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On the hunt for bug knowledge
Are you an angler who likes to chase hatches? Have you been fishing for a while and noticed any changes to the local bug community? Now is your time to shine. About The Salmonfly Project The Salmonfly Project (SFP) is a nonprofit based in Missoula, Montana dedicated to conserving aquatic insects. Salmonflies make for a…
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Faces of Restoration: Capitan Forestry in Oregon
Restoration work in Oregon couldn’t happen without Capitan Forestry. The Grande Ronde and North Fork of the John Day headwaters are critical habitat and special places to fish, and the collaboration between TU and Capitan is making it even better. Capitan Forestry historically specialized in upland forest restoration work, but after partnering with TU’s aquatic restoration efforts in the…
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Striving to learn more about steelhead
Alaska TU chapters expand knowledge of steelhead on Kenai Peninsula There are many reasons steelhead, that coveted and often illusive quarry, have captured the imaginations of anglers for so long. Perhaps it’s their large size and the almost inconceivable power they exhibit as they bolt upstream, melting line from your reel in unimagined fury. Perhaps…
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Solving a math problem for Snake River Chinook
Two recent studies demonstrate how dam breach paired with increased spill in the mid-Columbia would allow many Snake River spring/summer Chinook populations to reach various management goals I am sitting on my parent’s porch on a Sunday afternoon in July when the neighbors stop by to say hi. “Oh! You are a fish biologist,” they…
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Floods and building reconnected rivers
Jordan Fields recently connected with TU vice president for eastern conservation, Keith Curley, to talk about Fields’ work.
August 28, 2011, was a day that changed Jordan Fields’ life. That day, Tropical Storm Irene dumped more than 11 inches of rain on Fields’ hometown in Vermont in just a few hours. “It was a week before I started my senior year of high school,” remembers Fields. “I watched as my friends’ and neighbors’…
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Blue Lines & Brook Trout – Mapping Critical Spawning Habitat in Connecticut’s Priority Waters
Trout Unlimited and Connecticut DEEP band together for wild trout data collection and improved regulations. Here’s how YOU can help today! Brook trout in Connecticut have certainly not had it easy these last few centuries due to logging, agriculture and development, and yet these resilient and resourceful native fish still hold on – even thrive…
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Oak Brook TU hosts genetic sampling day in Driftless
In May of 2024, the Oak Brook Trout Unlimited chapter traveled to the Driftless Area for their annual fishing visit. But in addition to the chapter’s usual fishing and stewarding their section of highway near Viroqua, magnanimous chapter member Dave Carlson also offered to give TUDARE a preview of the eDNA sampling methods the chapter has…
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