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  • Community

    Conservation is an investment in local communities

    As Congress considers infrastructure investments to stimulate the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic, they can look to organizations like TU for evidence conservation is a job-creating investment.

    By Paul Parson  Coldwater conservation efforts benefit more than trout and anglers. Trout Unlimited focuses on how conservation efforts will best benefit ecosystems and the fish that live in them, while also providing long-term economic benefits. More often than not, TU relies on local companies to do the heavy lifting, so that means the local…

  • From the field

    Seeking blue, seeing gold

    Meadow and watershed restoration in the Golden Trout Wilderness The Kern Plateau features a chain of meadows that serve as headwaters for the Kern and Owens Rivers, making it a crucial ecosystem for California’s water supply. Nestled within this stunning landscape just south of Mount Whitney, the Golden Trout Wilderness is home to small streams…

  • Climate Change

    Drought, wildfires and our work

    These are the dog days of summer.

    These are the dog days of summer. A stretch of continued hot weather and low precipitation left communities on the Front Range of Colorado, where I’m writing from, threatened by several wildfires that popped up at the end of July. These fires are a vivid reminder of what others across the 11-state western region are…

  • TROUT Magazine

    Resilience.

    On Apache Trout, and the people who ensured their survival

    On Apache Trout, and the people who ensured their survival July in Arizona and the heat lies out there like some hulking great beast, a monster with an appetite that seems always unsated. It swallows all when it can, but we humans move behind glass, the bake held at bay in containers of refrigeration. A…

  • Fishing

    Blue Collar Bamboo

    Restoring a piece of fly fishing history

    Restoring a piece of fly fishing history New bamboo fly rods often command hefty prices and long waiting lists appropriately reflecting the time and craftsmanship put into them, but there was a time when even anglers of modest means could fly fish with bamboo.   Mass-produced bamboo fly rods from the 1920s through the 1950s…

  • Advocacy

    Bipartisan Win for Abandoned Mine Cleanup

    Good Samaritan legislation advances key Senate committee with unanimous consent To watch cable news, you might think that our country is hopelessly divided on partisan lines. If you work in conservation, though, you see that genuine bipartisanship is possible with a lot of hard work. Today, the Senate Energy & Public Works Committee passed the…