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This Land is Your Land: The Uncivilized Outdoorsman Vidal Gonzales
Today, we are highlighting Vidal Gonzales, owner of The Uncivilized Outdoorsman (UO).
Our public lands are the foundation of healthy watersheds and strong communities. From remote trout streams to working forests and rangelands, these places provide clean water, vital trout habitat and public access for all Americans. But pressures like efforts to sell off and privatize public land threaten what makes them so valuable. This blog series…
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The A-ROD Project: A 24-Hour New Mexico trout slam
Meet the Team Zeke Soliz (Director / Editor)A graduate of the Creative Media Institute in Las Cruces, Zeke juggled postproduction deadlines with his final semester classes—proving that a little academic pressure can fuel a big creative drive. Esteban “Stev” Molina (Wildland Firefighter / Angler)Born and raised in Silver City, Stev knows New Mexico’s waterways like…
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New Mexico Legislature 2025: A banner year for trout
It’s not every year that a state can protect and restore its natural resources or reimagine how they are managed. In its 2025 session, New Mexico state legislators had three such opportunities and admirably met the moment. In no small part due to the efforts of Trout Unlimited, the legislature prioritized modern wildlife management, its…
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Faces of Restoration: Jim Brooks guards the Gila
TU works with some extremely talented people while developing and completing projects in the field that help make fishing better. We are excited to bring you a series highlighting these contractors. We hire equipment operators, truck drivers, laborers, material suppliers, engineers, technicians and water testing labs. They are unique, talented, humble and some are downright wild, but TU’s contractors are a…
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Trout Unlimited and partners secure over $117 million in federal funding for the Colorado River
Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, and Tribal communities stand to receive substantial economic benefits for local conservation priorities Late last week, the Bureau of Reclamation awarded a new round of federal funding grants for 42 conservation projects totaling $388.3 million across the Upper Colorado River Basin. Out of this pool of funding, TU is a…
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Sustaining wildlife and ancestral land uses together
It started with a mouse, the New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse, which was listed in 2014 under the Endangered Species Act. The listing closed an important pasture to grazing and also locked out trout anglers from fishing the Rio Cebolla. United in their belief that the mouse could be preserved along with ranching and fishing,…
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Guardians of the Gila Wilderness
Rambunctious tales from the first century of America’s first Wilderness Come and get it, you SOBs!” bellowed camp cook and retired New Mexico Game and Fish game warden Lief Ahlm. The refrain has become our dinner bell for the chow line during several days in the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico, where we have gathered…
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