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New report explores how trout and salmon streams can be restored in the face of climate change

July 1, 2015 Contact: Jack Williams, Trout Unlimited Senior Scientist, (541) 261-3960 Beth Beard, American Fisheries Society (301) 897-8616 x215, bbeard@fisheries.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: New report explores how trout and salmon streams can be restored in the face of climate change American Fisheries Society publishes findings in latest edition of Fisheries WASHINGTON, D.C.Climate change is…

Conservation Planning and Assessment

Conservation planning and assessment helps answer “where” questions related to trout and salmon populations to help inform, guide, and contextualize Trout Unlimited’s work. Where are the strongest remaining populations for a protection focus? Where are the least disturbed habitats for a restoration focus? Where are the coldwater refuge streams for reconnection focus? Where can TU’s…

Youth Program Resources

When Trout Unlimited works in a community to care for and restore watersheds, it is crucial to both sustain and continue to grow the work that has been done. To sustain our work, we must engage local communities, especially the youth, to help them understand what we have done, and why. To that end, watershed-based…

TU Applauds EPA for proposing mining limits in Bristol Bay

July 18, 2014 Contact: Chris Wood at (571) 274-0601 Tim Bristol (907) 321-3291 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sportsmen Applaud EPAs Decision to Limit Mining in Alaskas Bristol Bay Agency proposes mining restrictions in Bristol Bay to protect salmon, world-class angling and 14,000 American jobs ANCHORAGE, AK Sportsmen around the country applaud the EPAs release of its…

Sweetwater Travel Company

Sweetwater Travel Company is located in Livingston, Montana. It was founded by the three Vermillion brothers – Dan, Jeff and Pat – and long time friend, Ron Meek in 1995 to build and manage ‘best of class’ fly fishing lodges around the world. Equally important to us was the desire to create an angling business…

Sportsmen Pleased with Decision to put Clean Water Act into Action in Bristol Bay

Contact: Chris Wood, President and CEO, Trout Unlimited, (703) 284-9403 Tim Bristol, Director, TU Alaska Program (907) 321-3291 Rob Masonis, Vice president for Western Conservation, TU, (206) 491-9016 Steve Moyer, Vice president for Government Affairs, TU (703) 284-9406 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sportsmen Pleased with Decision to put Clean Water Act into Action in Bristol Bay…

Tickets Now On Sale for Our 5th Annual Tie One On Banquet!

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Tickets are now on sale for one of the best events of the year! Jackson Hole Trout Unlimited’s5th Annual “Tie One On” Banquetto benefit our cold water fisheries and their watersheds Saturday, May 19th, 2018Hotel Terra in Teton Village, WY Music By PTOLive AuctionSilent AuctionRaffles Doors open at 5:30 for a no host cocktail hourDinner…

Order Stream Explorers Magazines

It’s easy to order any of our Stream Explorers magazines, covering topics from watersheds to trout biology and anadromy. To find out more and to order magazines, visit our partners at Ticket Printing.

Projects

The CCF Board meets with Trout Unlimited’s conservation leaders once a year, where the staff make proposals for project support, and the Board decides how to distribute that year’s fund. The following are featured Coldwater Conservation Fund projects. Download CCF impact reports at the bottom of this page. Wild Trout Designations, Pennsylvania CCF grants in…

Save Bristol Bay with Nautilus Reels this month!

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Pictured above: The custom Nautilus reel being offered as a prize for signing up to help protect Bristol Bay with Trout Unlimited By: The Alaska Program We are honored partner with our friends at Nautilus Reels to save a threatened world-class fishing destination in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Nautilus Reels will be giving away a custom…

TU opposes bill allowing deadly sediment flows like one on the Shoshone River in 2016

Contacts: Tom Reed, President East Yellowstone Chapter of Trout Unlimited, 717-215-0241, TomReed1458@gmail.com Brett Prettyman, Intermountain Communications Director, Trout Unlimited, 801-209-5320, bprettyman@tu.org For Immediate Release Jan. 31, 2017 CHEYENNE, Wyo. Instead of working to prevent another massive 20-mile fish kill like one last fall on the Shoshone River, a Wyoming legislator has proposed a law requiring…

Video spotlight: Brook Trout Country

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Our video post yesterday on an upcoming brook trout film got a lot of traction—it’s clear that I’m not the only guy out there who loves brookies, even if catching them here in the West means I’m catching a non-native fish that’s likely contributed to the decline of native cutthroat trout. Let’s be completely clear…

TU applauds expansion of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument

January 12, 2017 Contact: Jack Williams, Senior Scientist, 541-261-3960, jwilliams@tu.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Trout Unlimited applauds expansion of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Monument expansion will better protect unique native trout population, hunting and fishing opportunities ASHLAND, Ore. Trout Unlimited today praised President Obamas expansion of Cascades-Siskiyou National Monument, saying this action will better protect a population…

Upper Rio Grande Initiative

We are kicking off a monthly series focusing on our work in the Upper Rio Grande basin. This post educates readers to the work that has been done, work that will be done and introduces us to partners and staff who are dedicated to making this initiative successful across TU’s Protect, Reconnect, Restore and Sustain…

17 Eastern States Announce Coordinated Strategy for Brook Trout Conservation

3/7/2007 17 Eastern States Announce Coordinated Strategy for Brook Trout Conservation March 7, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Gary Berti, 828-318-5052 or gberti@tu.org Steve Perry, 603-271-1745 or sperry@wildlife.state.nh.us 17 Eastern States Announce Coordinated Strategy for Brook Trout Conservation Unprecedented New Plan Sets Firm Targets for 2025 WASHINGTON The future of the Easts premier native trout…

Grand Valley State students shoot ‘Tree Army’ film

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Last fall, Grand Valley State University students from the ‘Producing for Clients’ class worked with Trout Unlimited staff in Michigan to produce a video covering the exciting new initiative called the Rogue River Tree Army. Students filmed footage and interviews over multiple field days as the Tree Army, made up of staff and volunteers, planted thousands of…