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We went to court to defend Bristol Bay. Here’s what happened.
June in Bristol Bay, Alaska is supposed to be about fish. Not fights in court. In late June, at the height of the world’s largest wild salmon run, advocates had to leave their fishing boats, subsistence sites, and businesses for the courtroom of the U.S. District Court for Alaska in Anchorage. Why? Because the Pebble Limited Partnership,…
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Back to the future for the Boundary Waters
I was just a boy when I first heard about the Boundary Waters. Back in the 1980’s, ESPN’s Saturday morning fishing shows were must-watch TV, with The Fishin’ Hole anchoring the lineup. During one episode, Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight joined show host Jerry McKinnis for a canoe trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, outside Ely, Minnesota. Canoes, camping, catching smallmouth bass on poppers, shore lunches of…
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Lindsay Slater in action in DC.
When people think about Trout Unlimited, they often conjure thoughts of trout, sure, but also river restoration, tree plantings, river cleanups, salmon, steelhead, and a multitude of other things. But our advocacy work in D.C. is just as critical to this work. TU staff such as Lindsay Slater, TU’s vice president of government affairs, often…
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Good Sam – how we got here
Do you remember what you were doing in 2004? Here are a few memory-joggers: Facebook was launched. The last episode of the sitcom Friends was aired. President George W. Bush was reelected, narrowly defeating John Kerry. Trout Unlimited and the Forest Service launched a partnership to begin cleaning up abandoned mines in the western US.…
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TU stands up for Snake River salmon in congressional hearing
Trout Unlimited vice president of government affairs, Lindsay Slater, represented salmon advocates in Congress Tuesday at a hearing ominously titled, “Left in the Dark: Examining the Biden Administration’s Efforts to Eliminate the Pacific Northwest’s Clean Energy Production.” Slater, who grew up on a fifth-generation family farm on the Wallowa River in eastern Oregon, told the…
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Defending Protections for Bristol Bay
Bristol Bay Orgs & TU file briefs in State of Alaska Lawsuit Against EPA In January 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized Clean Water Act 404(c) safeguards for the headwaters of Bristol Bay, Alaska. These protections prohibit the proposed Pebble Mine and were widely celebrated by Bristol Bay tribes, the commercial fishing industry, anglers…
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TU calls on the BLM for oil and gas rulemaking to keep trout habitat healthy
A Q&A with TU’s western energy director Tasha Sorensen on the continued need to update oil and gas rulemaking procedures With a new balance of power in D.C. taking hold and a new Congress settling into their duties, a familiar problem remains for anglers and conservationists across the West: speculative oil and gas leasing on…
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