CONTACTS: Barb Allen, President, Jackson Hole Trout Unlimited, 307-413-3510, info@jhtroutunlimited.org Cory Toye, Wyoming Water Project Director, Trout Unlimited, 307-332-7700 x14, ctoye@tu.org Leslie Steen, Snake River Headwaters Project Manager, lsteen@tu.org Brett Prettyman, Intermountain Communications Director, Trout Unlimited, 801-209-5320, bprettyman@tu.org TROUT UNLIMITED LAUNCHES NEW INITIATIVE FOR COLDWATER FISHERIES CONSERVATION IN SNAKE RIVER HEADWATERS Leslie Steen hired to…
Restoring streamside vegetation using grazing and beavers
Ranchers, Bureau of Land Management staff, and other partners tour Susie Creek in 2012.Photo courtesy Carol Evans/BLM. If you hang around a Bureau of Land Management biologist near a stream long enough, you are bound to hear the acronym PFC. Proper Functioning Condition is a long-standing rapid assessment the BLM uses to evaluate the overall condition or…
TU's Hodge honored with USFS Rise to Future Award
ArmstrongCreek 003.JPG Brian Hodge (left) talks to volunteers at Armstrong Creek field work day. Media Contacts: Rick Henderson, USFS Fishery Biologist (970) 870-2219 Randy Scholfield, TU Director of Communications, Southwest Region (720) 375-3961 TUs Brian Hodge Honored with USFS Rise to the Future Award (STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo.) February 18, 2016 U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and…
Sportsmen praise progress on Roan Plateau
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 17, 2015 Contact: David Nickum, Trout Unlimited, 720-581-8589, dnickum@tu.org Judith Kohler, National Wildlife Federation, 720-315-0855, kohlerj@nwf.org Sportsmen welcome Roan Plateau progress Praise BLM draft plan as important next step in efforts to conserve prized backcountry hunting and fishing lands SILT, Colo. The Bureau of Land Management today released a draft Environmental…
TU praises compromise on Thompson Divide
TROUT UNLIMITED PRESS RELEASE July 30, 2015 For Immediate Release Contact: Shane Cross, scross@tu.org, (307) 359-3080 Trout Unlimited praises compromise reached on Thompson Divide Carbondale, CO Trout Unlimited and Sportsmen for Thompson Divide today praised a negotiated compromise reached by stakeholders of the Thompson Divide area that allows Gunnison Energy LLC (GELLC) to continue operating…
State of the Trout: Native fish on the Colorado Plateau and in the Southern Rockies in peril
June 23, 2015 Contacts: Jack Williams, Trout Unlimited senior scientist, jwilliams@tu.org, (541) 261-3960 Chris Hunt, Trout Unlimited national communications director, chunt@tu.org, (208) 406-9106 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Trout Unlimited report highlights challenges facing native trout in the U.S. Climate change, non-native species among biggest threats on the Colorado Plateau and in the southern Rockies WASHINGTON,…
State of the Trout: Native fish in Utah and Wyoming in peril
June 23, 2015 Contacts: Jack Williams, Trout Unlimited senior scientist, jwilliams@tu.org, (541) 261-3960 Chris Hunt, Trout Unlimited national communications director, chunt@tu.org, (208) 406-9106 Brett Prettyman, Intermountain communications director, bprettyman@tu.org, (801-209-5320) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Trout Unlimited report highlights challenges facing native trout in the U.S. Irrigation infrastructure, wildfire and non-native fish among the biggest threats…