Volunteers roll up their sleeves to embrace two struggling western waters
Healing a river takes time. It takes skill and knowledge. It takes funding and resources. It takes communication and partnership building.
Embrace A Stream
Supporting local projects across the country
WHAT IS EMBRACE A STREAM?
Cold, clean, fishable water doesn’t come easy. It takes the right mix of headwater habitat protection, stream reconnection and the restoration of degraded areas for native and wild trout to thrive. And it takes all of us to embrace a stream.
Embrace A Stream (EAS) is a matching grant program from Trout Unlimited that invests in work by grassroots chapters and councils to conserve and restore rivers and streams and their trout and salmon fisheries.
Since its inception in 1975, Embrace A Stream has funded more than 1,250 individual projects with more than $5 million in direct cash grants. Each year, over $100,000 in grants is awarded to more than two dozen projects restoring streams, engaging communities and educating youth from coast-to-coast.
Local TU chapters and councils contributed an additional $15 million in cash and in-kind services to Embrace A Stream funded projects, for a total investment of nearly $19 million.
Embrace A Stream by the numbers
Number of completed EAS projects… and counting
* Since 1975
Number of hours volunteered
*Last five years
Number of trees planted
* Last five years
Number of river miles restored or reconnected
* Last five years
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Reels to the rescue
How a partnership with iconic Colorado companies benefits TU’s Embrace A Stream program
Volunteers roll up their sleeves to embrace two struggling western waters
Healing a river takes time. It takes skill and knowledge. It takes funding and resources. It takes communication and partnership building.
Volunteers go big on the Hooch
TU volunteers in the Southeast turned a $7,500 Embrace-A-Stream grant into a quarter-million-dollar project and energized the local conservation community.
Since 1975, TU’s Embrace A Stream grant program has awarded more than $5 million to local chapter projects in 45 states across the country, supporting more than 1,250 local conservation projects.
These grants have leveraged more than $15 million in matching funds and inspired more than 500,000 volunteer hours from local anglers and conservationists – an impact that spans the generations!
Protect what you love
Over the past two years, Mayfly Outdoors, owners of Ross Reels, and Molson Coors, have helped grow the impact of this iconic program through unique reels that raise funds – and awareness – for the waters that matter to so many anglers.
Critical funds for critical places
The Ross Native Series highlights the need to restore rivers for native trout, and has brought critical funds to projects benefitting cutthroat, brook and rainbow trout across the U.S.
The Coors Banquet collection of reels has made an outsized impact on TU projects across the Rockies region, with work taking place on waters like Clear Creek, the Provo River, La Barge Creek and the Big Hole.
Every River Needs a Champion
The same free-flowing rivers that sustain trout and salmon bring clean water into our homes, give life to vibrant communities and feed a passion for angling and the outdoors.
Today our fisheries and our rivers face enormous challenges. At Trout Unlimited, we are doing something about it.
Across the country, we bring people together to protect and restore rivers, sustain and recover trout and salmon, and in the process, make communities healthier. We pull down dams and witness salmon returning. We rebuild rivers and watch trout thrive. We reconnect streams split by roads and clean up mine pollution. We build coalitions to advocate for wild places and the rivers that run through them. We make water cleaner and more abundant and make landscapes more resilient to wildfire, drought and flood.
Unlimited impact requires many hands. We don’t do this work alone; we never could. Whether you are passionate about wild and native fish, inspired by the wonder of rivers or dedicated to clean water, we invite you into our community of optimists.
Selling fly fishing and doing conservation
From big rod makers to small tackle shops, the fly industry makes caring for our waters part of the mission.
Volunteers go big on the Hooch
