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Veteran congressional staffer Lindsay Slater to lead the Trout Unlimited policy team

Reorganized policy, communications teams promise to amplify TU’s impact Contacts: ARLINGTON, Va.—Longtime congressional staffer Lindsay Slater—who was instrumental in protecting wilderness areas in the Northwest and building momentum for a comprehensive plan to remove the lower four Snake River dams, rebuild the region’s infrastructure, and recover imperiled Pacific salmon and steelhead—is joining Trout Unlimited as

Hermosa Bill gets hearing in the House

For immediate release 3/6/2014 Contact: Ty Churchwell (970) 903-3010, tchurchwell@tu.org Hermosa Bill gets hearing in the House Bill would protect more than one hundred thousand acres near Durango Washington D.C. A bill that would protect the Hermosa Creek watershed near Durango, Colorado took another step toward becoming law as it received a committee hearing Thursday

Anglers to President Trump: Protect our waters.

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This week, Congress voted to make it easier for coal mining companies to dump their waste in your streams and rivers. To be clear, this will not bode well for your fishing. The repeal of the Stream Buffer Zone Rule by both House and Senate will make it easier for mining companies to remove mountain

Video spotlight: Flip Pallot

Published in Video spotlight

“Things get said in a skiff that wouldn’t get said in a confessional,” Flip Pallot says. No kidding. As a trout guy, I’ve always said that the truth always comes out around a campfire. And I’d love to share a campfire conversation with Flip Pallot. As a formative fly fisher in my 20s and early

Trout Tips: Let conditions choose your rod

Published in Fishing, Trout Tips

An angler fishes a small mountain stream with a shorter, lighter fiberglass rod. For years, I’ve gravitated to lightweight and shorter fly rods, simply because I usually spend my summers chasing trout in tight quarters along snaking backcountry streams. The shorter rod length lends itself to fishing among overhanging willows, allows for tighter casts, shorter

TU making fishing better on Vermont’s Mettawee

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Replacing perched and undersized culverts with bridges allows fish and other stream-dwelling residents access to important, additional habitat. By Erin Rodgers   Trout Unlimited’s ambitious work on the Mettawee River in Vermont moved forward in earnest in 2018 setting the stage for continuation of the effort in 2019.   This ongoing project aims to remove or restore all barriers fish

Large wood additions improving habitat in Vermont

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By Erin Rodgers  A Trout Unlimited project in Vermont is improving fish habitat in an important native trout stream.   In July and August 2018, a field team of seven people — led by me and Joel DeStasio— installed a significant amount of large woody habitat on 3.5 miles of Michigan Brook in Pittsfield.   The team used

Fishing and aging

Published in Voices from the river

Aging. We all do it — every minute and second of every day. Why is wisdom gained only with age? Hitting a rather large, round number earlier this year, I’ve been reflecting on life — how to spend more time living my life, how to spend more time with the people I love, and how to make the most of those minutes and seconds, every day.  Of course, one answer

TU building Technical Assistance Program in New Hampshire

Published in Community, Conservation

By Joel DeStasio  Trout Unlimited continues to build upon our successful series of community flood resiliency workshops in New Hampshire, engaging local decision-makers, such as Selectboard, Department of Public Works and Conservation Commission members, on identifying and restoring critical infrastructure.  During this recent series of workshops, TU successfully worked with an additional 23 communities across the Granite State, increasing awareness of infrastructure risk and vulnerability while at the same time educating stakeholders on how to

Fishwest Fly Shop

Fishwest Fly Shop located in the “Gateway To The Uintas” in Kamas, Utah. Fishwest Fly Shop opened its doors in 2008 in the Salt Lake Valley and we’ve been serving local anglers and visitors to Utah ever since. The fly shop is a full-service fly fishing outfitter offering flies, apparel, and other fly fishing essentials

Bugs have stories to tell

Published in Science, Climate Change, Featured, Living with Fire

Since the beginning of time fire has played a big part in shaping the western landscape. And that is even more true today with larger, more intense fires with more frequency. We dove into two researchers’ stories who determine the impacts of fires to forests and ultimately our beloved rivers––one in the summer issue of

A Native Odyssey – Southern Appalachian brook trout in Tennessee

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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 16 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 native

The gift of fishing

By Charlie Perry Trips to waters filled with trout were the norm of my childhood. Summer adventures in Yellowstone. Weekends spent in the High Uinta Mountains of Utah. Holidays fishing the Green River in a deep red rock canyon below Flaming Gorge Reservoir. These were special places for my family. I have many cherished memories

Voices from the River: A winter respite

Published in Voices from the river

By Randy Scholfield Here on the Front Range, where plains meet mountains, winter weather is always unpredictable, a hit-and-run affair. We might get a foot of snow—and three days later, it’s 70 degrees and you get a hatch of Boulder dudes in shorts and flip-flops. For the past week, we’ve been having one of those