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BLM ignores science, bends to DC politics on Roan Plateau

08/08/2008 BLM ignores science, bends to DC politics on Roan Plateau August 8, 2008 Contact: Bill Dvorak, National Wildlife Federation – (719) 221-3212 Corey Fisher, Trout Unlimited – (970) 589-9196 Suzanne ONeill, Colorado Wildlife Federation – (303) 919-3949 Dwayne Meadows, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership – (307) 742-3339 David Lien, Colorado Backcountry Hunters and Anglers –…

Trout Conservationists Oppose Severe Cuts to Conservation Programs in House-approved Agriculture Appropriations Bill

June 16, 2011 Contact: Steve Moyer, Vice President for Government Affairs, (703) 284-9406 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Conservationists Oppose Severe Cuts to Conservation Programs in House-approved Agriculture Appropriations Bill Inclusion of amendment to stop FDAs effort to approve genetically engineered salmon is applauded. Arlington, Va. — Trout Unlimited (TU) criticized severe and disproportionate spending cuts…

Senate reviews TU-supported public lands bills

Published in Government Affairs

Public lands are vital for trout fishing in America. Any decent map proves this. A hearing in the U.S. Senate on Oct. 19 provided a major opportunity to highlight the importance of public lands for coldwater conservation and to advance legislation that will better protect and restore some of the most famous trout, salmon and…

Voices from the River: Equinox

Published in Voices from the river

A bigger-than-average trout from a nameless creek, Sierra National Forest. By Sam Davidson For no good reason one of my favorite words is equinox. It sounds like a cool drum set, or a fancy word for a horse’s muzzle. Of course, the term (which stems originally from the old Latin aequinoctium, or “equal night”) means…

PARTNERSHIP LED BY TU AND TPL TO RECONNECT TRIBUTARIES IN THE GROS VENTRE HEADWATERS

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Tuesday, September 26th, 2017 Contacts: Leslie Steen, Snake River Headwaters Project Manager, Trout Unlimited, 307-699-1022, lsteen@tu.org Chris Deming, Senior Project Manager, Trust for Public Land, 307-739-3941, chris.deming@tpl.org PARTNERSHIP LED BY TROUT UNLIMITED AND TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND TO RECONNECT TRIBUTARIES IN THE GROS VENTRE HEADWATERS JACKSON, Wyoming – Trout Unlimited (TU) and the Trust for…

Reconnecting headwaters of the Gros Ventre River in Wyoming

Tuesday, September 26th, 2017 Contacts: Leslie Steen, Snake River Headwaters Project Manager, Trout Unlimited, 307-699-1022, lsteen@tu.org Chris Deming, Senior Project Manager, Trust for Public Land, 307-739-3941, chris.deming@tpl.org PARTNERSHIP LED BY TROUT UNLIMITED AND TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND TO RECONNECT TRIBUTARIES IN THE GROS VENTRE HEADWATERS JACKSON, Wyoming Trout Unlimited (TU) and the Trust for Public…

Colorado River Connectivity Channel Clears Final Federal Hurdle

Partners applaud decision allowing $30M river reconnection project to proceed FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 9, 2022 Contacts: Mely Whiting, Colorado Water Project Legal Counsel, 720-470-4758 Jeff Stahla, Public Information Officer, Northern Water, 970-622-2331 Ed Moyer, County Manager, Grand County, 970-531-7799 John Andrews, P.E., State Conservation Engineer, NRCS, 720-544-2834 DENVER, Colo.—The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)…

Voices from the River: Twelve hours

Published in Voices from the river

TU’s Brian Johnson, the Steelhead Whisperer, and Scott Yates at the end of the steelhead season on California’s central coast. By Sam Davidson The steelhead season ended almost exactly the way it began. I spent both the opener and the close at the same place, with the same crew. With the same results. Which is…

Voices from the River: One fish

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/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/blog/CR-steelhead_Mar-2019.jpg A single fish can mean so much. By Sam Davidson A single fish made me really happy recently, and I wasn’t even fishing. To be sure, this was no ordinary fish. It was a brute of a steelhead, as long as my arm and 12 pounds in heft, easy. So perhaps anyone seeing it…

One fish

Published in Fishing, Science, Voices from the river

A single fish made me really happy recently, and I wasn’t even fishing. To be sure, this was no ordinary fish. It was a brute of a steelhead, as long as my arm and 12 pounds in heft, easy. So perhaps anyone seeing it languidly finning just upstream of the bridge footing nine miles from…

Corridors paved with water

A view of the mountains in New Mexico.

When teaching guide clients how to read a stream, I stressed three basic conditions that dictate where a trout will hold: access to food, access to safety and access to shelter from energy-sapping currents. A healthy and stable abundance of any or all of these conditions affords trout the option of staying put, perhaps enabling…

Restoring a future with Gila trout

Published in Conservation, Advocacy

By Jeff Arterburn Very few people encounter the mountainous region of southwestern New Mexico known as “The Gila” by accident. The nearest interstates track the open desert valleys far from the sierra. Locals here will still acknowledge the occurrence of oncoming vehicles with a finger raised momentarily from the steering wheel, and not the middle…

TU Praises Work of Senators Byrd, Specterto Extend Abandoned Mine Cleanup FundingConservation group continues to call for long-term reauthorizationof Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund 

5/04/2005 NEWS ** 2 pages ** May 4, 2005 For Immediate Release Attention: Assignment/Environment/Outdoor Editor Contact: Chris Wood, VP for Conservation Programs, 703-284-9403 TU Praises Work of Senators Byrd, Specter to Extend Abandoned Mine Cleanup Funding Conservation group continues to call for long-term reauthorization of Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund WASHINGTON – Trout Unlimited today praised…

Important Tributary to be Reconnected to the Yellowstone

2/13/2004 Important Tributary to be Reconnected to the Yellowstone Important Tributary to be Reconnected to the Yellowstone Contact: Laura Ziemer Director, Montana Water Project Trout Unlimited Western Water Project 406.522.7291 x. 100 2/13/2004 — Bozeman, Mont. — A project that will reconnect an important tributary to the Yellowstone River has received funding from the National…

FISH-Friendly Hydropower

FISH-Friendly Hydropower FISH-Friendly Hydropower Trout Unlimited Supports House Bill to Generate Sustainable Hydropower Contact: Charles Gauvin President Trout Unlimited (703) 284-9401 2/7/2002 — Washington, DC — Fish and anglers sometimes have a problem with hydropower dams block fish migration and turbines can kill the fish. Yet proven and affordable measures can often dramatically reduce hydropower…