Western Water Project

Trout Unlimited has been "extremely successful" in completing various fish passage projects, including migration barrier removal, irrigation canal fishing screening, and habitat restoration and enhancement. Specifically, the agency cited Yates and TU staff's work in eight fish passage projects in the Bear/Green River and Wind/Bighorn River drainages.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t make a difference drinking a couple of beers. Earlier this summer PL reported that the New Belgium Brewing Company in Ft. Collins was spearheading an effort to restore the Colorado River after being named one of the “Most Endangered Rivers in America”. New Belgium, along with Patagonia, Aspen Snowmass Environment Foundation, Colorado Kenney Brothers Foundation, National Geographic Maps, Environment Now, and OARS started the Save the Colorado River Campaign. Now all those brewskies enjoyed after a full day of paddling have come to fruition.

I made a trip south April 22nd to fish for native cutthroats with Trout Unlimited’s Corey Fisher, National Wildlife Federation’s Land Tawney, and Joel Webster of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. I started out at daylight, and crossed Rogers Pass in a howling horizontal blizzard. At the Cenex station in Lincoln, the first town for seventy miles from my house, I stopped for coffee. A young tow truck driver at the gas pumps asked me, “How’s the pass?” I struggled for an answer that would actually describe what I’d just driven through.

Concerns over the health of the entire Upper Colorado River drainage have been magnified in recent months by proposals from Denver Water and Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District to annually draw an additional 45,000 acre feet from the Fraser, Williams Fork and Blue rivers through the Moffat Collection System Project and Windy Gap Firming Project.

A handful of Chris Fisk's Butte High students in current events made it clear to him that they wanted to fight a bill changing Montana's stream access law...

In coming decades, Colorado's Front Range will face booming population growth and a "gap" between water supply and water demand. The discussion of options for meeting the gap continues to focus on old ideas including huge trans-mountain pipelines, which are extremely costly and inflict lasting damage on our rivers, streams and wildlife.

Trout Unlimited is working to protect Idaho's spectacular 17-mile Teton Canyon, a stronghold for Yellowstone cutthroat trout that is threatened by a proposal to rebuild Teton Dam. A new poll conducted by American Rivers shows that eastern Idahoans support alternatives...

Colorado is waking up to the sobering reality that its finite water resources may not keep pace with projected population growth. A recent state-sponsored analysis predicts a "gap" between water supply and the water demands of the nearly 6 million expected inhabitants of the Front Range in 2050...

A plan to give the Blackfoot River drainage a more competitive standing for Bonneville Power Administration dollars moved closer to approval on Tuesday during a Missoula meeting of the Northwest Power and Conservation Council.