Voices from the River: The leviathan

Photo by Chris Hunt by Dave Ammons There exist a number of memorable fish in my experience. The little brook trout caught in a narrow, tumbling stream whose encounter caused us both to blush. A cutthroat from the depths of a mountain tarn so clear it reflected a Colorado sky all the way through to…

Haiku winners announced

You’re all so creative! Thanks for tuning into Trout Unlimited and offering up such eloquent brook trout thoughts in Haiku form. Congratulations to A. Caisse who wrote: Anticipation Eager to see your shadow Brook Trout are you there? You win a Hatch Outdoors “Finatic” 5-Plus Generation 2 reel. And nateholmes who wrote: Wild salter brook…

Voices from the River: Getting lost

By Chris Hunt I got lost last night. Not your traditional, “I have no idea where I am,” kind of lost. But lost just the same. My daughter is home for a scant month between jobs—she’s returned from Colorado’s ski country and is a month away from her next gig at Colter Bay on Jackson…

TU testifies before Congress on Good Sam mining legislation

Contaminated abandoned mine drainage polluting the Animas River near SIlverton, Colorado. Trout Unlimited photo. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Trout Unlimited President and CEO Chris Wood testified before Thursday the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources on the need for legislation and funding to facilitate the cleanup of abandoned hardrock mines. Click here for…

Voices from the River: It’s a twin thing

There’s an infamous story from my youth. I don’t remember the finer points of the event, or any of the details really, just the “do you remember that one time” stories that my dad likes to throw in my face when the Booton family is together on the river. On a family vacation to Avalanche…

Montana TU and Logjam Presents stay the course on the Blackfoot

This summer, live music will benefit Montana’s famed Blackfoot River. That’s because Montana Trout Unlimited and Logjam Presents, owners of Missoula’s new KettleHouse Amphitheater, on the banks of the iconic Blackfoot River, are partnering to raise money to continue improving the health of the Blackfoot. For more than a hundred years, the confluence of the…

Measuring success in the West Branch Susquehanna watershed

By Shawn Rummel The West Branch Susquehanna drains an area of approximately 7,000 squares miles in north-central Pennsylvania, a watershed that’s double the size of Yellowstone National Park. Due to the large amount of public land in the basin —more than one-third is state forest, state park, or state game lands — it is a tremendous…