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Grays and Chinook Rivers designated Wild Steelhead Gene Banks

Agency designation will help promote healthy, fishable populations of wild steelhead for anglers CONTACT: Nick Chambers / Washington Organizer for Trout Unlimited’s Wild Steelhead Initiative nchambers@tu.org / (541) 908-1329 (March 16, 2016) Seattle, Wash. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced their most recent Wild Steelhead Gene Bank designation which will be situated on

Naxiyam Wana and the Uniter

Published in Snake River dams

Shannon Wheeler, Vice-Chairman of the Nez Perce Tribe envisions this not as past tense, but future. He, as with other leaders of tribal nations in the region, see the return of the Snake River system to a semblance of its former self as essential to the health of the entire Pacific Northwest and its residents. Wheeler wants

Voices from the River: The plight of California salmon

Published in Voices from the river

By Sam Davidson I came across a video recently, on sockeye salmon migrating to the spawn in the Lake Iliamna area in Alaska. The productivity of this region for salmon is nothing short of amazing—and makes the proposed Pebble Mine, looming like the guillotine over the entire Bristol Bay ecosystem, that much more troubling. Watching

WorldCast Anglers stands with TU on Lower Snake proposal

Published in TU Business

“The headwaters of the Snake are our home waters,” said Dawkins. “We care passionately about this river from its high country beginnings all the way to the Pacific Ocean. The loss of salmon and steelhead runs in this iconic American river would be a tragedy for us all.”

Broad coalition urges Northwest governors to action on salmon, steelhead

Published in Conservation, Fishing, steelhead, TROUT Magazine

Editor’s note: The following was delivered today to Govs. Kate Brown (Ore.), Steve Bullock (Mont.), Jay Inslee (Wash.) and Brad Little (Idaho) from a coalition power companies, conservation groups, the transportation sector and community utility coops. Feb. 24, 2020 Dear Governors Brown, Bullock, Inslee and Little: The debate over the management and impacts of the

TU calls for answers on Big Thompson fish kill

TROUT UNLIMITED RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 27, 2016 Contact: David Nickum, dnickum@tu.org, (720) 581-8589 Randy Scholfield, rscholfield@tu.org, (720) 375-3961 Trout Unlimited calls for accountability in Big Thompson fish kill Asks: How did this happen, and how can it be prevented from happening again? (DENVER) Trout Unlimited today called for answers and accountability in the

No Room for Mistakes on New York’s Upper Delaware River

Published in Uncategorized

National Park Service photo. By Chris Wood and Jeff Skelding It could have been far worse. The Up per Delaware River dodged a bullet last week when heavy rains and flooding washed out a railroad culvert, and a 63-car train carrying an assortment of waste materials, some of it toxic, derailed near Deposit, N.Y. Two

A Native Odyssey – Apache trout in Arizona

Published in Uncategorized

Editor’s Note: Five students from the TU Costa 5 Rivers Outreach Program have embarked on a once-in a-lifetime journey in pursuit of 16 native trout species, all on public lands. With support from the U.S. Forest Service, Costa Sunglasses, Simms Fishing Products, Fishpond and Post Fly Box, these students will tell the stories of our

TU advocacy is grounded in science

Published in Science, Featured, Government Affairs

“In lobbying advocacy, you have just a minute or two to make a point. If you can’t do it effectively in that time you are done and out,” said Steve Moyer, Vice President of Government Affairs for Trout Unlimited. “The TU Science team gives us the opportunity to make that first meeting count by providing credible, accurate and effective messaging. I’ve seen it over and over, particularly with Waters of the United States.”

Bear Basin Adventures Redux

Published in TROUT Magazine, Community, Fishing, TU Business

Once in a while, we all make mistakes. I make a lot of them. And I made one in the summer issue of TROUT. My friends Heath and Sarah Woltman kindly allowed me to use a photo taken by Pat Lang for a short piece in the Pocket Water section. I neglected to credit Pat

Take Action for Upper Delaware

Published in Uncategorized

By David Kinney Answering calls for action to protect the Delaware River and its prized wild trout fishery from extreme low flows this summer, New York City agreed today to voluntarily boost releases from its water supply reservoirs. This is a welcome step back from the brink. Officials from the city and the Delaware River

The Fly Fishing Shop

Celebrating 42 Years in Business! The Fly Fishing Shop was founded in 1981 by Patty Barnes and Mark Bachmann. Our guide service is located with easy access to many fine trout, steelhead and salmon rivers. The surrounding rivers and lakes drain into the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean. Our home water is the Sandy

A case of mistaken identity

Published in Travel

It was the stuff of angling dreams yet, until a few short days prior, I wouldn’t have even confidently been able to identify a native interior redband in an underwater lineup. As I reached the highest point on the stream that I was comfortable climbing, my sandaled feet bloodied and blistered, I pondered what a shame that was. 

Federal Government Does Right By the Klamath?Attention Turns to PacifiCorp

1/30/2007 Federal Government Does Right By the Klamath?Attention Turns to PacifiCorp Jan. 30, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Steve Rothert, American Rivers, 530-277-0448 Curtis Knight, California Trout, 530-859-1872 Chuck Bonham, Trout Unlimited, 510-528-4164 Kelly Catlett, Friends of the River, 916-442-3155, ext 223 Federal Government Does Right By the KlamathAttention Turns to PacifiCorp Sacramento, CA Today

Trout Week

Take Action STAND UP FOR THE SNAKE The Snake River Basin provides more than 50 percent of salmon and steelhead habitat in the lower 48. But its fisheries are in rapid decline, and unless the lower river dams are removed, they face extinction. Act now to help free the Snake. Take Action Tell Congress… Time