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Washington projects featured at White House as models for future Yakima and Methow showcased in summit focused on water resources and sustainability CONTACT: Lisa Pelly / Director of Trout Unlimited’s Washington Water Project lpelly@tu.org / (509) 630-0467 (March 23, 2016) Wenatchee, Wash. A local project focused on fixing an aging irrigation-water delivery system garnered national…
Kern River Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss gilberti) Species summary and status: Kern River rainbow trout look similar to Coastal rainbow trout, have a slight gold hint. They have many fine, irregular spots all over their bodies, and larger fish may have a rosy streak along their sides. They can also be identified by the distinctive…
USFWS fish passage funding provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will support TU projects in Priority Waters across eight states
New leadership and investments in people reflect growing federal partnerships and project funding across region Contact: DENVER – Today, Trout Unlimited (TU) announced a series of new investments in its people to accommodate the growing number of innovative partnerships across the Rocky Mountains. Over the last decade, TU has secured roughly $133 million in funding partnerships to…
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…
New leadership and investments in people reflect growing federal partnerships and project funding across the region.
“For us, this was a no brainer. For my entire lifetime, we’ve been trying to have both dams and fish. We’ve spent billions of dollars trying to do that. It hasn’t worked and it won’t work. These fish need free-flowing rivers to survive. Hatcheries are no substitute. We need to remove the lower four.”
Floodplain habitat connectivity improvement project site, Lawrence Creek TU’s North Coast Coho Project has been awarded a major grant to underwrite the first year of a three-year project to restore floodplain habitat connectivity in Lawrence Creek, a tributary to Yager Creek in the Van Duzen River drainage in Humboldt County, California. The Lawrence Creek Reconnection…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2021 Contacts: Chris Wood, President and CEO, Trout Unlimited, chris.wood@tu.org Jack E. Williams, Emeritus Senior Scientist, Trout Unlimited, Jack.williams@tu.org Helen Neville, Chief Scientist, Trout Unlimited, helen.neville@tu.org ARLINGTON, Va.—In an open letter to the governors of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, published today, a group of scientists with several hundred years…
4/22/2004 TU and Partners Launch Coaster Brook Trout Web Site, Directory of Researchers and Newsletter TU and Partners Launch Coaster Brook Trout Web Site, Directory of Researchers and Newsletter Contact: Todd Breiby Coaster Brook Trout Program Coordinator Trout Unlimited 608.255.0361 4/22/2004 — Madison, Wis. — More than a century after forces began converging to decimate…
We have an unparalleled opportunity here. If the dams were removed, about 46 percent of the historic spawning and rearing habitat for spring and summer Chinook Salmon and summer steelhead is still accessible. Mile-for-mile, the Snake River basin contains the coldest, most undisturbed stream habitats in the Lower 48. If we are going to make major investments in wild fish recovery in the Columbia Basin, the Snake is the place to put our money.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released its final recommendation report for improvements to be made at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam in Joliet, Ill., to prevent the movement of invasive Asian carp into the Great Lakes. Trout Unlimited supports the final draft recommendation, which includes a few significant changes from the original…
The new DEIS for the Snake River won’t restore salmon
By Caroline Shafer I grew up in a very small town in Upstate New York. At a young age I was introduced to hunting and fishing by my father and grandfather. As I grew up, I realized the importance of conserving our environment and wanted to learn more. I received my bachelor’s degree in Fisheries…
Southeast volunteers of all ages offer brook trout a hand
By Eric Crawford The Idaho Fish and Game commission today announced that the fabled Clearwater River steelhead run would be closed to fishing starting Sept. 29. This closure, initiated to protect the few returning two-ocean, or “B-run” steelhead, is a first since 1975. Seen by some as a much-needed respite from the intense fishing pressure…
Tracking how and when fish move to different habitats, and the different biological strategies they use, lets us learn about their basic ecology and understand how to sustain and restore what they need to thrive. It also helps verify the success of our restoration work when we confirm that fish are accessing and using restored…
1/04/2005 For immediate release For more information: Drew Peternell 303-440-2937 CONTROVERSIAL PROPOSED GUNNISON RIVER HYDOELECTRIC PROJECT LOSES ITS WATER RIGHTS TU: AB Lateral Project would have damaged two watersheds in western Colorado Boulder, CO A proposed hydroelectric power project which could have taken more than 1,000 cfs of water from the Gunnison River has relinquished…
Wheeler wants the fish back. The Nez Perce people want the fish back. So does the Yakima nation, the Nisqually, the Sauk-Suiattle, the Nooksack. All united to one cause—bring the Snake River salmon back for once and for all. Bring the dams down.
A stream roiling dark with Chinook salmon in central Idaho’s wilderness high country. A throb, a pulse of life into a pristine river, the abundance of the ocean arriving in the flesh of thousands of salmon in a wild mountain river hundreds of miles inland. This was. This was life itself, for the land, for the water, for the people.