We care for and recover
rivers and fish

Trout Unlimited brings people together across the country to be champions for their rivers and help make our water cleaner, our communities healthier and our fisheries stronger.

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Healthy fish need healthy water. We all do.

Today, our rivers and our fisheries face enormous challenges.

At Trout Unlimited, we are doing something about it.

We need champions to help us unlock the unlimited power of conservation. Are you in?

Want to Get Involved? Here’s How.

How to be a champion for your rivers

Learn how you can have a meaningful impact on your waters.

Everywhere

See what TU is up to in your backyard

Across the country, volunteers are rolling up their sleeves and getting to work. Join us.

In your community

Rendezvous with TU

Find a regional meet-up this spring and rub elbows with the staff and volunteers who are championing their rivers and streams.

North Carolina, New York, Montana, Michigan

Our Impact On the Ground

Cleaning up abandoned mines

Across the country, Trout Unlimited is ending the scourge of legacy mines leaching pollution into rivers and streams.


Apache Trout recovery

For the first time, a trout species in trouble has been removed from the Endangered Species List thanks to recovery efforts.


Standing up for America’s roadless areas

National Forest roadless areas provide some of the best fish and wildlife habitat open to hunters and anglers and all of us who care about public lands.

Trout Unlimited by the numbers

Our success is rooted in a sound conservation approach: Protect the headwaters, reconnect fragmented habitat, restore our watersheds, and mobilize communities to sustain our progress. Here’s what we accomplished in our 2024-25 season:

539

miles of reconnected rivers and streams

830,206

acres of protected watershed landscapes

645,051

hours of volunteer service

Be a Champion for Your Rivers


Why should you be part of Trout Unlimited?

We help you turn your passion for rivers and fish into a commitment to conservation.

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Be part of the nation's leading conservation organization caring for and recovering rivers and streams and their trout and salmon.

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Arm yourself with the tools you need to help make our water cleaner, our communities healthier and our fisheries stronger.

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Connect with TU volunteers making a difference in your waters.

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Get the award-winning TROUT magazine in your mailbox every quarter.

Already a TU member?

Renew your commitment to clean water, thriving fish and healthy communities.

Stand up for America’s public lands

Some of the healthiest rivers and the best trout and salmon fishing are on our public lands. Help us stop those who want to sell them off and reduce protections for these special places.

Latest Conservation News

The single greatest threat to native trout in a generation

The good news: You can do something about it.


Breaking ground on TU’s first major restoration project in Arizona

Restoring streams and meadows means more water for native trout and thirsty downstream communities.


Are restored floodplains storing more carbon?

TU scientists study the carbon sequestration benefits of stream restoration work in Alaska.

Learn: All About Trout & Salmon

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‘All men are equal before fish’

Is that the single greatest attribute of fishing for trout?

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In Sáttítla Highlands, with fly rod in hand

Exploring California’s best spring-fed trout streams, one year after its headwaters landscape won national monument status.

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East Coaster asks: Is trout fishing better out West?

Relatively speaking, even tough fishing days out West are still pretty good.

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Here’s the best gift you can give someone who fishes

Okay, we might be biased.

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The trout and I need a break

When the end of the season comes, it comes hard and I’m never ready for it.

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The Golden Trout Project

See how we are recovering an iconic species and their headwaters in California.