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Best beer … for the fish?

Published in Uncategorized

We had a pretty lively social media discussion on favorite fishing beers recently—most folks took it in the spirit for which it was intended. But how about what beers are actually best for the fish? Trout Unlimited is fortunate to partner with several breweries across the country—businesses that give a share of their profits to…

Fish northwest Montana with Wild Montana Anglers

Published in Community, TU Business

Martin City, Mont. Can you point to it on a map? Yeah, when Mark Fuller’s Wild Montana Anglers first joined as a TU Business member, I couldn’t either. It’s north of Kalispell and east of Columbia Falls, on the west slope of the Rockies. And it’s a wonderful place for the fly angler. Mark Fuller…

The True Cast: It’s all about what happens next

Published in The True Cast, Trout Talk

It’s been a tough few weeks for people who care about fishing and wild places. Ouch. As a lifelong angler, it stinks when things that should, in my mind, be “cultural” issues, get sucked into the political sausage factory. My heart breaks for the many people who poured their souls into efforts meant to ensure…

TU buying water right on Rogue River tributary

Published in Western Water and Habitat Program

An historic mill, and its former owner, are playing a key role in a collaborative effort to save native fish in an important Rogue River tributary. This campaign reached a milestone recently with a formal agreement to sell the mill’s historic water right to Trout Unlimited, with two years to raise the funding.

It’s World Water Day. What does that mean to you?

Published in Uncategorized, Advocacy

On World Water Day, we ask ourselves not just what water means to us, but “What we can do to make it better, cleaner and more available in our communities and environment?” Learn more about the impacts of abandoned mine pollution on communities across the United States. And then check out this video to learn…

Go higher to beat the heat and catch wild trout

Published in Trout Talk

Brook trout are wild in many western high-country streams. When water temperatures start to rise in the summer, most of us know to stop fishing. And if you didn’t know before, you do now. Rivers across Colorado have voluntary closures and hoot owl restrictions have been in place in Montana for most of the summer.…

Driftless Area Restoration Effort NLC Workgroup

The Trout Unlimited Driftless Area Restoration Effort (TUDARE) was started by Trout Unlimited volunteers to expand capacity for stream restoration projects in the unglaciated region of the Upper Mississippi River Basin in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. TUDARE works to bring together partners from nonprofit conservation groups, community groups, schools, federal, state, and other agencies…

TU helping with Boardman Dam removal in Michigan

Published in Uncategorized

Trout Unlimited has been acting as a sub-contractor to provide construction oversight of the Boardman Dam Removal river restoration project in Traverse City, Mich., an effort that will continue through early 2018. The Boardman Dam, originally constructed in 1894 as a hydropower generation dam, had no fish passage capabilities. The project is one of three…

Public lands package passes House

Published in Conservation, From the field

Today, the House of Representatives passed the Protecting America’s Wilderness Act (H.R. 803). Trout Unlimited strongly supports this legislation, as it will better conserve and restore public lands, watersheds and coldwater fisheries in four Western states and support the country’s commitment to countering the impacts of climate change by protecting at least 30 percent of…

20 years of protection

Published in Advocacy

Colorado’s Thompson Divide sees a mining development moratorium to the high praise of anglers

Hard work has payoffs

Published in Voices from the river, Conservation

I recently went out with the Five Rivers TU chapter in Durango, Colo., to help plant willows along the banks of the Hermosa Creek. (Full disclosure: I’m on the board of the chapter). Closing in on the final steps, I couldn’t wait to get out there to see all the work completed so far and to help with the finishing efforts.  …

Fishing with, and learning from, Sharon

Published in From the President

There are so many unsung women responsible for making Trout Unlimited what it is today. In honor of Women’s History Month, I want to celebrate one woman who has made an outsized impact on coldwater conservation and me, personally, Sharon Lance.