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Why Trout Unlimited backed the infrastructure and climate laws
The answer starts with our mission to care for and recover rivers and wild and native fish Congress did something very unusual over the past year. It passed and the President signed into law two huge pieces of legislation that will provide great benefits for trout and salmon for many decades to come. Some people…
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Mining for answers on climate
Ahead of the next U.S. mining boom, we need to stand up for clean rivers and wild trout You may have heard the saying, “If it’s not grown, it’s mined.” As consumers of products that include materials produced from mines—graphite for fly rods, tungsten and copper for flies, and aluminum for reels—anglers recognize that we…
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Because We Will Feel It First, Arizona Must Lead on Climate Change
Arizona’s Senators must continue to lead on climate issues in Congress and with the Biden Administration Today, hunters and anglers are on the front lines of climate change. We are not only seeing significant decreases in snowpack and water levels in formerly perennial streams but are also witnesses to the impacts of weakening monsoon activity…
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Tracking trout on the Deerfield
Data collected, scientists now set out to gauge how flows affect the river’s wild browns For the past two-plus years, TU’s Deerfield River Watershed Chapter members and community volunteers have been tracking the movements of 30 brown trout carrying surgically implanted radio transmitters. Now, after putting thousands of miles on their cars to collect 24 million…
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Funding the public lands in your backyard
National Wildlife Refuges are overlooked (and underfunded) gems of America's public lands system. We're working to change that. The U.S. National Wildlife Refuge System offers some of our country’s most accessible recreation, including fishing. While this system of federal public lands received a slight increase in funding this year and the President's budget requests an…
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Cooling off coldwater streams
Cooling off coldwater streams BY CHRISTINE PETERSON In an ever-warming West, hydrologists and anglers place hope in Mother Nature's refrigerator The creek running through Pam and Brian Robertson’s property wasn’t actually a creek. It was a ditch. A really, really deep ditch that funneled rushing runoff from the mountain to the Clearwater River each spring.…
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Hope for New Jersey’s trout in a warmer world
Scientists and anglers are sleuthing for groundwater sources that may help Garden State trout weather climate change Before joining the Trout Unlimited staff, Keith Fritschie spent four Octobers swimming with giant wild brook trout in northern New Hampshire’s Dead Diamond River. The work was part of an Embrace-a-Stream collaboration between New Hampshire Fish and Game,…
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