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.
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.
Today
How to be a champion for your rivers
Learn how you can have a meaningful impact on your waters.
Everywhere
This Week • Next Week • Next Month
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
March 2026 • April 2026 • May 2026
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
A free-flowing Klamath River
The largest dam removal in history opened up hundreds of miles of spawning habitat to salmon and steelhead for the first time in a century.
400+
miles of river reconnected
100+
years since salmon reached the Klamath headwaters
Success Stories
Cleaning up abandoned mines
Across the country, Trout Unlimited is ending the scourge of legacy mines leaching pollution into rivers and streams.
Wins
Apache Trout recovery
For the first time, a trout species in trouble has been removed from the Endangered Species List thanks to recovery efforts.
Campaigns
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.
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
Recent Wins
Taking on the big projects in the Pacific NW
On Oregon’s Clackamas River, volunteers like Terry Turner are channeling their passion for angling into river restoration.
From the President
The single greatest threat to native trout in a generation
The good news: You can do something about it.
Press Release
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.
Science
Are restored floodplains storing more carbon?
TU scientists study the carbon sequestration benefits of stream restoration work in Alaska.
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