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Conserving freshwater biodiversity in California
A native Chinook salmon from California's Central Valley. Conservation of freshwater biodiversity faces major challenges. The fragmented nature of freshwater habitats often results in species populations being highly vulnerable to extirpation. Moreover, areas managed for resource conservation typically reflect jurisdictional or landscape boundaries that have little meaning for aquatic species. Now, a team of scientists…
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Fly tying: The hobby knife
Back in my early newspaper days, when we actually used flats to lay pages out on lightboards, I never went anywhere without my trusty X-Acto knife. I used it to trim border tape, surgically slice columns to fit the allotted space and do all sorts of trimming once the actual journalism was done and producing…
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Voices from the River: Many hats
Jessica Strickland and her daughter Vida, project managing in the Sequoia National Forest backcountry. By Jessica Strickland Working with Trout Unlimited really is just NOT boring. What we do as field staff is so diverse that I have become a woman of many hats. A recent weekend was a great example of how what we…
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Trout Tips: Now is the time for lake trout
A lake trout from Shoshone Lake, Yellowstone National Park. Photo by Chris Hunt. I live within a two-hour drive of Yellowstone Lake, the site of one of the greatest environmental tragedies involving native trout in recent memory. In 1994, a non-native lake trout was caught and documented in Yellowstone Lake. Just over a decade later,…
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Donegal TU Veterans Service Partnership Hosts Rivers of Recovery
Congratulations to Donegal TU Veterans Service Partnership program, VSP Coordinator Bill Nolan, and all the Donegal TU volunteers for putting together this great event with Rivers of Recovery. This is a great example of how the "P" word (partnership) in the VSP is supposed to work! Job well done! Donegal (PA) TU VSP Hosts Rivers…
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Economic analysis shows watershed groups such as TU improve water quality
A recent economic study confirmed what the thousands of Trout Unlimited volunteers and our partner watershed groups already know: TU's work directly benefits water quality and makes fishing better. (Trout Unlimited photo) By Chris Branham, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. — Economists have found that in the United States, watershed groups have had a positive…
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Thanks for the memories
A good bank to fall down to land a fish. By Chris Wood I woke this morning dreaming that I was on point on a two-on-one fast break. I measure the distance from my ground blind to a target through various pass patterns. “That’s a down-and-out; that’s a post;” and so on. I still consider…