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Five Rivers Odyssey: American Salmon Forest
The Tongass National Forest is often referred to as America’s Salmon Forest because the entire ecosystem depends on salmon in one way or another. Salmon can be traced all the way to the trees, and the cycle runs full circle. Animals that feed on salmon drag the carcasses into forest, effectively applying thousands of pounds…
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Voices from the River: Teachers and preachers
By Toner Mitchell The four-day gathering was a professional development course for secondary school teachers, its mission to explore the nexus of fly fishing, religion and philosophy, and how the re sulting ferment might motivate resource conservation in anglers (and students). We discussed several texts, some Thoreau, a PhD thesis arguing that fly fishing naturally…
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Inyo National Forest releases Final Revised Management Plan
Backcountry meadow stream, Kern Plateau, Inyo National Forest A newly released resource management plan for public lands in California's southern Sierra reflects Trout Unlimited's long-term investment in such planning across the country. This region is home to some of the most unique coldwater fish, habitat and fishing opportunities in North America, including the native range…
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Promoting biodiversity in streams and in TU’s membership
The author with his fly-fishing instructor, Maddie. By Jeffrey Constantz The week before I started my internship with Trout Unlimited, I had the opportunity to learn fly fishing for the very first time. I had the honor of receiving guidance from a true master. Her name’s Maddie. She’s my girlfriend. I came of age bass…
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Video spotlight: How to fish small dry flies in low light
Here's a pretty common challenge: you're on a great stretch of trout water at last light, and fish are rising to small mayflies or tiny micro-caddis flies. You have the right fly, but in the low light, there's virtually no chance you're going to be able to see it. How many times have you been…
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Trout Tips: Dust your fly
This time of year, when dry-fly fishing is about all I do here on the creeks and streams of the Yellowstone region, I have become a fan of the silica-based fly "dusts" that help soak up water from spent dry flies and give them a second life. Most of us, when fishing dries, apply that…
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TU urges public comment on new designation for PA streams
A fine wild trout from Glade Run, southwest Pennsylvania By David Kinney Paradise Creek, Tank Creek, and Devils Hole Creek are small freestone streams running through an area of the Poconos in northeast Pennsylvania that is 90 percent forest and water. All these waters harbor healthy populations of wild trout, and the Brodhead Chapter of…
