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Sign up for TROUT Weekly, Trout Unlimited’s national newsletter, and receive the best storytelling on the people making our rivers and streams cleaner and our trout and salmon fisheries stronger—now and for future generations. Most every Friday, we take you into the field, from California and Colorado to Michigan and Pennsylvania, introduce you to people…
3/20/2006 Trout Unlimited protests Wyoming Range lease sale March 20, 2006 Contact: Tom Reed, (406) 522-7291 ext. 104, treed@tu.org; Cathy Purves, (307) 332-6700, cpurves@tu.org Trout Unlimited protests Wyoming Range lease sale Natural gas development would impact critical native trout and big-game habitat and impact the local recreation economy JACKSONA natural gas lease sale planned next…
3/30/2006 TU announces expansion of its abandoned mine cleanup efforts across the West March 30, 2006 Contact: Chris Wood, TU Vice President for Conservation, (571) 274-0601 Ted Fitzgerald, TU American Fork Canyon Project Manager, (801) 465-9949 Chris Hunt, PLI Communications Director, (208) 552-0891 x 714 TU announces expansion of its abandoned mine cleanup efforts across…
10/13/2000 $2 Million in Whirling Disease Research Signed Into Law $2 Million in Whirling Disease Research Signed Into Law TU Praises Montana Congressional Delegation Contact: 10/13/2000 — — Contact: Steve Moyer, Vice President for Conservation Programs, Trout Unlimited, (703) 284-9406 October 13, 2000. Arlington, VA . . . Two million dollars in crucial whirling disease…
The choice is now between those of us willing to work together to do big things, and those who refuse even to try.
ou new to this game there are certain sections of certain rivers, during certain times that you are legally not allowed to float without a permit. Rivers like the Yampa, Green, Salmon, Snake, Colorado, Smith, and the list goes on…
Goals In 2013 TU partnered with a landowner to remove a 500-foot section of concrete rip-rap on a popular recreational stretch of the Gunnison River. The armored bank was causing channel incision, and depositing sediment in undesirable locations downstream. Lack of vegetative cover and in-channel refuge increased trout susceptibility to low flows and increased water…
Patience is perhaps the most elusive virtue—instant gratification, especially these days, is easier to attain. And it’s no different for fly fishers. Finding a good stretch of water to fish isn’t all that hard, but approaching it correctly, and giving yourself the best opportunity to catch not just one fish, but several fish, can prove…
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 18 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…
6/18/2001 Conservation Groups File Suit to Save Yuba River Salmon and Steelhead Conservation Groups File Suit to Save Yuba River Salmon and Steelhead State Water Resources Control Board leaves no option but the courts in efforts Contact: 6/18/2001 — — Monday, June 18, 2001 ALBANY, CALIF. The nations largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization today joined…
4/01/2005 NEWS RELEASE Embargoed until: 1:00 p.m. CST, April 1, 2005 For more information: “Duke” Welter 715-579-7538 Laura Hewitt 608-250-3534 Steve Kinsella 651-647-1545 TROUT UNLIMITED CALLS FOR RESTORATION OF THE MIDWEST’S DRIFTLESS AREA Minneapolis, MN – A wide scale restoration of the streams and rivers of the Midwest’s Driftless Area will bring enormous environmental and…
Why you don’t want to wade onto icy river edges during the thaw.
12/13/2001 Trout Unlimited Applauds Introduction Of Pacific Salmon Recovery Act Trout Unlimited Applauds Introduction Of Pacific Salmon Recovery Act Contact: Jeff Curtis, TU Western Conservation Director: 503.827.5700 x.11 12/13/2001 — PORTLAND, ORE. — Officials with Trout Unlimited, the nations leading trout and salmon conservation organization, today applauded the introduction by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) of…
When the dams were built it was thought that hatcheries would produce “replacement” salmon and steelhead to make up for the loss of natural production. Since then, our scientific understanding of what hatcheries can and can’t do has grown by leaps and bounds. Today, we now know definitively that hatcheries can’t substitute for wild salmon…
Using a combination of videos, contactless equipment drop-off programs, mentor groups, and new methods for administering the program, STREAM Girls continues, safely.
The trick to knowing what you’re going to catch before you catch it, is knowing what lives in the river. Of course. Some people, however, have dialed it in a bit more. For example, they know the rainbows like the riffles in certain places on the Colorado River, whereas the browns hug the banks and…
Near the dramatic jagged peaks of the Teton mountains sits Jackson Lake Dam.
The thin, cool air and the end of high mountain wildflower season were calling my name.
Some things aren’t meant to last a lifetime. It was a good run of nearly six years, but I think it’s time to part ways with an old friend.
I’m not a superstitious person but this raft trailer is cursed. I’m sure of it which is why I’ve chosen to cut it loose on the open market.
Refresh. Refresh. Refresh. You’d think I was checking the scores on game seven of the World Series, but I wasn’t