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Roaring Creek Flow Restoration Project

Roaring Creek is a critical perennial tributary in the Lower Entiat River, Upper Columbia Sub-Basin, in Washington. Trout Unlimited aims to improve production of listed steelhead and bull trout in the Entiat basin, and the Roaring Creek Project has multiple objectives to further this goal. Roaring Creek is currently one of the few productive tributaries

Trout Unlimited announces the first Big Wood River Single Fly

For immediate release 7/1/2014 Contact: Chad Chorney, (208) 420-4096, cchorney@tu.org Nancy Bradley, (208) 399-2566, nbradley@tu.org Trout Unlimited announces first Big Wood River Single Fly Proceeds will go to benefit work on one of Idaho’s most iconic rivers Hailey — The first-ever Big Wood River Single Fly event is planned for Aug. 2 – 3 in

Agua Boa Lodge

About us Formerly known as the Royal Amazon Lodge, the Agua Boa Amazon Lodge is located on a small clear water tributary of the Amazon perfectly suited for sight fishing for all three species of peacock bass, arowana, pacu and other Amazon gamefish. The river is flanked by Varzea flood forest and Gallery forests still

Trial Membership Form 2024

Protect The Waters You Love! Your support empowers Trout Unlimited to protect and restore vital freshwater ecosystems, conserve threatened fish species, and advocate for sustainable fisheries management, ensuring healthy rivers and streams for generations to come. With your help, we can protect, restore and reconnect millions of watershed landscapes, thousands of miles of rivers and

Trout Unlimited Applauds Federal Judge’s Decision to Prevent West Virginia Mountaintop Removal Mining Companies From Filling Valleys With Mining Waste

04/01/2009 Trout Unlimited Applauds Federal Judges Decision to Prevent West Virginia Mountaintop Removal Mining Companies From Filling Valleys With Mining Waste April 1, 2009 Contact: Elizabeth Maclin (202) 431-2676 Erin Mooney (571) 331-7970 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited Applauds Federal Judges Decision to Prevent West Virginia Mountaintop Removal Mining Companies From Filling Valleys With Mining

Trout Unlimited Asks Nations Highest Court to Hear Mountaintop Removal Lawsuit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Erin Mooney703-284-9408emooney@tu.org Trout Unlimited Asks Nations Highest Court to Hear Mountaintop Removal Lawsuit U.S. Supreme Court should review West Virginia coal mining waste disposal case Arlington, Va. Trout Unlimited (TU), along with several other groups filed a petition yesterday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a mountaintop removal mining case.

Time to act: Rare opportunity in Congress

Published in Advocacy, Featured

This month in Congress, we have a remarkable opportunity that doesn’t come along very often—a chance to pass major legislation that would put Americans back to work while promising cleaner water, healthier rivers, and rebounding trout and salmon fisheries

Effort improves trout habitat in Delaware watershed

Published in Conservation, Featured

Trout Unlimited staff and Ashokan-Pepacton chapter members assisted NYS Department of Environmental Conservation in completing the East Branch Delaware River Trout Habitat Improvement Project (HIP). The project underway since 2016, was designed to better understand potential challenges facing trout in the watershed and to help develop mitigation and management strategies to reduce potential water quality and movement impacts caused by the Lake Wawaka dam in Halcottsville, NY.  The project, spearheaded by concerned local

TU supports EPA rule governing power plant emissions

Dec. 21, 2011 Contact: Steve Moyer, Vice President for Government Affairs, Trout Unlimited (703) 284-9406 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: TU supports EPA rule governing power plant emissions WASHINGTON, D.C. Trout Unlimited today supported the Environmental Protection Agency’s court-ordered final rule that requires coal- and oil-fired power plants to reduce mercury and other toxic emissions into the

TU members in NY urged to comment on draft trout plan

Published in Conservation

The New York council of Trout Unlimited is urging TU members to comment on the state’s recently released Draft Fisheries Management Plan for Inland Trout Streams.  The plan will provide a detailed road map for protecting trout waters and informing management decisions to improve fishing for trout, among the state’s most sought-after gamefish.  The Department of Environmental Conservation made the plan public on May 29, 2020. The deadline

Our Conservation Approach

Protecting, reconnecting, restoring and sustaining our coldwater resources The best conservation results come from partnerships between landowners, agencies, non-profits, municipalities and other stakeholders. Conservation through collaboration Trout Unlimited believes in an inclusive, collaborative approach to coldwater conservation that integrates the needs and expertise of all stakeholders. We actively seek to build durable partnerships to leverage

Klootchy Creek Logging Road Decommission and Passage Project

Working with a private timber company, Trout Unlimited removed nine culverts which were barriers to passage for Necanicum River wild coho, steelhead, coastal cutthroat and lamprey. Starting at culvert highest in the watershed of the nine targeted for removal, TU removed fill and the culvert while recontouring stream banks to replicate pre-road conditions. From there

Jackson Adopt-a-Trout Program Engages 200 Middle School Students in Science and Conservation

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Tuesday, June 13th, 2017 JACKSON ADOPT-A-TROUT PROGRAM ENGAGES 200 MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION JACKSON, Wyoming – Trout Unlimited (TU), the Jackson Hole Trout Unlimited chapter (JHTU), and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) announced today the successful conclusion of the 2016-2017 school year Adopt-a-Trout Program with a field day at the

TU work pays off: Smith and Cascade-Siskiyou

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Baldface Creek, Smith River headwaters, OR. Photo: California Department of Fish & Wildlife Two announcements last week that a region of the country renowned for its s almon and steelhead fishing and biodiversity would be better protected were good news for anglers and native trout conservationists. On Thursday, January 12, the Department of the Interior

Restore the core

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It looks like an out-of-place slip-and-slide placed into a meadow alongside a tributary of Rock Creek. It is, in fact, a fish screen. Like so many western trout streams, Rock Creek and its tributaries are important sources of irrigation for farmers and ranchers.  In the past, many irrigators would dam a creek, and divert its

TU and partners improve fish passage for spawning cutthroat on Bar BC Spring Creek

December 23, 2019 Contacts: Leslie Steen, Snake River Headwaters Project Manager, Trout Unlimited, 307-699-1022, lsteen@tu.org JACKSON, Wyoming –Trout Unlimited (TU) announced today that on-the-ground implementation for the Bar BC Spring Creek Fish Passage & Channel Restoration Project is currently underway. The project is a collaboration between agency partners and private landowners to improve fish migration into

Forest Jobs and Recreation Act Testimony

On December 17, Chris Wood, the chief operating officer of Trout Unlimited, spoke before a senate subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in support of Senate Bill 1470, also known as the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act. Wood joined a diverse contingent of Montana residents who helped craft the ground-breaking proposal to conserve land and provide

Nestl Agrees to Rework the Environmental Review For its Proposed McCloud Bottling Plant

7/2/2007 Nestl Agrees to Rework the Environmental Review For its Proposed McCloud Bottling Plant FOR IMMEDEATE RELASE (July 2, 2007) Contacts: Brian Johnson, Trout Unlimited, 510-528-4772 Brian Stranko, California Trout, 925-408-6173 Debra Anderson, McCloud Watershed Council, 530-964-2502 Nestl Agrees to Rework the Environmental Review For its Proposed McCloud Bottling Plant In a major victory for