Planting trees for the benefit of trout, and the planet

How volunteers and staff are improving trout streams and helping reduce atmospheric CO2.
How volunteers and staff are improving trout streams and helping reduce atmospheric CO2.
For Immediate Release April 13, 2018 Contact: Steve Moyer, smoyer@tu.org, (571) 274-0593 Laura Ziemer, lziemer@tu.org, (406) 599-2606 Corey Fisher, cfisher@tu.org, (406) 546-2979 Trout Unlimited lauds conservation benefits in House Farm Bill Washington, D.C.House Agriculture Committee Chairman Michael Conoway yesterday introduced Republican-authored legislation for reauthorizing the Farm Bill, which expires Sept. 30. The bill reauthorizes many
By Toner Mitchell The four-day gathering was a professional development course for secondary school teachers, its mission to explore the nexus of fly fishing, religion and philosophy, and how the re sulting ferment might motivate resource conservation in anglers (and students). We discussed several texts, some Thoreau, a PhD thesis arguing that fly fishing naturally
Photo: Utah Division of Wildlife resources Utah’s roadless areas protect all of those and more. The only thing roadless areas don’t do is keep you out. That’s part of their beauty and uniqueness. Somewhat oddly named, Utah’s 4 million acres of roadless areas often do contain Jeep trails or other two-tracks, allowing every kind of
Friday, October 4, 2019 Contacts: Leslie Steen, Snake River Headwaters Project Manager, Trout Unlimited, 307-699-1022, lsteen@tu.org Kelly Owens, Forest Hydrologist, Bridger-Teton National Forest, 307-739-5598, kelly.owens@usda.gov Trout Unlimited (TU) and the Bridger-Teton National Forest (BTNF) announced today that Phase 2 of the Tribasin Fish Passage and Watersehd Restoration Project is scheduled to begin during the fall
December 23, 2019 Contacts: Leslie Steen, Snake River Headwaters Project Manager, Trout Unlimited, 307-699-1022, lsteen@tu.org JACKSON, Wyoming –Trout Unlimited (TU) announced today that on-the-ground implementation for the Bar BC Spring Creek Fish Passage & Channel Restoration Project is currently underway. The project is a collaboration between agency partners and private landowners to improve fish migration into
Facebook among contributors to help secure enough water to support fish and recreation in one of the state’s most popular rivers June 30, 2020 Contacts: Jordan Nielson, Trout Unlimited, Jordan.nielson@tu.org – 801-850-1221 Michael Mills, Central Utah Water Conservancy District, mikem@cuwcd.com – 801-226-7132 Mike Slater, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, michaelslater@utah.gov – 801-367-5941 Melanie Roe, Facebook, melanieroe@fb.com Mark Holden, Utah Reclamation Mitigation and
By Mark Taylor During her hundreds of days wearing an electrofishing backpack in Pennsylvania, Kathleen Lavelle has searched for trout in just about every kind of stream, from tiny trickles to plunging, boisterous mountain rivers. But on a day in August 2019, she experienced something new. Lavelle and her crew were shocking fish in a road.
Wednesday afternoon, a day that America won’t soon forget, I was on a phone call just across the river in Trout Unlimited’s Arlington, Va., headquarters. A group of us at TU were talking about recovering Snake River salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest when my phone began blaring with a message from the mayor of Washington, D.C. In response to the attacks on the Capitol, she was ordering a city-wide curfew in three hours. TU staff and volunteers regularly go
Trout Unlimited works with whoever is at the controls of the White House, agency, House, Senate, or committee leadership. Demonstrating the point: our tireless advocacy efforts helped persuade the last administration to deny a key permit for the Pebble Mine in Alaska and to sign the Great American Outdoors Act into law
Anglers are optimists. We often stay out late for repeated “last casts” in the hopes of landing a big fish. For those of us who care deeply about trout and salmon, we need that optimism, because for multiple reasons, many populations are in decline and it sometimes seems that we are fighting a rearguard action.
An historic mill, and its former owner, are playing a key role in a collaborative effort to save native fish in an important Rogue River tributary. This campaign reached a milestone recently with a formal agreement to sell the mill’s historic water right to Trout Unlimited, with two years to raise the funding.
Good Samaritan Bill Receives Praise in Senate Subcommittee Hearing on Mining Reform
11/1/2005 November 1, 2005 Contact: Steve Moyer, TU Vice President for Government Affairs, (703) 284-9406, smoyer@tu.org Trout Unlimited and U.S. Department of Interior Collaborate to Restore Abandoned Mine Lands Partnership will facilitate cleanup of acid mine drainage across the country Washington The national conservation organization Trout Unlimited (TU) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with
Contact: Wade Biddix, 804-287-1675 July 12, 2010, Richmond, VA USDA NRCS has approved $32,000 in funding to expand ongoing partnership activities with Trout Unlimited (TU) aimed at restoring native brook trout habitat in priority springs within the Shenandoah Valley. Authorized through the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Initiative Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative (CBWI-CCPI), NRCS funds will be
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Steve Moyer, Vice President of Government Affairs, (703) 284-9406, smoyer@tu.org U.S. House of Representatives Approves Amendment to Uphold Endangered Species Act Bipartisan amendment removes rider from appropriations bill. Arlington, Va. Trout Unlimited (TU) applauds the U.S. House of Representatives approval of a bipartisan amendment to uphold Endangered Species Act (ESA) protection
Photo courtesy of Scott Dickerson / Design Pics/Getty Images/Design Pics RF If you haven’t checked it out yet, you need to visit The Guardian and read its ongoing series on public lands and the threats to them. A deep dive into the public lands issue, this collaborative project with the Society of Environmental Journalists is
Fundraising Events For decades, the traditional means by which a TU chapter or council raises funds is by holding an annual fundraising banquet. This is still the primary way that most chapters and councils raise funds, and is an important part of any fundraising event strategy, but there are new and evolving ways that are
By Chris Collier In August, TU worked with our partners in northeast Wisconsin to remove a remnant logging dam in the North Branch Oconto River. This is the second of three dams TU and our partners will remove on the river in Wabeno, Wisc. The dam was originally installed more 100 years ago to help
Steve and Jenn Kurian are the owners of Wild for Salmon and Pride of Bristol Bay, companies that donate 1% of all sales to protect Bristol Bay.