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This Land Is Your Land: Jason Barr
Jason Barr, born and raised in the shadow of Mt. Shasta at the tail end of the Cascade Range in northern California, has, you might say, an appetite for risk.
Our public lands are the foundation of healthy watersheds and strong communities. From remote trout streams to working forests and rangelands, these places provide clean water, vital trout habitat and public access for all Americans. But pressures like efforts to sell off and privatize public land threaten what makes them so valuable. This blog series…
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Driftless Area Restoration Effort Update
The Driftless Area team has been hard at work preparing for a very busy summer. With support from the Wisconsin Council of Trout Unlimited, the Capital Area Regional Planning Commission and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, we have a technician crew collecting culvert assessment data in the Driftless portion of Dane County this summer. …
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TU Science: Measuring the carbon benefits of restored floodplains
While Trout Unlimited’s river and floodplain restoration is often aimed at trout and salmon species, the benefits of our work extend far beyond fish habitat. When a stream channel is reconnected to its floodplain, key complexity and ecological processes are restored. The riparian habitat becomes more diverse, composed of a mosaic of side-channels, wetlands, willow…
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This Land is Your Land: Public lands and waters fuel Karenna Elliott’s recovery for the 2026 Winter Olympics
Our public lands are the foundation of healthy watersheds and strong communities. From remote trout streams to working forests and rangelands, these places provide clean water, vital trout habitat and public access for all Americans. But pressures like efforts to sell off and privatize public land threaten what makes them so valuable. This blog series…
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This Land is Your Land: Public lands prevail
Celebrating the defeat of public land sales After a hard-fought battle, efforts to sell public lands through the Congressional budget reconciliation process have been defeated. Proposals to sell off America’s greatest treasure Efforts to sell public lands in reconciliation first emerged in May when the House Natural Resources Committee passed an amendment to sell off…
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Watch Now: The Golden Trout Project
Our new film celebrates the incredible work being done to restore this iconic species and their home waters.
California Golden Trout are celebrated everywhere they’ve been transplanted across the West, but the native range of these beautiful fish is limited to the headwater meadow streams of the Kern River watershed high in the southern Sierra Nevada backcountry. WATCH NOW Today, these populations are struggling. Generations of habitat loss and hybridization have limited golden…
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Fishing, hunting & the Great American Outdoors Act
America the beautiful: let’s keep it that way
President Donald Trump secured one of the most consequential conservation laws this century by signing the bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act almost five years ago. This signature law provides permanent, dedicated funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), one of America’s most successful conservation programs. Passed in the 1960s and funded by offshore…
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