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30 Great Places: Tongass

Published in Uncategorized

Region: AlaskaActivities: FishingSpecies: Chum, Chinook, Sockeye, Pink and Coho salmon; Dolly Varden; Steelhead; Coastal cutthroat trout; Rainbow trout Where: The Tongass encompasses 17 million acres of public land, spread across much of Southeast Alaska. It’s a wonderland of hulking hemlock, spruce and cedar western hemlock, Sitka spruce, western red cedar and yellow cedar trees, dotted

Voices from the River: STREAM Girls connect with nature

Published in Voices from the river

Participants at a recent STREAM Girls event held in South Carolina get their feet wet. Trout Unlimited photo. By Franklin Tate Composer Aaron Copland was so inspired by Appalachian spring he wrote a symphony about it. Countless other artists and musicians have also found their muses once the days lengthen and the very seams of

New science promotes trout recovery

Published in Conservation

By Chris Wood Some define conservation as overseeing loss. Loss of wetlands; loss of open space; loss of water quality; loss of species. Aldo Leopold harkened to this when he wrote in the Sand County Almanac that “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

TU: proposed energy bill limites public involvement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 5, 2018 Contact: Corey Fisher, Trout Unlimited, cfisher@tu.org, (406) 546-2979 Steve Moyer, TU, smoyer@tu.org, (571) 274-0593 Randy Scholfield, TU communications, rscholfield@tu.org, (720) 375-3961 Draft bill would force citizens to pay to have a say in public lands decisions (Washington, D.C.) Ahead of a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing, Trout Unlimited today

Bringing back the Big Wood

Published in Conservation

Eroding banks along the Bridge to Bridge project area By Chris Wood The sign behind the two-person Trout Unlimited office in Hailey, Idaho, reads, “Parking for Trout Unlimited only. If towed, call Dick York Towing.” It is an inside-Hailey joke as Keri York’s Dad ran Dick York Towing—the only towing business in the Big Wood

TU Statement on FY19 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill

tu-logo-xl.jpg FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 18, 2018 Contact: Steve Moyer, smoyer@tu.org, (571) 274-0593 Trout Unlimited Statement on Passage of the 2019 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill WASHINGTON D.C. Last Friday, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the Energy and Water Appropriations bill, which included vital funds for western drought remediation and fisheries habitat programs. With

TU volunteers support stream protections in NJ

Published in Conservation, Community, Fishing

By David Kinney­ TU volunteer leader Agust Gudmundsson came out for a public hearing this week to testify in support of New Jersey’s trout streams, as he has time and again over the years. This week, the cause was a bit closer to his heart than usual. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)

‘A Nation’s River’ highlights TU’s efforts in the Potomac headwaters

Published in Conservation, Fishing, Science, TROUT Magazine, Video spotlight

Dustin Wichterman lives trout.  By day he manages Trout Unlimited’s restoration and protection work in the Potomac headwaters.  Most of the rest of the time he’s either fishing for trout or dreaming about fishing for trout.  And a big part of that dream is that one day the Potomac headwaters will again regularly churn out native brook trout pushing

Fly Fishing on a Changing Yellowstone

Published in Conservation, Fishing, Science, TROUT Magazine

Sometimes is takes a crisis to spur action. It’s an unfortunate reality—in order to realize that something is dreadfully wrong, something that can’t be ignored must first happen. In the summer of 2017, after a low-snow winter in southwest Montana, thousands of native mountain whitefish went belly up on the Yellowstone River between Gardiner and

Barrier Removal, New Fish Screen, Pennington Creek

Trout Unlimited is working along the south-central coast of California to recover native steelhead runs, largely by restoring habitat and enhancing fish passage and dry season streamflows through cooperative partnership projects with landowners and agricultural operators. Steelhead are listed as Threatened in this region. On Pennington Creek near San Luis Obispo, TU completed a major

Pennsylvania protects 70 new stream sections

Published in Conservation

By Rob Shane On July 16, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) approved the upgraded designation of than 70 streams to “Wild Trout” and “Class A wild trout” status. This successful rulemaking came in response to almost 200 public comments from TU members and supporters in favor of the proposed designation. Many of the

Kinross Gold Named Corporate Conservation Award Winner

October 10, 2019 Contact: Brett Prettyman, 801-209-5320, brett.prettyman@tu.org Kinross Gold Named Corporate Conservation Award Winner ELKO, Nevada — Kinross Gold Corp., an important partner of Trout Unlimited in Nevada, was recognized recently by the conservation organization at its annual meeting. J. Paul Rollinson, president and CEO of Kinross, was on hand in Rogers, Arkansas, last

Bonds of brothers

Published in Voices from the river, Community, Conservation, Fishing

As age takes its toll, the memories become stronger By Drew Irby I was browsing through a collection of scanned photos the other day and came across a vintage pic from the family archives. I had been randomly thinking about what happened to certain friends from my college days in northern Arizona. Seeing this shot

The ‘lame duck’ session is here

Published in Advocacy, Conservation
A windmill in Idaho.

Elected officials know they have one last shot to hammer out deals before the Congressional landscape changes permanently in January. The result? The lame-duck session … a sprint-to-the-finish flurry of legislative action defined by compromise we don’t see too often on the Hill

Congressman unveils bold plan to recover Snake River salmon and steelhead

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  February 7, 2021  Contacts:   Chris Wood, President and CEO, Trout Unlimited, chris.wood@tu.org  Rob Masonis, VP for Western Conservation, Trout Unlimited, rmasonis@tu.org  Greg McReynolds, Snake River campaign director, Trout Unlimited, gmcreynolds@tu.org  Comprehensive proposal would remove four lower Snake River dams and invest in the Northwest region’s energy, transportation, and agricultural infrastructure BOISE, Idaho.—U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson

Celebrating Women’s History Month via the Villepreaux-Power aquarium

Published in Think Tank

“After accidently leaving the tank uncovered over the course of some warm and sunny days, we came in to find an overgrowth of algae on all the surfaces withing the aquarium. Fortunately, blocking the sunlight stopped the growth and the trout managed to eat the remaining algae, leaving the tank clean once more. “