The long game: TU and the Yuba River

Getting bent on the lower Yuba River. The Yuba River is one of California’s many coldwater fishery jewels. In its upper forks the Yuba is a fine freestone trout stream; in the reach between Englebright Dam, where the river flows into the Central Valley, and its confluence with the Feather River near Marysville, the Yuba…

Fish in hot water on the North Umpqua

Trout Unlimited and Wild Steelheaders United applaud the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for taking action to protect wild summer steelhead in the North Umpqua River. Last week, the ODFW sent out a press release announcing that the heralded “Fly Water” of the North Umpqua will be closed to angling from 2:00 p.m. until…

Recreation, fish businesses put at risk in potential Roadless Rule changes in Tongass, Chugach National Forests

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 2, 2018 Contact: Austin Williams, Trout Unlimited, 907-227-1590, awilliams@tu.org Recreation, fish businesses put at risk in potential Roadless Rule changes in Tongass, Chugach National Forests Recreational business owners, anglers react to renewed effort by state to increase industrial development, access to old-growth stands for logging in Alaska national forests JUNEAU, AK…

TU and the Forest Service continue Tincup Creek restoration on the Caribou

Trout Unlimited and the Caribou-Targhee National Forest announced today that the Tincup Creek Stream Restoration Project’s second phase is currently under way in eastern Idaho. The project is a large-scale, multi-phased project begun in 2017 to improve ecosystem function and habitat for native cutthroat trout and other native fish species on four miles of degraded…

Voices from the River: Extreme behavior

The iconic Sundial Bridge, spanning the Lower Sacramento River in downtown Redding, California before and during the Carr Fire. By Sam Davidson California is burning. There are 17 wildfires charring the Golden State, at present. The biggest and gnarliest (of 2018, anyway) is the Carr Fire, which has torched more than 100,000 acres, mostly of…

TU lauds new public lands bill for NW California

The northwest corner of California, between the Russian and Klamath Rivers, is home to some of the best remaining salmon and steelhead streams in the West. This region boasts some of the most famous steelhead fisheries in the world, including the Trinity, Mad, Mattole, and Eel River systems . Trout Unlimited’s North Coast Coho Project…