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TU and supporters continue to help communities impacted by Hurricane Helene
Recent events have included tree plantings and tree giveaways in North Carolina and Tennessee When Hurricane Helene moved inland over the Southeast, it dropped as much as 30 inches of rain on small mountain towns like Marion, N.C., Roan Mountain, Tenn., and many other communities. The flooding was catastrophic, the damage unprecedented and, sadly, at…
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Faces of Bristol Bay series: hunt, fish, Stop Pebble
A big game hunting and fishing guide’s perspective on safeguarding Alaska’s Bristol Bay. You know the saying; “I get by with a little help from my friends”. As we cross into our second decade of advocacy for Bristol Bay, friends are more important than ever. The region is threatened by the proposed Pebble Mine; an open…
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Play, learn, serve, lead
Fifteen years before National Volunteer Week was officially recognized, Trout Unlimited (TU) was founded on a revolutionary premise: grassroots volunteers would anchor our work in the watersheds, communities and riverbeds of our mission. 65 years later, TU continues to thrive in over 400 communities across the U.S., thanks to volunteers who march steadily onward, planting…
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Katti Renik joins TU’s Great Lakes team
Katti Renik is joining Trout Unlimited’s Great Lakes team as a project coordinator in Northwest Wisconsin. Katti will be working with partners in the Lake Superior watershed on projects to reconnect fragmented habitat, implement natural flood management strategies, and further our understanding of coaster brook trout life-history and habitat restoration opportunities. Growing up on a trout…
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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…
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Sustaining wildlife and ancestral land uses together
It started with a mouse, the New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse, which was listed in 2014 under the Endangered Species Act. The listing closed an important pasture to grazing and also locked out trout anglers from fishing the Rio Cebolla. United in their belief that the mouse could be preserved along with ranching and fishing,…
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Jeremy Brooks scholarship affords Wisconsin student summer opportunity to work and learn
By Kyle Kamm Heading into my senior year studying fisheries management at The University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, I was fortunate as the recipient of the 2024 Jeremy Brooks Memorial Scholarship to be able to spend this past summer working in multiple aspects of fisheries management throughout a summer internship with Trout Unlimited. …
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