Contacts: Judith Kohler, National Wildlife Federation, kohlerj@nwf.org, 720-315-0855 Randy Scholfield, Trout Unlimited, rscholfield@tu.org, 720-375-3961 Kristyn Brady, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, kbrady@trcp.org, 617-501-6352 Sportsmen call on Interior to protect fish and wildlife habitat on public lands Urge clear planning guidelines for energy development WASHINGTON (Friday, Oct. 27, 2017) As the Interior Department focuses on streamlining energy…
Voices from the River: Return of the Sandy River
TU’s Dean Finnerty fishing the Sandy River as a teenager. By Sam Davidson Ten years ago, on a river revered for its huge wild steelhead, more than a ton of dynamite reduced a 47-foot high dam to rubble. The dam was named after a whistling rodent and the river after a big sandbar early European…
Video spotlight: Spatsizi
I’ve been missing my little girl lately—she’s off on her own adventures now after graduating from high school last spring. But we had some adventures in years past, and this past summer, we met on a little creek high in Idaho’s Caribou National Forest for some fishing. The two of us have always had a…
Short casts: Roadless battle over?; EPA cuts; salmon sex, and more
Some of America’s wildest lands should staty that way if a legal decision last month in Washington has any staying power. The U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia threw out the state of Alaska’s last-ditch effort to undermine the 2001 Roadless Rule, which protects some 50 million acres of public lands, including Alaska’s…
Trout Tips: The windshield never lies
Editor’s note: The following is exerpted from TU’s book, “Trout Tips,” available for online purchase and overnight delivery. I recently took a long drive through Kootenay, Banff and Jasper national parks along the border with British Columbia and Alberta. Throughout the entire drive, delicious, glacial-tinged trout water paralleled my path. Trouble was, save for the…
Voices from the River: One big, angry fish
This hefty Virginia wild brown trout didn’t hit a tiny midge. It hit a big streamer. By Mark Taylor My brother is five years my junior but that didn’t stop us from being competitive as kids, especially once he transformed from a skinny grade schooler to a surly teen. Our tiny shared bedroom was the…
TU welcomes new board members
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 19, 2017 Contacts: Shauna Stephenson, Trout Unlimited, shauna.stephenson@tu.org ; Mark Taylor, Trout Unlimited, mark.taylor@tu.org WASHINGTON, D.C. Trout Unlimited recently welcomed seven new members to its board of trustees at its annual meeting in Roanoke, Va. The new board members bring a mix of conservation expertise, fishing industry acumen, business management experience…