TU Business Spotlight: Trout Scapes River Restoration, LLC

By Walt Gasson Like any great company, Trout Scapes River Restoration, LLC is about great people. Brian Cowden is one of those great people. Brian comes to Trout Scapes after being the VP of Sales and Marketing for a Montana based river restoration firm. Prior to that role, Brian worked at Trout Unlimited where he…

Partnership the key in quest for wild trout in PA

By Dave Kinney In the summer of 2016, Trout Unlimited, in partnership with Audubon Pennsylvania and the Kittattiny Ridge Coalition, electroshocked 41 streams in Northampton, Carbon, Monroe, and Schuylkill counties. Survey teams led by TU scientists were hiking into small, forgotten waters searching for unknown populations of wild trout—and in one out of every three…

Video spotlight: Small Creeks Flyout

Brian Kraft is an important parter in Trout Unlimited’s work to protect Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed from the proposed Pebble Mine and what would be the largest open-pit mining operation on the planet. He’s the proprietor at Alaska’s Sportsman’s Lodge, and if you think the mine isn’t personal to him, or the staff of guides…

Bill honoring steelhead legends reintroduced

Senator’s Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley reintroduced legislation today that would protect one of the country’s best remaining populations of wild steelhead. The “Frank and Jeanne Moore Wild Steelhead Special Management Area” bill will safeguard more than 100,000 acres of habitat on the famed North Umpqua. “Trout Unlimited applauds the determined leadership of Oregon Senators’…

TU hails Bennet bill to protect Thompson Divide

ThompsonDivide.jpg U.S. Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado introduced legislation this week to permanently protect 172,000 acres of the Thompson Divide from oil and gas development. If signed into law, the Thompson Divide and Withdrawal Act of 2017 would withdraw most of the public lands in the Thompson Divide, a pristine area with extremely productive and…