Major League Baseball’s first pitches will start flying in less than a week. In generations past, another spring opener generated even more excitement among certain folks. The annual trout season opener was a major event. Trout openers have gradually faded away. Some states still have them — such as Missouri, pictured above — but many
Bob Russell, owner of the Butte Creek Mill and savior of salmon and steelhead. By Chrysten Lambert On Christmas Day, 2015 tragedy struck the historic Butte Creek Mill when it burned to the ground. The flour mill, which is located on the banks of Little Butte Creek, was the only remaining hydro-powered mill still in
Raymond Phares (left) of Circleville, W.Va., traveled to Washington DC in late March to meet with Congressional offices in support of funding for the Chesapeake Bay Program. He was accompanied by Trout Unlimited’s Dustin Wichterman, who oversee’s TU’s restoration efforts in the up per Potomac watershed. By Mark Taylor Trout Unlimited staffers and volunteers converged
The Mill Creek Dam Fish Passage Project site, post-construction and just prior to this winter’s heavy rains. The roughened main channel and side channel will make it easier for coho and steelhead to migrate past the site. As record-breaking rains pounded northern California over the past three months, emphatically ending five years of extreme drought
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Matt Clifford, Trout Unlimited mclifford@tu.org 406-370-9431Patty Madigan, Mendocino County RCD pmad@mcn.org 707-937-3082 Trout Unlimited, Mendocino County RCD awarded major grantto boost streamflows, improve water security in key Eel River tributary Wildlife Conservation Board grant will help residents reduce impacts of water diversions on native salmon and steelhead (March 20, 2017) UKIAH,
The new confluence of Deming Creek and the South Fork Sprague River. By Chrysten Lambert Trout Unlimited, in partnership with the US Fish and Wildlife Service Parnter’s Program completed a substantial habitat reconnection project on the South Fork Sprague River, the headwaters of the iconic Klamath River. The project involved restoring the Deming Creek tributary
“The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.”— President Teddy Roosevelt [STAND UP FOR CONSE RVATION FUNDING HERE] Land and water conservation are taking a direct hit in President Trumps proposed budget. In his message to
