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Trout Unlimited Supports Sen. Mark Udalls Good Samaritan Bill

For Immediate Release Contact: Chris Wood, Chief Operating Officer (703) 284-9403 Trout Unlimited Supports Sen. Mark Udalls Good Samaritan Bill Bill increases the ability for groups to clean up abandoned hard rock mines ARLINGTON, VA.–Trout Unlimited (TU) commends Colorado Sen. Mark Udall for his bill introduced today, The Good Samaritan Cleanup of Abandoned Hardrock Mines

What role does climate change play in the debate over removing the four Lower Snake dams?

The data show conclusively that the Pacific Northwest’s climate is warming. The Snake River basin will experience hotter temperatures in the summer, which will make water conditions in the lower Snake River more problematic than they are at present.  High water temperatures in the Snake under current conditions can take a devastating toll. In 2015,

TU Files Protest of Colorado Energy Lease Sale

01/29/2009 TU Files Protest of Colorado Energy Lease Sale January 29, 2009 Contact: Corey Fisher, (406) 721-1002 David Nickum, (303) 440-2937 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: TU Files Protest of Colorado Energy Lease SaleProposed development threatens Colorado River cutthroat trout habitat DENVER On Wednesday, Trout Unlimited filed an official protest of a proposed Bureau of Land Management

Attend School of Trout, become a piscatorial professor

Published in Uncategorized

Photo by Tim Romano I’m very excited, humbled and honored to have been invited to take part in a new endeavor called the “School of Trout.” Guide, author, and Conservation Hawks lead man Todd Tanner is the School of Trout’s creator and headmaster. It’s a weeklong school that will allow students to dive into the

TU's Malloch Testifies Before Congressional Subcommittee on Bureau of Reclamation Title Transfers

3/24/2004 TU’s Malloch Testifies Before Congressional Subcommittee on Bureau of Reclamation Title Transfers TU’s Malloch Testifies Before Congressional Subcommittee on Bureau of Reclamation Title Transfers Contact: Steven Malloch Counsel, Western Water Project Trout Unlimited 206.818.0482 3/24/2004 — Washington — Steven Malloch, Western Water Project Counsel for the national conservation organization Trout Unlimited (TU), today offered

Are there “good” dams and “bad” dams?

Published in Uncategorized, Dam Removal

We just released an issue of TROUT magazine that focuses most of its 100 pages on the need to remove four dams from the Lower Snake River.  That was an easy call for me as editor because I think removal of the Lower Snake dams, thus giving a huge percentage of steelhead and salmon in the

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

Fish and fire in the West

Published in TROUT Magazine, Featured

In June 2013, researcher and fisheries biologist Ashley Rust and her family were at their family cabin near Creede, Colo., when an afternoon rainstorm—a frequent occurrence in the San Juans at that time of year—worked through the area

Voices from the River: Days behind the oars

Published in Voices from the river

By Chris Hunt There’s a fine line between fishing from a drift boat and fishing from a source of chaos. The first time I rowed a drift boat, I damn near put it into the bridge abutment just above Ashton Dam on the Henry’s Fork while my two passengers—one of whom owned the boat—watched helplessly

The lowly whitefish

Published in Fishing, Conservation, TROUT Magazine

The mountain whitefish native to the northwest U.S. There’s trout water, and then there’s trout water that also holds mountain whitefish. The latter is likely healthier.  Whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni) are often greeted by anglers with the same enthusiasm they might afford a creek chub or a sucker. The slightly downturned snout may not be as

Dave Hettinger Outfitting – wild country, big fish

Published in Community

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.