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Questions and Answers About the Extinction Clock Study

7/9/1999 Questions and Answers About the Extinction Clock Study Questions and Answers About the Extinction Clock Study Contact: 7/9/1999 — — Why did Trout Unlimited sponsor this study? One of the recurring messages circulating in the region is that “more study is needed” before the big decisions on salmon restoration, such as the proposed partial…

Hands-On, Volunteer Conservation Program Celebrates 25 Years of Rescuing Rivers

7/24/2000 Hands-On, Volunteer Conservation Program Celebrates 25 Years of Rescuing Rivers Hands-On, Volunteer Conservation Program Celebrates 25 Years of Rescuing Rivers Trout Unlimited’s 2000 Embrace-A-Stream Grants Fund 47 Stream Recovery Projects Contact: 7/24/2000 — — Washington, D.C.. Trout Unlimited, the nation’s leading coldwater conservation organization, today announced recipients of the 2000 Embrace-A-Stream (EAS) grants, distributing…

Tailwaters Workgroup Resources

The Tailwaters Workgroup of the National Leadership Council serves to help TU volunteers advocate for salmonid populations in tailwater fisheries. The workgroup explores issues, challenges and threats to tailwater fisheries and recommends direction and actions for TU staff and volunteers to take to advocate for these waters. The following resources are designed to help your…

Trout Unlimited Applauds Salmon Planning Act

7/19/2001 Trout Unlimited Applauds Salmon Planning Act Trout Unlimited Applauds Salmon Planning Act Contact: 7/19/2001 — — JULY 19, 2001 (PORTLAND, ORE.) Trout Unlimited, the nations largest trout and salmon conservation organization, today voiced its support for a bi-partisan bill introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives calling for planning and actions necessary to recover…

Trout Unlimited Takes Exception to NSAA Environmental Charter for Refusal to Protect Fisheries from Snowmaking

6/19/2000 Trout Unlimited Takes Exception to NSAA Environmental Charter for Refusal to Protect Fisheries from Snowmaking Trout Unlimited Takes Exception to NSAA Environmental Charter for Refusal to Protect Fisheries from Snowmaking Contact: 6/19/2000 — — Contact: Melinda Kassen, Colorado Western Water Project, Trout Unlimited, (303) 440 2937 Maggie Lockwood, Press Relations Director, Trout Unlimited, (703)…

The experience matters … maybe more than the fishing

Published in Voices from the river

By Jim Aylsworth Corey, an old friend from college, has become a wise philosopher. He thinks life is all about “experiences” and how he wants more of them.   This adventure to Colorado was my sixth attempt to time my trip for the famous Mother’s Day caddis hatch on the Arkansas River. The moment the Ark…

TU Rocky Mountain Flycasters Receive $1,000 Grant to Start Trout in Classroom Program

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Erin Mooney, (703) 284-9408, TU National Press Secretary TU Rocky Mountain Flycasters Receive $1,000 Grant to Start Trout in Classroom Program Fort Collins, Colo. — Trout Unlimited (TU), the nation’s oldest and largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization, today awarded a $1,000 Embrace-A-Stream grant to its Rocky Mountain Flycasters Chapter in Fort…

Hot Weather in Western States Threatens Trout Survival

7/23/08 Hot Weather in Western States Threatens Trout Survival FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jessica Lass, 310/434-2317 or 202/468-6718 (cell) Hot Weather in Western States Threatens Trout SurvivalShrinking cold-water habitat jeopardizes billion dollar recreational fishing industry Helena, MT (July 23, 2008) Rivers and streams across the West are getting hotter and drier, making it increasingly difficult…

Into the desert

Editor’s note: The TU Costa 5 Rivers Program sent a handful of college students to the Columbia River basin to fish and study the challenges facing the drainage. Leaving the coniferous forests of Mt. Rainier, the Odyssey crew traveled to the semi-arid desert region of eastern Oregon where we set out to fish the Owyhee…

House of Rep. Continuing Resolution Spending Bill Would Discontinue Cooperative Watershed Conservation Efforts Nationwide

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Erin Mooney, TU National Press Secretary (571) 331-7970 House of Rep. Continuing Resolution Spending Bill Would Discontinue Cooperative Watershed Conservation Efforts Nationwide Bill attacks Clean Water Act, public land management, watershed restoration and conservation funding. Arlington, Va.– Trout Unlimited (TU) strongly opposes HR 1, a bill to fund the federal government…

Teach the kids to row their own watercraft

Published in Boats, Featured

We all want our kids to learn the river from their own perspective and to safely make mistakes and corrections while the consequences are low. The best way to do that for us was to let them paddle their own watercraft

Living Waters Fly Fishing

About us Living Waters Fly Fishing is a Texas-based fly shop dedicated to conservation and education. The business started in 2006 solely as a fly fishing guide service, but in June of 2008, Living Waters Fly Fishing opened the doors of Round Rock’s first and only fly shop. The business is operated by guide and…

Photo Gallery: First Float

Published in Boats

Over the Memorial Day weekend, my family and three others took a wonderfully run whitewater class from River Rescue Dynamics (@riverrescuedynamics) in Grand Junction, Colo., then had the privilege of spending three days in Ruby and Horsethief canyons in far western Colorado and Utah. This was a “let the kids (all nine of them) run…

Voices from the River: Solstice

Published in Voices from the river

By Scott Willoughby I’ve never really been what the gang over on Santa Claus Lane might describe as “Christmas-y.” But I’ve always thought I’d make a decent pagan. Never having formally studied paganism, I’m not entirely sure why, although I do enjoy hanging out in the woods quite a bit, especially over a good Yule…