout Unlimited Announces Policy Statement on Truckee River Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Recovery Trout Unlimited Announces Policy Statement on Truckee River Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Recovery Contact: 5/23/2000 — — Contacts: David Bobzien, President, Trout Unlimited’s Sagebrush Chapter, Reno: (775) 324-6216 Steve Trafton, Trout Unlimited’s California Policy Coordinator: (510) 528-4772 May 23, 2000. Reno, NevadaTrout Unlimited,…
What do bridges, highways, and rail have to do with wild and native trout and salmon?
Redfish Lake, Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho. Photo by Chris Hunt by Chris Hunt I admit it. I’m biased. I love my home state of Idaho. Home to sprawling sage-brush seas, sky-piercing mountains, old-growth cedar and spruce forests and some of the best trout water on the planet, it’s no accident that I arrived here some…
11/3/2005 November 3, 2005 Contact: Bryan Moore, TU Project Director, (304) 641-2658, bmoore@tu.org or Bob Fulton, Dominion, (304) 627-3200, Robert_E._Fulton@dom.com Trout Unlimited Partners with Dominion to Restore Potomac River Headwater Streams New director hired to oversee collaborative initiative WASHINGTON — The national conservation organization Trout Unlimited (TU) today announced a new watershed restoration initiative in…
Raymond Phares (left) of Circleville, W.Va., traveled to Washington DC in late March to meet with Congressional offices in support of funding for the Chesapeake Bay Program. He was accompanied by Trout Unlimited’s Dustin Wichterman, who oversee’s TU’s restoration efforts in the up per Potomac watershed. By Mark Taylor Trout Unlimited staffers and volunteers converged…
Contact: Amy Wolfe, Director, TU Eastern Abandoned Mine Program570-786-9562, awolfe@tu.org For Immediate Release: Brook Trout Return To Stream After Years of Restoration Fish return after 13 years of work on abandoned mine clean-up. LOCK HAVEN, PA After over a decade of work by Trout Unlimited (TU) repairing damage from abandoned coal mine drainage in the…
While you and your family think through fall outings, we would like to encourage you to take a trip to the Eklutna River valley – we created a family field trip for the Eklutna River watershed so that your family can learn while exploring the area
Trout Unlimited has received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to plant nearly 17,000 trees along coldwater streams in Michigan. The project, “Reducing Runoff in the Rogue River Watershed,” aims to address stormwater runoff that pollutes, erodes and warms the important West Michigan trout fishery by…
