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• Conservation From the field

  In Michigan, schoolkids get their hands dirty for healthy trout

  

  What images come to mind when you picture your schoolyard from childhood? Do you see stark, barren scenes dominated by hardscapes?   Or verdant, lush environments teeming with songbirds and pollinators?  On a hot day last May, Crestwood Elementary School in Michigan took a step toward the second vision thanks to staffers from Trout Unlimited, local partners and the school—as…

• From the President From the field

  Why “Infrastructure Week” was a big deal for trout and salmon

  

  What do bridges, highways, and rail have to do with wild and native trout and salmon? In the case of the recently enacted bipartisan infrastructure bill, known as the BIF, a whole lot. TU staff played important roles in helping to shape many important provisions in the bill. At a deeper level, TU has spent…

• Government Affairs Conservation Featured

  Senate passes ‘transformational’ infrastructure bill for fish

  

  Let’s face it: the word infrastructure suggests concrete, rebar and L.A. freeway interchanges rather than productive coldwater fisheries and a fine day of wading a clear, cold trout stream. Yet infrastructure is mission-critical for Trout Unlimited. That’s why TU has launched groundbreaking programs such as the Salmon SuperHwy in Oregon. The infrastructure bill includes $1…

• Voices from the river Featured

  Taking in the infrastructure of nature in New Mexico

  

  Humans are coming to grips with the damage we've done ... and the need to repair it Even in New Mexico, a state so over-endowed with emptiness that one can find a place to hide a body almost anywhere, Gila country is about the loneliest place imaginable.  The closer you get, as I realized on…

• Conservation

  Infrastructure going green in Rogue River watershed

  

  By Jamie Vaughan Hairy Penstemon is blooming at the Parkside Elementary Rain Garden in Michigan. This rain garden is a type of green infrastructure utilizing native plants to help developed areas function more naturally, thus keeping polluted and warmed stormwater runoff out of Rum Creek. We were out in the community with Abigail Henschell (pictured above),…