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A 133-mile river cleanup? That’s the longtime goal for “Sweep the South Branch”
Stream cleanups are a great way for Trout Unlimited to engage with communities. Every year TU members and supporters connect on hundreds of rivers for events that make streams healthier and prettier. Most of the events last a few hours and produce plenty of trash, from tires to plastic grocery bags to those ubiquitous single-use plastic drink bottles. When TU staffer Jeff Kresch…
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Idaho’s spring Chinook season: A reminder of what we’ve lost and what we can still restore
In late March, after a series of public meetings, the Idaho Fish and Game Commission announced Idaho’s 2026 spring Chinook season. Let’s be clear, as important as it is to have an opportunity to fish and harvest hatchery salmon, the limited spring Chinook season in Snake River basin is not a sign of recovered wild populations. These fish are still far from healthy and harvestable goals and nowhere…
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Legacy Contracting: Building bridges for fish and communities on the Salmon SuperHwy
On Oregon’s beautiful North Coast rivers, the Salmon SuperHwy is working hard to reconnect over 180 miles of high-priority, historic salmon, steelhead, lamprey and cutthroat trout habitat in the Tillamook, Nestucca and Sand Lake watersheds. As of January 2026, the partnership has already accomplished 75 percent of their goal. Over the course of the last decade, the partnership has restored access to 137 miles…
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Capital Culverts: The Road Stream Crossings of Dane County, Wisc.
This summer, Trout Unlimited employed two seasonal technicians to collect culvert and bridge inventory data in Dane County, Wisc. This inventory is part of our larger effort to better understand the extent of habitat fragmentation across the Driftless Area and ensure that we have sufficient information about outdated infrastructure to have ready solutions when it…
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Seed Savers Exchange celebration to feature a trout tour
Seed Savers Exchange stewards America’s culturally diverse and endangered garden and food crop legacy for present and future generations. They educate and connect people through collecting, regenerating, and sharing heirloom seeds, plants, and stories. Seed Savers Exchange has been saving and sharing seeds with gardeners since 1975. To commemorate the Seed Savers Exchange network—and all…
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TU’s North Coast Coho Project awarded four major grants
Funding from the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Fund will support at least 75 local jobs Trout Unlimited’s North Coast Coho Project (NCCP) has an impressive record of success in restoring and reconnecting streams north of San Francisco Bay for salmon and steelhead. NCCP staff with project partners Among other achievements, the NCCP has reopened more…
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Trees of Time: Expanding the Legacy of Boquet River Restoration
In the early 1990s, TU volunteer Rich Redmen had the idea to use large Willow stakes to resurrect a deeply eroding stream bank on the Boquet River in Wadhams, N.Y. At the time, it was a common practice to load eroding banks with large rocks, often called rip rap. But rip rap could cost 15…
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