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From the President: Keep it Roadless
I was talking with a colleague today and he asked, “Why should I even bother to comment on the proposal to rescind the roadless rule? It won’t make a difference. They don’t care about my opinion.” I told him he was 100 percent wrong. Your voice matters. The public comment period on the proposal to…
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Watch, listen and learn during TU’s conversation with Fly Fisherman
Ross Purnell, editor and publisher of Fly Fisherman, recently took a trip to Trout Unlimited’s headquarters in Arlington to sit down with Trout Unlimited president and CEO, Chris Wood, on the Loop to Loop podcast. During their nearly hour-long conversation, they discuss a few topics currently affecting coldwater resources and the what, the how and…
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Two things anglers can do in times of drought
I had a choice this weekend. I could head down to Shenandoah National Park and fish for native brookies or ply the Potomac for blue catfish and perhaps an occasional schoolie striper. I chose the Potomac. While I love fishing the Potomac, after multiple days of high temperatures, I didn’t feel great about tugging on bespeckled jewels, even in cold small mountain streams. Your actions…
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Roadless areas help define the character of America
“There he is.” Stepping over deadfall and keeping a distance, we followed and periodically bugled to a herd of elk. I was leaning with my rifle against a tree when the rag-horn bull separated from the herd in response to Scott’s bugle. Elk hunting in roadless areas is prime thanks to great habitat After I shot the…
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Expanding hunting and angling opportunities on public lands
On January 7, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum signed Secretarial Order 3447, which reaffirms hunting and fishing access on public lands. This order underscores what hunters and anglers know firsthand: public lands are essential to support and sustain our hunting and fishing traditions. The fact is that millions of hunters and anglers across the country…
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Gratitude
TU makes it easy to be thankful
November is a pensive month for me. The leaves color and then let go. The plants lovingly cared for all spring and summer, decay. The days grow shorter and the nights longer. This will also be the first year that my brothers and I will not celebrate Mom’s November birthday, as she passed in July.…
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Every river needs a champion.
Look in the mirror. What you see is a champion.
My home-water, the Potomac River, is far from trout country (although TU’s restoration work in the headwaters has anglers now catching native brook trout). This spring, the Friends of Fletcher’s Cove hosted a day on the Potomac for kids from D.C. who had never been near the river, much less caught fish from it. On…
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Chris Wood
Chris has worked at TU for 25 years, and is not the best angler, but he is among the most earnest.