Idaho bull trout tagged in three different locations in one year
Bull trout range far and wide within connected river systems.
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Dam Removal Success Stories, Executive Summary
12/13/1999 Dam Removal Success Stories, Executive Summary Dam Removal Success Stories, Executive Summary Restoring Rivers through Selective Removal of Dams that Don’t Make Sense Contact: 12/13/1999 — — Few human actions have more significant impacts on a river system than the presence of a dam. Although dams can provide important societal benefits, dams also cause…
Winter Member’s Event Special Presentation – February 7th at High Country Outfitters
Jackson Hole Trout Unlimited & JD High Country Outfitters Invite You to Join Us Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 6:30 pm Cory Toye, Wyoming Water and Habitat Program Director will discuss the Systems Conservation Pilot Program, the innovative water leasing work that TU is pioneering in the Upper Green. The program compensates landowners and ranchers…
Tying the Tailout Sculpin
With low, clear water in most free-flowing trout rivers across America, it’s a good time to throw streamers that resemble sculpins
TU’s California program awarded $2.47 million in new conservation grants
Squaw Creek restoration area, Truckee River watershed. Recently Trout Unlimited’s California Program received major grant awards for eight projects that improve fish passage or dry season streamflows in steelhead, Coho, and trout streams around the state. The Fisheries Restoration Grant Program (FRGP), administered by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife), and the California Wildlife…
Protected areas
He was 21, just a young kid from the deep woods and crystal rivers of western Oregon. Beside him were other young men just like him with similar hopes and dreams. Kids from the cities and farms, forests and rivers, deserts and canyons of America. Staying alive was a challenge. Staying sane was even harder. …
Fishing the Olympic Peninsula
Angling on the peninsula can be had year-round and is especially unique because of how dynamic the rivers are and how much they change from one season to the next.
Book review: Streamwalker’s Journey—Fishing the Triple Divide
As a western fly fisherman who has never wet a line east of Colorado, I was drawn into Walt Franklin’s account of fishing a variety of rivers and streams near his home along the Pennsylvania/New York border. The watersheds of three rivers – the Genesee, the Allegheny, and Pine Creek – can be traced to…
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…
The dead Grande Ronde
Editor’s note: The TU Costa 5 Rivers Program sent a handful of college students to the Columbia River basin to study the challenges facing the drainage’s fisheries. At 4:30 a.m. we stumbled from our tents and into brisk chilly air. We zipped up our jackets, sipped hot coffee and ate warm oatmeal. After packing camp,…
On the Elwha, dams came down, steelhead came back.
Wild summer-run steelhead, once prolific in the Elwha, were functionally extinct before the dams were removed. Six years later, they were back.
Chance of a lifetime
How a unique partnership is working restore Eel River salmon and steelhead and keep water flowing to Russian River farms
Watch: “Reviving the Bear”
Once thought genetically extinct, this native trout is on the path to recovery
Copper on the Fly
We are a rainbow trout lodge located in the Bristol Bay watershed of southwest Alaska. Located on the famous Copper River, we fish mostly our home river with the ability to do fly outs to other rivers.
TU’s California Program excels in spite of 2020
It would be a serious understatement to say that 2020 has been a challenging year. Yet in the midst of a global pandemic and its harsh toll on our economy, communities and personal lives, Trout Unlimited and our supporters and partners helped deliver some outstanding conservation outcomes. Our California Program helped achieve major milestones on…
Report on Dam Removal Charts Course for Future Removal Efforts
4/16/2003 Report on Dam Removal Charts Course for Future Removal Efforts Report on Dam Removal Charts Course for Future Removal Efforts Contact: Laura Hewitt Trout Unlimited (608) 250-3534 4/16/2003 — — River Alliance of Wisconsin and Trout Unlimited announce the release of the report Restoring the Flow: Improving Selective Small Dam Removal Understanding and Practice…
Copper-Salmon Wilderness Act passes House
03/25/2009 Copper-Salmon Wilderness Act passes House March 25, 2009 Contact: Mike Beagle, (541) 538-8655 Jim Rogers, (541) 332-2555 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Copper-Salmon Wilderness Act passes HouseSportsmen celebrate as Elk River headwaters gain permanent protection WASHINGTON, D.C.The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, the bill that…
Big things are happening for trout in New Jersey
By Cole Baldino To the average angler, New Jersey may not seem like a top fishing destination, but if you live in the Nor theast, it should be. A plethora of coldwater streams drain from the New Jersey Highlands and into the Delaware River, and Trout Unlimited is working to make the fishing even better…
Trout Unlimited Opposes Hydroelectric Legislation, Says It Would Put The Interests of Utilities Over Rivers And Fish
3/11/2003 Trout Unlimited Opposes Hydroelectric Legislation, Says It Would Put The Interests of Utilities Over Rivers And Fish Trout Unlimited Opposes Hydroelectric Legislation, Says It Would Put The Interests of Utilities Over Rivers And Fish House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air quality will hold a hearing on the Radanovich, Hastings, Walden bill…
Trout Unlimited protests oil and gas leases in Grand, Jackson, Moffat counties, and SW Colorado
10/24/2007 Trout Unlimited protests oil and gas leases in Grand, Jackson, Moffat counties, and SW Colorado Oct. 24, 2007 Contact: Scott Linn, president, CO River Headwaters chapter, (970) 531-8250 Kathy Lynch, TU Western Energy Counsel, (307) 734-1807 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited protests oil and gas leases in Grand, Jackson, Moffat counties, and SW Colorado…