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Wiscoy Creek: Staking the Roots of TU Inspiration
Around age 11, Kyle Glenn was walking the roadside path to go fishing for trout in Wiscoy Creek with his dad, Paul. As they approached a small bridge overpass, the pair noticed an angler at the bridge. After a few moments, Tom Piwowar began to share a familiar tale to most, the kind of “5-pound brown trout from right over there” story that every optimistic angler…
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Challenges delay but don’t stop big project in NC
Trout Unlimited’s project managers are accustomed to encountering challenges in the field. Jeff Wright, who until recently was TU’s Southern Appalachians program manager, had no idea what he was to face for a major culvert replacement project deep in the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina. Hurricane Helene, which devastated swaths of the landscape across the Southeast early in the fall…
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Volunteer anglers sought for coaster fin clip collection
Fishing is great. Even better? Fishing for science.
Fishing is great. Even better? Fishing for science. Trout Unlimited is looking for angler volunteers in the upper Great Lakes region to help gain a better understanding of the distribution of coaster brook trout in Lake Superior and its tributaries in Wisconsin and Michigan. TU and agency crews have been looking for coaster brook trout…
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Restoration in the Sawtooth National Forest benefits unique Idaho redbands and sculpins
In 2022, Trout Unlimited and the U.S. Forest Service embarked on a five-year $40 million national Keystone initiative to increase the scale of watershed restoration on our national forests and grasslands—home to many of America’s most important native trout and salmon species and the source of drinking water for some 180 million people and 68,000…
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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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Building watershed resilience in the Southern Appalachians
When Hurricane Helene tore its path of destruction north from the Gulf of Mexico through the Southeast, there was nothing anyone could do to change the storm’s strength or its path. But we do have an opportunity to pre-emptively address the risks storms and other natural weather events pose to our communities. We do that…
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A busy restoration season for TU in the Driftless Area
The summer of 2024 has been busy for Trout Unlimited staff and volunteers in the Driftless Area. Several projects were completed this summer and many more are in the works. There was activity in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa this year, with work to remain underway until winter. The most recently completed Wisconsin project was…
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