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Alaska’s Indigenous communities at work in the Tongass
Southeast Alaska tribes have long cared for their lands. Now they’re at work restoring them. At nearly 17 million acres, Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is part of the world’s largest remaining intact temperate rain forest and produces around 30 percent of annual salmon catch in the western United States. The Tongass is home to…
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Beers, backcountry, e-bikes: Angler scientists at work
A volunteer chapter in Washington State is going the distance to collect trout and salmon eDNA samples in their home water Fed by glaciers and deep snowpack, the Nooksack River joins the Pacific Ocean near Bellingham, Washington, a half-hour drive south of the Canadian border. Upstream, the basin’s cold headwaters originate high in the Cascade…
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Unfishing Season
Abstaining from fishing doesn’t just happen. There must be a reason. As New Mexico swims through its third fat month of monsoon season, I’ve barely noticed how much water is in our streams. Winter was scary dry, then our shirt-sleeve spring collided with New Mexico’s largest-ever wildfire. Every morning from April to July, I stepped…
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‘No constituency for orange rivers’
It’s time for Congress to jump-start abandoned mine cleanups In testimony before Congress, Trout Unlimited President and CEO Chris Wood pressed lawmakers to clear the way for “Good Samaritan” agencies and groups like TU to clean up pollution from abandoned hardrock mines that plague the landscape. Chris Wood's testimony begins at 00:49 Every single day,…
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‘A. Very. Large. Brown. Trout.’
To catch the biggest fish, sometimes you just need to be in the current MARTINSVILLE, Va. — “Right! Right!” Hunter Hatcher was yelling as he furiously pulled on the raft’s oars. Turning, I saw the reason for his exuberance: a brown trout. A. Very. Large. Brown. Trout. OK. Maybe not very large by Tierra del…
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5 questions for TU’s fisheries science pro
Dan Dauwalter, director of fisheries science, has answers on native trout and cutting-edge fisheries technology Over the past few years, groups of scientists hiked into the White Mountains of Arizona with heavy sampling gear to search remote streams for the threatened Apache trout. It was arduous work, but back in the office, Dan Dauwalter may…
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The second coming of the Apache trout
In a first, a salmonid is on track for delisting from the list of threatened and endangered species The promise of gold and opportunity has long been a driving force of settlement across the American West, much to the detriment of native populations and the iconic landscapes now in need of prolonged restoration and conservation…