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  • Camp Woolly Bugger
    Sierra Magazine
    By Jeff Galbraith
    September 1, 2010
    Deep in the hubris of middle school peach fuzz and social class struggle, I was sent to a kids' fishing camp in the Puget Sound area during the cool early weeks of April. At the church camp's lakeside compound, the program was pretty straightforward...
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  • Spread Creek Dam removal to improve trout habitat
    Jackson Hole News & Guide
    By Cory Hatch
    September 1, 2010
    Project near national park will open up 50 miles of stream to migrating cutthroat.
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  • EPA OKs mine cleanup in San Luis Valley
    Summit County Citizens Voice
    August 25, 2010
    For the first time, environmental groups will be able to take advantage of an EPA Good Samaritan provision created in 2007 that’s designed to speed up cleanups of watersheds and fisheries threatened by pollution from abandoned mines.
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  • Moose Plate Program helps rescue rail trail waterway
    The Nashua Telegraph (NH)
    By Hattie Bernstein
    August 24, 2010
    On the map, the abandoned rail trail that begins south of Lake Potanipo and follows the Nissitissit River to Pepperell, Mass., is a plain orange line superimposed on a green aerial view of trees, roads, and waterways.
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  • Crews help cleanse Ninemile creeks of mining waste
    The Missoulian
    By Rob Chaney
    August 23, 2010
    "This is one of the most heavily mined watersheds along the Clark Fork," said Trout Unlimited restoration coordinator Rob Roberts. "They basically turned the valley upside down. They rerouted the creeks multiple times..."
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  • Scene Outdoors: Building better trout streams
    Rochester Post-Bulletin (MN)
    By John Weiss
    August 21, 2010
    This year's effort to restore a portion of Trout Run Creek has required Trout Unlimited to use years of expertise, big bags of grass seed, heavy earth-moving equipment — and cows.
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  • Trout Unlimited, EPA agree on creek cleanup
    The Pueblo Chieftain (CO)
    By Matt Hildner
    August 21, 2010
    Trout Unlimited has signed a draft agreement with the federal government that would shield the group from liability in the cleanup of Kerber Creek in Saguache County.
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  • Water release will improve two streams
    The Daily American (PA)
    By Len Lichvar
    August 20, 2010
    The long anticipated and sought after release of water from the Quemahoning Reservoir has begun. No, not the whitewater release, the conservation release.
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  • Brook Trout return to Kettle Creek watershed
    The Express (PA)
    August 20, 2010
    After more than decade of work by Trout Unlimited to repair damage from highly acidic, abandoned coal mine drainage in the lower Kettle Creek watershed, native brook trout have returned to a once-dead section of Middle Branch, a tributary to Twomile...
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  • Montana will reconsider rural water regulations
    Great Falls Tribune
    By Matthew Brown
    August 19, 2010
    Montana officials said Wednesday they will rewrite a rule that allowed tens of thousands of rural homes to be built without water permits, but it was unclear what impact the proposal would have on development.
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  • Let's get smart about Idaho water planning
    Teton Valley News
    By Kim Goodman Trotter - Director, Idaho Water Project, Trout Unlimited
    August 19, 2010
    The Bureau of Reclamation announced last week that the Henry's Fork Special Study - a recently launched study of water supply options for eastern Idaho - would be funded under BOR's new WaterSMART program.
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  • SKOL: Trip to trout stream offers lesson, both good and bad
    Onalaska-Holmen Courier Life
    By Dave Skoloda
    August 19, 2010
    The 90-degree, high-humidity-with-chances-for-thunderstorms weather forecast wasn’t encouraging, but Chuck and I decided to go trout fishing anyway. We were expecting hordes of mosquitoes as well to make the event even more inviting.
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  • Editorial: The river critter we're trying to avoid
    The Oregonian
    By The Oregonian Editorial Board
    August 17, 2010
    Oregon has always been about its waters, rivers in particular. Now some of the folks who love them most face a grim dilemma: Are fly fishers and others who would wear felt-soled waders posing an invasive species threat to the waterways?
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  • Fly fishers serving as transports for noxious little invaders
    The New York Times
    By Felicity Barringer
    August 16, 2010
    Blame their boots — or, more precisely, their felt soles. Growing scientific evidence suggests that felt, which helps anglers stay upright on slick rocks, is also a vehicle for noxious microorganisms.
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  • Notebook: Native trout return following mine reclamation project
    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    By John Hayes
    August 15, 2010
    As part of a clean-water trend that's occurring in small creeks across the state, native brook trout have returned to a once-dead section of a Clinton County stream.
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  • Scott Fly Rod Co. joins effort to protect Colorado’s Alpine Triangle
    Angling Trade Magazine
    August 12, 2010
    Scott Fly Rod Co. of Montrose, Colo., has endorsed Trout Unlimited’s efforts to protect the fishing and hunting resources of southwest Colorado’s Alpine Triangle.
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  • Teaching the art of fly fishing
    The River Reporter (NY)
    By Clem Fullerton
    August 12, 2010
    My evenings the week of Monday, July 19 through Friday, July 23 were spent mentoring teenagers at the Trout Unlimited (TU) Water Camp.
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  • Colorado River battle shaping up
    Summit County Citizens Voice
    By Bob Berwyn
    August 12, 2010
    For all the sugar-coated talk of negotiation and collaboration, the latest showdown over diversions from the upper Colorado River in Grand County has the potential to turn into a bare-knuckles fight...
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  • Willoughby: Healthy upper Colorado isn't sure thing anymore
    The Denver Post
    By Scott Willoughby
    August 10, 2010
    It could, I suppose, be considered the end of an era, although such lofty portrayal is typically reserved for matters of broader significance.
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  • For future protection
    Centre Daily Times
    By Mark Nale
    August 9, 2010
    Thousands of gallons of cold, clear water ebbs from a deep spring hole not far from the Pinecroft exit of Interstate 99. I think about the steep drop-off into the blue depths beside which I am standing, and my brain wisely suggests that I move a...
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