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  • Public Lands

    A gem worth saving

    “Special places bring people together.”

    “Special places bring people together.” In 2019, Trout Unlimited’s Nevada field coordinator Pam Harrington wrote those words in a blog post highlighting TU’s campaign to protect the Ruby Mountains from speculative oil and gas leasing. In 2025, this sentiment rings truer than ever as a broad coalition of stakeholders and decisionmakers have rallied behind the…

  • Restoration

    Faces of Restoration: Jim Brooks guards the Gila

    TU works with some extremely talented people while developing and completing projects in the field that help make fishing better. We are excited to bring you a series highlighting these contractors. We hire equipment operators, truck drivers, laborers, material suppliers, engineers, technicians and water testing labs. They are unique, talented, humble and some are downright wild, but TU’s contractors are a…

  • Conservation

    Breakthrough for the Eel

    A new agreement promises to resolve decades of conflict over water use on California’s third largest watershed––and a legendary salmon and steelhead river  California’s mighty Eel River once produced so many salmon and steelhead that it sustained a commercial canning operation. But for over a century, conflicts over water use have plagued the basin. The…

  • Restoration

    The fish are back!

    Salmon and steelhead are roaring back above the recently removed Klamath dams. Now, what comes next? One of the truly magical moments of dam removal is when the fish start returning to their historic, reconnected habitat. It is a tangible moment in a process that can take decades to accomplish, and it confirms our hopes…

  • Conservation

    Sáttítla Highlands now a national monument

    New monument designation permanently protects the source waters of the Fall River and other famous trout streams in northern California © 2024 Kimberley Hasselbrink Coldwater conservation work sometimes takes one to places far from actual trout water. For example, it recently took me to Indio, California, in the Coachella Valley east of Palm Springs––Indio is…

  • Restoration

    Grande accomplishments for Rio Grande cutthroat trout

    Big conservation wins at the end of 2024 will benefit native trout in the Upper Rio Grande watershed of New Mexico and Colorado.

    Trout Unlimited’s team in the Upper Rio Grande watershed is basking in the glow of major conservation wins at the close of 2024. These wins were years, sometimes decades, in the making and will advance TU’s conservation goals for native trout and clean water. Win after win after win....and another win In early December, the…