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  • House Goes After Trout Stream Protections--Again
    fieldandstream.com
    By Bob Marshall
    May 14, 2012
    Are they crazy or brilliant? That's a question Trout Unlimited and a growing number of sportsmen are asking about the House leadership after it launched yet another attempt to block a proposed new wetlands guidance that could restore protection to...
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  • KSL Outdoors: Fishing the Green River with some helpful electricity
    ksl.com
    By Adam Eakle
    May 8, 2012
    Utah's favorite tail-water fishery, that's the Green River below Flaming Gorge Dam is getting it's bi-annual checkup. The Division of Wildlife Resources, they are going fishing and they are using the most productive way possible, they're using a...
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  • Conservation is just part of Trout in the Classroom
    Post-gazette.com
    By John Hayes
    April 13, 2012
    A growing number of conservationists say that's bad news for a generation of Americans growing up with few outdoors mentors and little connection to nature.
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  • Sucking the river dry
    The Denver Post
    By Drew Peternell
    April 13, 2012
    Generations of Coloradans have fished, hunted, hiked, camped and floated along the waters of the Colorado.
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  • Fishing and restoration are growth industries the Tongass Forest needs
    alaskafreshsalmon.com
    March 30, 2012
    According to Alaska Fish and Game, the ex-vessel value of salmon caught commercially in Southeast Alaska in 2011 exceeded that of all other regions, including Bristol Bay ,for the first time since statehood. Across all gear groups, the commercial...
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  • Juneau Fisherman Makes His Case for Tongass Salmon
    CapitalCityWeekly.com
    By Amanda Compton
    March 30, 2012
    Jev Shelton has been fishing commercially for 51 years. For the last 40 of those, fishing has been his primary source of income
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  • The Tongass: America's Salmon Forest
    busterwantstofish.com
    March 6, 2012
    The Tongass is America's salmon forest and one of the few places in the world where wild salmon and trout still thrive. Some 65 percent of Tongass salmon and trout habitat is not Congressionally protected at the watershed scale, and is currently...
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  • Fishermen to Forest Service: Grow Jobs
    Anglingtrade.com
    March 6, 2012
    A group of Alaska commercial fishermen, anglers, guides, naturalists and tour operators are in Washington, D.C., this week to advocate for more conservation and restoration of fish habitat in the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska.
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  • Saving the Tongass
    Midcurrent.com
    By Marshall Cutchin
    March 5, 2012
    Called “America’s Salmon Forest” by conservationists who understand its critical importance to fish populations, the Tongass National Forest is currently open to multiple threats, including uncontrolled mining, damming and development.
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  • Sportsmen Ask BLM to Walk the Talk of the Boss
    fieldandstream.com
    By Bob Marshall
    March 1, 2012
    Hunters and anglers are learning that the head does not always speak for the body when it comes to the Bureau of Land Management.
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  • Transition in the Tongass
    Fish Alaska
    By Paula Dobbyn
    February 7, 2012
    On a rare sunny day in southeast Alaska last summer, Sheila Jacobson, a fisheries biologist with the U.S. Forest Service, led a group of visitors on a tour of a battered but recovering salmon watershed in the Tongass National Forest, a 17-million...
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  • Group press Corbett to halt oil and gas leasing in Pa. forests
    Philly.com
    By Andrew Maykuth
    February 6, 2012
    Over 40 sportsmen groups and conservation organizations pressured Gov. Corbett on Thursday to halt additional state forest leases for oil and gas development.
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  • Pennsylvania Sportsmen Urge Gov. Corbett Not to Lease State Land
    stateimpact.npr.org
    By Susan Phillips
    February 6, 2012
    A coalition of hunters and anglers say no more state forest lands should be leased to oil and gas developers. The groups, primarily consisting of the Pennsylvania Council of Trout Unlimited, sent a letter to Corbett on Thursday, telling him the 700,...
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  • In Colorado, conservation and jobs go hand in hand, say voters
    The Colorado Independent
    By Scott Kersgaard
    February 6, 2012
    A full 67 percent of Colorado voters identify themselves as conservationists, including 62 percent of Republicans and 65 percent of independents. A whopping 93 percent say parks and open space are essential to the state's economy.
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  • Trout Unlimited shows film protesting 'Million' pipeline
    ksl.com
    By Geoff Liesik
    February 6, 2012
    Trout Unlimited, a national anglers' advocacy group that has been highly critical of the project, held its first public screening Thursday of a video that highlights the beauty of the Green River and Flaming Gorge Reservoir.
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  • Colorado River advocates rally in Denver
    Summitcountyvoice.com
    By Bob Berwyn
    January 30, 2012
    Summit County — Colorado conservation activists last week gathered outside EPA headquarters in Denver, asking federal regulators to protect the Upper Colorado River system from proposed water diversions to the Front Range.
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  • Pennsylvania should protect its remaining state lands from drilling
    Pennlive.com
    By Bob Pennell
    January 27, 2012
    As our state constitution declares, Pennsylvania's natural resources are the common property of all the people, including future generations. It is up to the governor and his administration, as trustee of these resources, to conserve and maintain...
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  • The Changing Gorge
    Wyoming Wildlife
    By Lisa Densmore
    January 20, 2012
    TU's Charlie Card talks about growing up on the Green and the Gorge in Wyoming Wildlife
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  • Lake trout removal efforts get a boost in Yellowstone
    headwatersnews.org
    By Steve Woodruff
    January 19, 2012
    Forget catch and release. When it comes to lake trout, the mantra out West trends toward search and destroy.
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  • Effects of Chimney Hollow Reservoir would ripple far and wide
    Coloradoan.com
    By Kevin Duggan
    January 18, 2012
    Larimer County's landscape and water supplies would change in the coming years if and when the long-sought Chimney Hollow Reservoir comes on line.
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