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PacifiCorp Offers Little for Klamath Salmon

2/24/2004 PacifiCorp Offers Little for Klamath Salmon PacifiCorp Offers Little for Klamath Salmon Contact: Chuck Bonham California Counsel Trout Unlimited 510.528.4164 2/24/2004 — Portland, Ore. — On Tuesday, PacifiCorp submitted an application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for a new license for its Klamath River hydro project that proposes no significant measures to…

TU supports Kildee bills to protect Great Lakes from commercial aquaculture

CONTACTS:Taylor Ridderbusch/ TU Great Lakes Organizer, tridderbusch@tu.org/ 715-313-0001 Bryan Burroughs/ Michigan TU Executive Director, bryanburroughs@michigantu.org, 517-599-523 (Feb. 9) FENTON, Mich. Trout Unlimited applauds Michigan Congressman Dan Kildee, D-Flint, for introducing legislation that will protect the Great Lakes and designated Wild and Scenic rivers from the harmful impact of commercial aquaculture operations. The Ban Aquaculture in…

Snake River salmon: Let’s give credit where credit is due

Published in Conservation, Featured, Science

Last week Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID) turned up the volume on the issue of recovering Snake River salmon and steelhead.   Not that the issue wasn’t front and center for him before. He has been battling to find ways to bring back Idaho’s dwindling salmon and steelhead populations for years.  But now that a long-anticipated Draft Environmental Impact Statement has outlined a “business as usual” approach – indeed, the preferred alternative does…

Fish and fire in the West

Published in TROUT Magazine, Featured

In June 2013, researcher and fisheries biologist Ashley Rust and her family were at their family cabin near Creede, Colo., when an afternoon rainstorm—a frequent occurrence in the San Juans at that time of year—worked through the area

Provision in House Energy Bill Would Destroy Nation's Premier Trout Fisheries

10/1/2001 Provision in House Energy Bill Would Destroy Nation’s Premier Trout Fisheries Provision in House Energy Bill Would Destroy Nation’s Premier Trout Fisheries Organization mobilizes membership to fight measure becoming law Contact: Steve Malloch , Counsel , Trout Unlimited (703) 284-9415 Counsel Trout Unlimited (703) 284-9415 10/1/2001 — Arlington, VA — Americas largest coldwater fisheries…

Voices from the River: Jim Rogers, Elk River protector

Published in Voices from the river

By Kyle Smith Jim Rogers first came to Elk River over 50 years ago as a forester and was tasked with logging off the watershed for its heralded Port Orford Cedar. Following a short time in the Elk basin, it quickly became clear to Jim that the river was special and that his true purpose…

Voices from the River: New water

Published in Voices from the river

By Chris Hunt Every move I made seemed amplified in the little jon boat—every time I set my fishing sling down on the aluminum deck or shifted my flip-flopped feet or repositioned a fly rod, it sounded as if I was ringing an off-key church bell. The little boat was new to me, as was…

Lessons from Warren and Scott

Published in Conservation, From the President, TROUT Magazine
Warren Colyer and Scott Yates.

Trout Unlimited members, and many of our staff, love to fish. Perhaps none more than Scott Yates and Warren Colyer, both of whom co-lead our largest staff cohort, the Western Water and Habitat program. One of my favorite memories at TU was fishing on Wyoming’s Gros Ventre River at dusk. I was working the far…

TroutRoutes

Published in Gear reviews, Fishing

Until now, no phone or tablet app was particularly useful in locating trout streams and finding public access to them.  Enter “TroutRoutes,” an app that maps trout streams in Colorado, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Nebraska and North Dakota.  Montana, Wyoming and Michigan are on the way.   The app claims that there are over 4,000 streams shown…

Voices from the River: Urban fish

Published in Voices from the river

By Mark Taylor Scenic and peaceful, this place was not. We were walking on the shoulder of a busy highway in Eastern Pennsylvania, Joe Baylog leading the way. We were in the area working on a film project on TU’s work with the state’s Unassessed Waters Initiative. Baylog, president the Forks of the Delaware chapter,…

Voices from the River: Conservation skills

Published in Voices from the river

Dave Sweet of the East Yellowstone Trout Unlimited chapter works to install a new rotating drum screen on an irrigation canal coming off of Trout Creek, a tributary to the North of the Shoshone River. The bypass tube back to creek can be seen on the left side of the canal near Sweet’s foot. Thomas…