A Steelhead Story: The Legacy of Bill McMillan
A new short film celebrates Bill McMillan’s commitment to citizen science and the Skagit River’s wild steelhead
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Voices from the River: Working for trout in West Virginia
By Jessica Bryzek I recently started working with Trout Unlimited as the West Virginia Volunteer Water Quality and Stream Restoration Coordinator. Out of all the places I have worked, I have never felt so spoiled as I do here in Thomas, West Virginia. Surrounded by miles of primitive trails, wild mountain streams, and blue forests,…
Update on efforts to protect Southeast Alaska rivers
Photo from “Chasing Wild” the new film featuring the Alaska-B.C. transboundary mining issue. Click here to watch the film! By: Erin Heist This time of year in Southeast Alaska the weeks are full of harvesting, processing, exploring, fishing and basking in the lush (unseasonably dry and warm!), summer beauty as we prepare for the winter…
Bringing back the Big Wood
Eroding banks along the Bridge to Bridge project area By Chris Wood The sign behind the two-person Trout Unlimited office in Hailey, Idaho, reads, “Parking for Trout Unlimited only. If towed, call Dick York Towing.” It is an inside-Hailey joke as Keri York’s Dad ran Dick York Towing—the only towing business in the Big Wood…
OWAA honors writer for essay on Lake Superior?s coaster brook trout
6/20/2006 OWAA honors writer for essay on Lake Superior?s coaster brook trout June 20, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Contact: Laura Hewitt, (608) 250-3534 OWAA honors writer for essay on Lake Superiors coaster brook trout Eric Hansen receives Excellence in Craft award LAKE CHARLES, La.Thanks to his efforts to publicize the plight of the few…
Adios, San Clemente Dam
By Tim Frahm When steelhead and tractors occupy the same piece of stream, tractors typically win… and steelhead don’t. Sometimes, however, we need to stand up and cheer when we find big excavators, dirt trucks and earth-movers driving up and down in a riverbed. Such a time is now for the Carmel River, one of…
30 Great Places: North Umpqua
Region: Pacific NorthwestActivities: FishingSpecies: Steelhead Where: The North Umpqua flows 110 miles from its headwaters in the Cascade Mountains (near Crater Lake National Park) to its confluence with the mainstem Umpqua west of Roseburg, in southwest Oregon. Of particular interest is the river’s fly-fishing-only water, beginning near Rock Creek and continuing 31 miles upstream. Why:…
30 Great Places: North Umpqua
Region: Pacific NorthwestActivities: FishingSpecies: Steelhead Where: The North Umpqua flows 110 miles from its headwaters in the Cascade Mountains (near Crater Lake National Park) to its confluence with the mainstem Umpqua west of Roseburg, in southwest Oregon. Of particular interest is the river’s fly-fishing-only water, beginning near Rock Creek and continuing 31 miles upstream. Why:…
Remembering Russell Chatham
Editor’s Note: Few people have had more influence on steelhead fishing and its proponents than author and artist Russell Chatham, who passed away recently. Chatham’s writing, painting, and appearance in films helped promote both the art and science of fly fishing for steelhead and the growing sense of loss as steelhead runs in coastal streams…
Trout Unlimited Announces Succession Plan
For Immediate Release: Contact: Erin Mooney, National Press Secretary (703) 284-9408, emooney@tu.org Trout Unlimited Announces Succession Plan Chris Wood named CEO of nations largest coldwater conservation organization Arlington, Va.–Trout Unlimited (TU), the nation’s leading coldwater fisheries conservation organization, announced that Chris Wood, currently TU’s Chief Operating Officer, will become Chief Executive Officer on February 1.…
Colorado TU Receives $5,000 Grant to Restore Roan Plateau
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Erin Mooney, (703) 284-9408, TU National Press Secretary Colorado TU Receives $5,000 Grant to Restore Roan Plateau Denver, Colo.– Trout Unlimited (TU), the nations oldest and largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization, today awarded a $5,000 Embrace-A-Stream grant to Colorado Trout Unlimited, its state council in Colorado. The council and its chapters…
TU helping to deploy Mayfly Sensor Stations
By Jake Lemon Scientists and anglers throughout the country rely on USGS gaging stations for real-time streamflow and water quality data. Often these stations are located near the mouth of larger rivers forcing data users to extrapolate to understand what is happing in smaller coldwater trout streams. Now, rapidly emerging technologies in open-source electronics are allowing volunteer groups to collect valuable real-time…
Rivers connect people
I’m in Little Rock, Ark., this week for the Outdoor Writers Association of America conference. Our hotel is situated right on the banks of what looks to be an angry Arkansas River. Years ago, I worked as an editor and reporter for a couple of small newspapers about 1,000 miles away, near the headwaters of…
Why do we care about native trout?
“Because native trout have adapted over centuries and millennia in specific environments, they are, in many cases, more likely to survive the extremes of those places. Having passed through the crucible of a specific system’s cycles of drought, flood, and wildfire a native trout species may be more hardy than non-native fish.”
Dave Hettinger Outfitting – wild country, big fish
We set out to go on the trip of a lifetime and through TU, Hettinger Outfitting, and all those that help preserve the beautiful wilderness of the Bridger-Teton we definitely succeeded. But the boys aren’t calling this one our last…we’re making trips like these a tradition.
Trout Unlimited and Partners Receive Funding for Restoration in Midwest’s Driftless Area
12/19/2005 December 19, 2005 Contact: Duke Welter, (715) 579-7538 or Laura Hewitt, (608) 250-3534, lhewitt@tu.org Trout Unlimited and Partners Receive Funding for Restoration in Midwests Driftless Area WASHINGTON, D.C.Trout Unlimited and state partners received a Multistate Conservation Grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services Sport Fish Restoration Fund in early December to support the…
Governors' Salmon Plan a Positive Step, But Still Falls Short
7/27/2000 Governors’ Salmon Plan a Positive Step, But Still Falls Short Governors’ Salmon Plan a Positive Step, But Still Falls Short Contact: 7/27/2000 — — Contact: *Jeff Curtis, TU Western Conservation Director: 503-827-5700; 503-351-2492 (cell) *Alan Moore, TU Western Communications Coordinator: 503-827-5700; 503-319-2210 (cell) *Maggie Lockwood, TU Director of Press Relations: 703-284-9425 July 25, 2000.…
Forest Service honors Eastern Home Rivers Initiative in WV with national award
Trout Unlimited’s Gary Berti (center) accepts the U.S. Forest Service Volunteer & Services regional award from Clyde Thompson (left), Monongahela National Forest supervisor, and Mike Owen, the forest’s Watershed Program manager. The Forest Service recently announced that TU had been chosen from among regional honorees as the national award winner. Trout Unlimited’s Eastern Home Rivers…
Hoback drilling plan to get additional study
Contact: Steven Brutger, Trout Unlimited, (307) 438-2596 Cathy Purves, Trout Unlimited, (307) 349-2559 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hoback drilling plan to get additional study Forest Service gives additional review after extensive comments from public Lander, Wyo. After a massive outpouring of comments, a plan put forth by the Houston-based Plains Exploration and Production Company will get…
New Mexico anglers stand behind new clean water rule
May 28, 2014 Contact: Chris Wood, President and CEO, Trout Unlimited, (703) 284-9403, cwood@tu.org Art Vollmer, chair of TUs New Mexico council, (505) 474-1495, fish4rgct@gmail.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: New Mexico anglers stand behind new clean water rule WASHINGTON, D.C.Anglers in New Mexico support a new rule announced yesterday that restores protections for Americas headwater streams…