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03/13/2009 Trout Unlimited Supports Bureau of Land Management Decision to Drop Monongahela National Forest from Oil and Gas Lease Auction March 13, 2009 Contact: Elizabeth Maclin (202) 431-2676Erin Mooney (571) 331-7970 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited Supports Bureau of Land Management Decision to Drop Monongahela National Forest from Oil and Gas Lease Auction ARLINGTON, VA—Trout…
After some much-needed good news on the cancer front, I grabbed my cowboy hat and 1-weight and headed out the door. It was time to celebrate and I intended on doing just that by mountain biking and fishing (sometimes combined) on my gorgeous public lands. I pulled into the spot where I hiked out last week and trekked to see what this next section…
Heinrich and Grijalva legislation sets a course for balancing mineral production on public lands with conservation of rivers and lands Contacts: Chris Wood, President and CEO, Trout Unlimited, cwood@tu.org Steve Moyer, Vice President of Government Affairs, Trout Unlimited, steve.moyer@tu.org Corey Fisher, Public Lands Policy Director, Trout Unlimited, corey.fisher@tu.org ARLINGTON, Va.—Mining legislation introduced today by U.S.…
By Amy Wolfe It’s hard to believe that just over 20 years ago I started working with Trout Unlimited in the Kettle Creek watershed in northcentral Pennsylvania. Back then I was hired as the Coordinator for TU’s third Home Rivers Initiative. Fast forward a couple decades and now I enjoy working with many of TU’s…
Learning solid fishing skills on small water helps you with all angling situations
According to the Outdoor Industry Association, 28 percent more Americans went camping in 2020 than during the previous year, and 8.1 million more of us went on a hike. Fishing numbers soared too
Students from the University of Georgia during filming of “Pick the Dang Stuff Up!”. Courtesy photo. University of Georgia Costa 5 Rivers club leads #CleanMyWater campaign A strong conservation ethic runs deep among the students and faculty at the University of Georgia, particularly within the fly-fishing community. So, when Trout Unlimited recently launched our inaugural “Trout Week” celebration…
TU’s climate change survey revealed that nearly 90 percent of TU members believe climate change is happening
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…
This year’s Fly Fishing Film Tour, of which Trout Unlimited is a longtime sponsor, features a unique film made possible in part by a TU grant to filmmaker Sophie Danison. Danison was awarded the grant as part of an effort to showcase the work women do in the field of filmmaking—her new film, ‘Old Friends,…
Several months ago, I noticed a thread on the TU online community that centered around “daughters,” and it really moved me. It moved me, so much, in fact, to think, “Jeez, so, so much of the trout fishing literary tradition is about fathers and sons… grandfathers and sons… we should turn that on its ear.”
Photo by Colin Arisman By Daniel Ritz How Bristol Bay Fly Fishing & Guide Academy graduates are redefining fly-fishing travel culture in Alaska. Rounding a blind bend in the Brooks River, the nearly 900-pound brown bear surprises us as it sits haunches deep, ripping into the belly of a bright red 8-to-10 pound Sockeye salmon…
Contact: Howard Kern, (805) 405-9635 Contact: Sam Davidson, (831) 235-2542 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Trout Unlimited concerned over federal decision not to list California golden trout; applauds success of Golden Trout Restoration Project Los Angeles Trout Unlimited, America’s oldest and largest coldwater fisheries conservation group, said today’s determination by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that…
/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/blog/sky-blue-brown-092817.jpg Pennsylvania is a fly angler’s state. And Rick Nyles is a fly angler – and a darn good one. Rick owns Sky Blue Outfitters in Fleetwood, Penn., and he’s Gold Level Trout Unlimited Business member who has been guiding all over the Keystone State on some of its best waters for 20 years. And…
It’s been over a month since we released our Think Tank brook trout into the Cross River, and we are finding that they have new neighbors moving in: beavers! Evidence of the beavers can be seen all along the stream—from dams to lodges, chewed down trees to flooded plains. Beavers have long been known to be ecosystem engineers and drastically change the stream in many ways. The fur trade and the trapping…
Farm Bill conservation programs actually fund a significant amount of coldwater conservation across the country, and Trout Unlimited leverages several Farm Bill programs to improve and restore coldwater streams for trout, salmon, and people.
By Rick Nyles I’m fortunate to live in Pennsylvania, second only to Alaska in miles of running water. For a trout angler and guide such as myself, my home state provides me a chance to fish my favorite waters and search for new destinations. Yet while thousands of Pennsylvania’s streams support healthy populations of wild…
Roadless Areas Defending America’s Sporting Lands ROADLESS FOR A REASON The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule prohibits new road construction and industrial logging on 58.5 million acres of multiple-use public lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service across 39 states. These unroaded portions of our National Forests provide some of the best fish and wildlife habitat and hunting…
With Clean Water Act protections in jeopardy, on-the-ground restoration is more vital than ever
