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Alaskan anglers, hunters, local businesses applaud EPA’s release of proposed safeguards for Bristol Bay; 40-day comment period opens

Photo by Fly Out Media Protective measures will safeguard important salmon spawning rivers in Bristol Bay’s headwaters from large-scale mine waste disposal.   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Contacts:   Nelli Williams, Alaska director, Trout Unlimited, (907) 230-7121, nelli.williams@tu.org  Chris Wood, CEO and president, Trout Unlimited, chris.wood@tu.org  Brian Kraft, president, Katmai Service Providers, owner, Alaska Sportsman’s Lodge, (907) 227-8719 

Voices from the River: 1 day, 820 trees

Published in Voices from the river

Steinbeck Country TU Chapter family member Cassie Frahm with a willow she planted in an old sand trap on the former Rancho Canada golf course on Earth Day 2018. By Sam Davidson You may have heard that there are a lot of dead trees in California these days. Over the Earth Day weekend, TU’s Steinbeck

Recovering salmon and steelhead in the Columbia Basin

Published in Uncategorized

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives will take up a bill, H.R. 3144, which would undercut the prospects for salmon and steelhead recovery in the Columbia River basin in the Pacific Northwest. HR 3144 offers a regressive response to the challenge of keeping the Columbia’s legendary salmon and steelhead runs viable while ensuring reliable and

Not too hot, not too cold

Published in Uncategorized

By Nick Chambers The greater Juneau area is home to several rivers that host wild steelhead runs. From a science perspective, Auke Creek is perhaps the most important of these, as scientists at the Auke Bay Marine Station have been operating a weir here for many years, whi ch has allowed them to census returning

TU, SRF host first-ever Large Wood Field School

Published in Conservation

Participants in the 2018 Large Wood Technical Field School, hosted by TU and the Salmonid Restoration Federation. Photo: Dana Stolzman, SRF One of the biggest coldwater conservation challenges in the western U.S. is recovering coho salmon in California, the southernmost extent of the species’ historical range. Coho, one of four species of salmon native to

Community Science

Community science is a rapidly expanding field where millions of participants each year gather data on hundreds of topics ranging from the weather, to water quality, threatened and endangered species, and such far off topics as the shape of galaxies. Trout Unlimited members have been gathering data on water quality and fish populations since the

Two 20-something women put their heads together to protect the Tongass

Published in Voices from the river, Community, Conservation, Fishing, TROUT Magazine, Women

If you’ve followed along with Trout Unlimited’s campaigns in Alaska over the past few months, you know that from Pebble Mine advancements to Roadless Rule rollbacks, incredible places like Bristol Bay and the Tongass National Forest are at great risk.   In response to the increased need for capacity on these TU campaigns, the Alaska program brought me and Kayla Roys on

EPA final rule unravels Clean Water Act protections 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  01/23/2020  Contact:  Steve Moyer, steve.moyer@tu.org, (571) 274-0593 Vice President of Government Affairs  Shauna Stephenson, shauna.stephenson@tu.org (307) 757-7861 National Communications Director  **For high resolution state-specific maps or images, please contact Shauna Stephenson**  The Environmental Protection Agency announced today it is finalizing a rule that will drop protections for millions of miles of streams and millions of acres of wetlands, putting watersheds at

Safeguards for fish, water quality head to Governor’s desk

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Crystal Elliot, Trout Unlimited Washington Habitat Director, celliot@tu.org or (509) 386-7768 Tom Uniack, Washington Wild Executive Director, 206-369-1252 Safeguards for fish, water quality head to Governor’s desk Bill just approved by legislature would update regulations for motorized suction dredging in habitat for endangered fish species.  OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington residents can

Beer boost: Team effort improves habitat on Virginia’s Beaver Creek

Published in Conservation

By Mark Taylor  A team approach is helping improve trout habitat on a popular fishing stream near Harrisonburg, Va.  Trout Unlimited’s national staff partnered with the local TU chapter and a property owner to improve a section of Beaver Creek, a spring-fed stream that runs through private land but that is open to public fishing through a unique cooperative program.  The

TU-led partnership with historic railroad restores key salmon habitat on California north coast

For Immediate Release Contact:            Anna Halligan, Trout Unlimited                           ahalligan@tu.org, (707) 734-0112 Conservation partnership restores salmon habitat along Skunk Train railroad Trout Unlimited-led effort replaced old culverts blocking fish passage along the Skunk Train’s famed Redwood Route between Willits and Fort Bragg. December 15, 2020—FORT BRAGG, Calif. Trout Unlimited’s North Coast Coho Project announced today the

Snorkeling in frigid water, jumping jacks and a successful restoration project

Published in Restoration

Snorkeling is a relatively easy and cost-effective way to survey streams for trout populations estimates. This summer, TU’s Jacob Fetterman conducted his first surveys on a stretch of Camden Creek, a tributary to the Battenkill River, prior to a habitat restoration project. He will survey the same stretch next to estimate the impacts of the project.

Big protection for small streams

Published in From the President

Happily, this week, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Márquez found Trout Unlimited’s arguments compelling and declared that the 2020 rule was illegal and “would cause serious environmental harm.”

Trout in the Suburbs

Published in Conservation
Group of people wearing waders stands in a stream

Michigan habitat work transforms stream in southeast corner of the state into a trout haven for a big population center.

TU Leader Defends Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Funding Before Senate Committee

3/11/2004 TU Leader Defends Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Funding Before Senate Committee TU Leader Defends Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Funding Before Senate Committee Contact: Tim Zink Manager, Media Relations Trout Unlimited 703.284.9427 3/11/2004 — Washington — Charles Gauvin, president and CEO of the national conservation organization Trout Unlimited, today offered testimony before a Senate committee