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TU and Forest Service team up to close damaged road in Georgia
Let’s get this out of the way. Rolling through muddy, tricky terrain in a tough four-wheel-drive rig or a burly ATV can be fun. But there is a time and place for mud-bogging, and one of the places where it doesn’t fit is in and around delicate trout streams. That’s the reason Trout Unlimited and…
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Healing the Land
For hundreds of years, the Wuda Ogwa, the site of the Bear River Massacre has undergone significant development, pollution and agricultural use. Now, the Tribe is restoring Wuda Ogwa to its organic and natural glory.
Editor’s Note: This Native American Heritage Month, Trout Unlimited is celebrating and honoring the efforts of our tribal partners who, since time immemorial, have been stewards of the lands, waters and wildlife they hold sacred. We are inspired by the stories of the Nez Perce working to recover salmon on the Snake River, of the…
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From the prairie to the stream
Wedde Creek wood project a natural fit for Wisconsin landowner Many anglers have heard the common refrain “Wood is good; foam is home.” It is sound advice when fly fishing, helping one to think like a trout and increasing the odds of catching them. Resource managers think about this saying too, and TU staff recently…
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TU/Costa’s 5 Rivers Students Help Complete Willowemoc Restoration Project
Students from Trout Unlimited’s 5 Rivers Program, hailing from six different universities across New York and Connecticut camped, fished, and planted trees in the Catskills for the Fall 2023 Northeast Rendezvous. Participants were welcomed by New York State Council’s Director of Youth Programming, Lindsay Agness and TU’s Youth Education Program Director, Franklin Tate who…
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TU restoration crew overcomes challenges in VT’s Green Mountains
Trout Unlimited restoration team members working in Vermont’s Green Mountains this summer faced many challenges. The team, which was primarily focused on strategically adding wood habitat to streams, frequently found itself dealing with a lot of high flows and intense passing storms. Despite the tough weather, the team was able to make great progress. In…
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Escaping Upstream
Both anglers and trout find less stress upstream
Both anglers and trout find less stress upstream Upon crossing the Mackinac Bridge into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, I exhaled and slowed a bit. The speed limit drops from the Lower Peninsula, but so does the pace of life as the highway crosses through friendly small towns and across seemingly countless trout rivers and…
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Agua es Vida: The fight to protect the Pecos River goes to Congress
Northern New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo mountain range holds incredible wealth: water, wildlife, forests, Rio Grande cutthroat trout, endangered species like the Mexican Spotted Owl, sacred Indigenous sites, as well as millions of metric tons of gold, silver, zinc, copper, and lead. The Pecos River drains the southernmost portion of the range, shaping its landscapes…
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