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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…
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Dam removal in Catskills will make fishing even better on Mongaup Creek
Separated by several years, two events are working together to make a great trout stream in the Catskills even better. First came a decision in late 2020 by New York state fisheries officials to halt stocking on the Mongaup Creek, a tributary to the Willowemoc Creek in the upper Delaware River watershed. The move came…
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Another barrier down: Reconnects habitat on Maryland’s Wolf Den Run
A barrier on Wolf Den Run in the Potomac Highlands of Maryland––a TU Priority Waters area––was among the many AOP projects TU tackled in 2024.
Imagine it’s a blistering hot summer day and your house has only one room that’s air-conditioned. But there’s a problem: The door operates only one way. You can leave the cool room, but you can’t go back in. That’s what happens when a dam or a perched culvert creates a blockage on a stream, and…
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Reconnection Report Card — New York Priority Waters
Trout Unlimited's staff and municipal partners continue to work diligently to complete a wide-spanning list of New York priority culvert surveys and replacements. The reconnection of fragmented and dammed rivers resides at the core of our strategy to improve habitat for New York’s wild trout. With our small but mighty team, we reconnected over 30…
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Protecting the source
Famous trout streams depend on waters flowing from the public lands of Sáttítla. These lands and waters should be permanently protected as a national monument. Few Trout Unlimited (TU) chapters have the embarrassment of riches in their territory as TU’s Shasta Trinity Cascades Chapter. Within a two-hour drive of this chapter’s base in Redding, California…
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Vander Werff joins TU staff to lead project work in CT
TU’s Northeast Conservation program has welcomed a key role player to the team. Jon C. Vander Werff is TU’s new Connecticut project manager. Vander Werff will orchestrate the 2025 Norwalk River Cannondale Dam (below) removal project, partnering with regional staff leads Tracy Brown and Jesse Vadala to execute this major project and connect our mission…
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2024 Photo Essay
2024 Recap (so far) - Photo Essay (Photos by Swiftwater Films) Iron Gate was over 500 feet wide and stood as tall as a seventeen-story building. The farthest downstream of four Klamath barriers dismantled over the past year in the largest dam removal project in history, it impounded a reservoir covering over 1,000 acres and…
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