FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 12, 2017 Contact:Nelli Williams, Trout Unlimiteds Alaska Program (907) 230-7121Brian Kraft, Alaska Sportsman’s Lodges, (907) 276-7605 (office) or (907) 227-8719 (cell) Opposition to the Pebble Mine Grows Stronger ANCHORAGE, Alaska Sportsmen and business owners throughout the Bristol Bay region and Alaskans remain steadfast in their opposition to the proposed Pebble Mine…
Students participate in planting day on Salmon Creek
Students from the Salisbury Central School (4th-8th grade) and Sharon Center School (1st – 8th grade) recently participated in a tree-planting event on Salmon Creek at Lime Rock Park in Northwest Connecticut. The event is part of an ongoing restoration initiative on the creek, a tributary to the Housatonic River. The work is helping to…
Short casts: Winston bamboo shop lost to fire, Driftless impact is real, kids release trout
Verta Anne Dorseth photo Here’s a real hearbreaker. The famous shop where the R.L. Winston Co. makes its venerable bamboo fly rods was lost to fire over the weekend. The shop, a must-see destinat ion for fly fishers visiting southwest Montana from the world over, caught fire early Sunday morning and is a total loss.…
What do we have to lose?
Native fish like the Gila trout pictured here can use support in political circles as much as in their rivers. Greg McReynolds/Trout Unlimited By Randy Scholfield Why don’t people care more about conservation and trout? And what can we do to change it? That was the pressing topic that kept coming up recently at the…
'Citizen scientists' enlisted to support SW native trout
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 27, 2017 Contact: Randy Scholfield, TU communications, rscholfield@tu.org, 720-375-3961 Citizen scientists enlisted to support Southwest native trout Stream monitoring will help biologists understand the impacts of climate change (Phoenix)Biologists from Trout Unlimited, the University of Arizona and state and federal agencies this week announced expanded citizen science stream monitoring projects that…
Great TU VSP Events in DC!
Our Trout Unlimited Veterans Service Partnership Advisory Committee gathered at the TU headquarters on Saturday to help move forward the work of bringing the full weight of TU’s 155,000 members and 400+ local chapters to deploy across the nation engaging and supporting local military and veteran families through angling and community. We are so grateful…
TU Business Spotlight: Lillard Fly Fishing Expeditions
Not long ago, I read that the average American kid spends about seven hours a day in front of a screen of some type, but only about seven minutes a day outside. As a parent and a grandparent, those numbers sent a chill through me. If kids aren’t outside, how can we expect them to…