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Alaska Holiday High School fly tying material drive

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The egg sucking leech, a staple for every Alaskan’s fly box – Photo: Jenny Weis This holiday season give the gift of learning, opportunity and fly fishing to Alaska High School Students! For the past 8 years Tim Lussow, a biology teacher at Colony High School, has helped expose the world of fly fishing to

Conservation leader Emily Olsen joins Trout Unlimited as Vice President for Rocky Mountain Region

Olsen will lead TU’s trout and salmon conservation, habitat restoration, and advocacy programs in the Rockies.  Contacts:  ARLINGTON, Va.— Conservation leader Emily Olsen has joined Trout Unlimited as Vice President for the Rocky Mountain Region, the organization announced this week. Based outside Denver, Olsen will lead TU’s coldwater conservation, habitat restoration, and advocacy programs in

Fishing matters

Published in Community, From the President

City Catch kids in Baltimore. Lately, when I am in town, I’ve taken to starting my mornings at Fletchers boathouse. I’ll row up or downstream for an hour with a strung fly rod. If I see a suspended gar, or a rolling carp, I’ll stop and cast.  Even with the outing, I am at the

The salmon ballot initiative everyone in Alaska is talking about

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Bristol Bay sockeye. Photo by FlyOut Media By: Nelli Williams When Alaskans go to the polls in November we will have the opportunity to vote on a ballot measure 1 called, “An Act providing for protection of wild salmon and fish and wildlife habitat.” You may have already heard of this as the measure being

TU Five Rivers Odyssey: Running on empty

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Editor’s note: Building off the success of last year’s Native Odyssey campaign, Trout Unlimited sent four of our brightest college club leaders in the TU Costa 5 Rivers Program to explore the home of the world’s largest runs of wild salmon: Alaska. These students are exploring the Kenai Peninsula, Bristol Bay and the Tongass National

Native Odyssey: Volunteering with Stream Watch on Alaska’s Russian River

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Editor’s note: Building off the success of last year’s Native Odyssey campaign, Trout Unlimited is sending four of our brightest college club leaders in the TU Costa 5 Rivers Program to explore the home of the world’s largest runs of wild salmon: Alaska. Starting July 5, these students will explore the Kenai Peninsula, Bristol Bay

Trout Unlimited Calls for More Protections for Salmon, Steelhead and Trout in Tongass Plan Revision

1/12/2007 Trout Unlimited Calls for More Protections for Salmon, Steelhead and Trout in Tongass Plan Revision Jan. 12, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tim Bristol at 907-321-3291 or Tbristol@tu.org Trout Unlimited Calls for More Protections for Salmon, Steelhead and Trout in Tongass Plan Revision Trout Unlimited, North Americas largest cold water fisheries conservation organization today

Why Alaska is everyone’s backyard

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By David Lisi No one around you, you’re in a pristine river setting, fishing for wild, native fish. This is THE magical, nearly unattainable goal for most fly fishermen. Rivers with Brown Bears bounding through the water chasing spawning salmon as you pluck your tenth 20″ wild rainbow trout from their feeding lanes or hook

Thomas Rhett × Chaco

At Trout Unlimited, we make rivers fit for adventure. Inspired by our trips on the water with the ones we love, we roll up our sleeves in our local communities to fix rivers. We bring people together to care for and recover our streams so our children can experience the fun of cold, clean water

Trout Unlimited Sets the Record straight with Sealaska Corporation and Senator Murkowski

Contact:Tim Bristol, Trout Unlimited, (907) 321-3291Mark Kaelke, Trout Unlimited, (907) 321-4464 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited Sets the Record straight with Sealaska Corporation and Senator Murkowski TU Calls for Strong Leadership on Meaningful Conservation Measures Juneau, Alaska Today, Trout Unlimited, the nation’s oldest and largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization, announced that contrary to a misleading

Trout Unlimited Supports Legislation to Address Virus Outbreak in Pacific Salmon

Contact: Paula Dobbyn, Trout Unlimited, Alaska Program, Director of Communications, 907-230-1513 or pdobbyn@tu.org For Immediate Release Alaska Director Praises Senators for Quick Action to Protect Wild Salmon Juneau, Alaska Trout Unlimited today applauded quick action taken by Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.,) Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska,) and Mark Begich (D-Alaska) to address the outbreak of infectious salmon

Pigeons, persistence and hope

Published in From the President, TROUT Magazine

I recently read an essay where a priest on a mission to Guatemala discovered that artists from the village painted museum-quality artwork on the inside walls of a bell-tower—a place where only pigeons would see them. The story reminded me of Trout Unlimited’s work—behind the scenes, often unnoticed, complicated, hard, and, ultimately, beautiful.   What a year. We reckoned with racial injustice as a nation, and looked inward to the fact that we need to become

Pacific Salmon Crisis: Seeking Shared Solutions

05/08/2008 Pacific Salmon Crisis: Seeking Shared Solutions FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Brian Johnson, Trout Unlimited: (415) 385-0796 Paul Johnson, Monterey Fish Market: (510) 525-0999 Michael Brunson: Michel-Schlumberger Wine Estate: (707) 433-7427 x16 Kirk Hardcastle: Taku River Reds (AK): (808) 281-4090 Pacific Salmon Crisis: Seeking Shared Solutions CA Salmon Businesses, Chefs, Fishermen, Vintners & Conservation Groups

EPA final rule unravels Clean Water Act protections 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  01/23/2020  Contact:  Steve Moyer, steve.moyer@tu.org, (571) 274-0593 Vice President of Government Affairs  Shauna Stephenson, shauna.stephenson@tu.org (307) 757-7861 National Communications Director  **For high resolution state-specific maps or images, please contact Shauna Stephenson**  The Environmental Protection Agency announced today it is finalizing a rule that will drop protections for millions of miles of streams and millions of acres of wetlands, putting watersheds at

Video spotlight: Arctic Char in Baffin Bay

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The Arctic char of Nunavut, the northern-most Canadian territory that lies just west of Greenland across Baffin Bay, are amazing fish. They cruise into rivers and streams running into the Arctic Ocean on tidal flows starting in the summer, and they are aggressive eaters. In the fall, just like their char cousins, the Dolly Varden,

Walking the Talk

Published in Conservation

Photo by Robin Kadet Petey jumped in my lap within moments of sitting down. Phil Monahan rescued the little dog when he found him walking alone down a highway. A few things stand out about the Orvis offices in Manchester, Vermont. First, as Petey demonstrated, their offices are very pet-friendly.Second, their street address is “Conservation