We bring people together to protect and restore rivers, sustain and recover trout and salmon, and in the process, make communities healthier.
We bring people together to protect and restore rivers, sustain and recover trout and salmon, and in the process, make communities healthier.
The film, Free Flowing, covers Trout Unlimited’s stream restoration work in WI where updating and upgrading culvert barriers allows native trout like brook trout in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest to move freely amongst this spectacular habitat.
This isn’t just about whether a fishing season opens on April 25. It’s about addressing the real problem and restoring a free-flowing lower Snake River to rebuild the conditions needed for healthy, harvestable wild salmon and steelhead to return.
Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration (LTPBR), Beaver Dam Analogs (BDAs), Post-Assisted Log Structures (PALS), and the like are acronyms river and stream restoration specialists are putting. And anglers should find value in learning about them too; because where there is improved habitat, fishing also improves.
Trout Unlimited’s Driftless Area Restoration Effort’s has another busy field season ahead of it for 2026. Work started in January, when we started construction on the partnership project on Fancy Creek. In conjunction with the landowners, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Mississippi Valley Conservancy, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesz, Pheasants Forever, Wisconsin Wetlands Association, Richland County Conservation District, U-W Madison, and others, the project has been designed…
Every TU project that improves watershed connectivity is important. One that opens 20-plus miles of coldwater habitat? Well, that’s next level. This July, crews will start work on a project to dismantle an obsolete dam on Broad Brook, a 22-mile tributary to the Hoosic River in Vermont and Massachusetts with headwaters in the Green Mountain National Forest. Built in 1889, the dam infrastructure was part of a system that served a water supply…
Several great apps can help anglers navigate to primo fishing spots in the Driftless area. Now, a new interactive ArcGIS StoryMap adds another layer of information, showcasing where Trout Unlimited’s collaboration with the National Fish Habitat Partnership is creating conservation successes across the region and making fishing even better. The Driftless Area Restoration Effort (TU DARE) is a long-running collaborative initiative focused on restoring coldwater streams, improving fish habitat, and strengthening watershed…
Trout Unlimited’s new study shows dam removal is feasible and affordable After more than three years of engineering work, legal analysis and other planning, Trout Unlimited has completed an extensive study considering the feasibility of removing the Enloe Dam from the Similkameen River in north central Washington. “The completion of the Feasibility Study is an…