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Celebrate #EarthDayAtHome with TU
Celebrating #EarthDayAtHome as we stay safe during the pandemic
Earth Day is turning 50 on April 22, and we should all be outside together picking up trash, planting trees, teaching kids about conservation and celebrating our shared commitment to a better future. But we can't. Millions of Americans are reeling from the challenges, pain and loss of COVID-19 and trapped in self-imposed isolation, state-mandated…
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To fish or not to fish during the outbreak
Can we safely go fishing during the outbreak? A retired emergency room physician answers the questions we've all be asking about the wisdom of hitting the water during these troubling times.
Editor's note: The following first appeared in Angling Trade magazine. Admittedly, things are moving fast and my own opinions have evolved quite a bit in the past several days especially. But one thing that really sticks out and absolutely warms my heart is the sheer class and integrity of the many people in fly fishing with…
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Shannon’s Fly and Tackle Shop
Get behind our TU Business members
In the same boat These are difficult times. This pandemic has all of us on edge. Millions of us are under lockdown. Millions more are isolating themselves and practicing social distancing, limiting their personal contact with others. It’s a global pandemic, and it’s serious business. In communities across the US and around the world, we’re…
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Fish need water — people need jobs
By Justin Bezold In much of the arid western United States the scarcity of resources, especially water, creates a competition that often pits would-be-friends against each other. In central Washington’s Yakima Basin that narrative is changing as Trout Unlimited’s Yakima team and the Kittitas Reclamation District’s (KRD) secretary-manager, Urban Eberhart, work with other Yakima Basin…
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Dave Brandt, fly fishing legend, dies in New York
By Mark Taylor Trout Unlimited has lost one of its legends. Dave Brandt of Oneonta, N.Y., died on March 26. He was 75. Brandt was well was a longtime TU volunteer leader, his dedication so above and beyond that he had a chapter named in his honor. He’s one of just a few TU members to…
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Taos Fly Shop family still supporting TU during the outbreak
The Streit family is TU royalty in New Mexico
In the same boat Rio Grande del Norte — the big river of the north. It cleaves New Mexico from north to south, a band of green in a hard, gray-brown country. The Norteños of northern New Mexico have fished this river and its tributaries — the Red, the Chama and the others — for…
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Help TU help our TU Business Members
Keeping our partners in business matters to us. After all, we’re all in the same boat. Editor’s note: In the coming weeks, we’ll be asking you, our TU members, supporters and followers, to do some online business with some of our best TU Business members. These businesses give back to conservation again and again, and…
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