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Another serving of Turkey (Creek) for the Gila Centennial
Multi-million-dollar effort to restore headwater streams in Gila National Forest takes flight ahead of 100th Anniversary of Gila Wilderness Since the catastrophic Whitewater Baldy Fire of 2012, Gila trout have had a difficult time in the headwater streams of the Gila National Forest. While fire has always been a part of the Gila landscape, in…
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The True Cast – Enough is enough. Please, no more trucks in rivers.
Over the past several years, trying to convince automakers to stop marketing their trucks and SUVs with ads, brochures, social media campaigns and the like that depict those vehicles splashing through rivers has been a Sisyphean task. Like playing Whac-A-Mole, as soon as we address the issue with one company—some of them actually listen and…
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A Busy Summer on the Salmon SuperHwy
In 2014, TU and our partners with the Salmon SuperHwy came together with the shared vision of reconnecting over 180 miles of historic spawning and rearing habitat for salmon, steelhead and other native species on the rivers of Oregon’s North Coast. Some of these rivers include the Tillamook, Trask, Kilchis, Wilson, Miami, Nestucca, Little Nestucca,…
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Improving Habitat in a Great Basin Oasis
Fed from the jagged peaks of the Sierras on the eastern border of Yosemite, the East Walker River flows through two states and numerous different ecosystems before meeting its terminus in Walker Lake. Within the newly established Walker River State Recreation Area (WRSRA) in Nevada, it provides an oasis in the harsh high desert for…
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TU and Forest Service team up to close damaged road in Georgia
Let’s get this out of the way. Rolling through muddy, tricky terrain in a tough four-wheel-drive rig or a burly ATV can be fun. But there is a time and place for mud-bogging, and one of the places where it doesn’t fit is in and around delicate trout streams. That’s the reason Trout Unlimited and…
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Trout Unlimited Restructures Across the Rockies
New leadership and investments in people reflect growing federal partnerships and project funding across the region. Last week, TU announced a series of new investments in its people to accommodate the growing number of partnerships across the Rocky Mountains. Over the last decade, TU has secured roughly $133 million in funding partnerships to initiate and build more…
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Escaping Upstream
Both anglers and trout find less stress upstream
Both anglers and trout find less stress upstream Upon crossing the Mackinac Bridge into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, I exhaled and slowed a bit. The speed limit drops from the Lower Peninsula, but so does the pace of life as the highway crosses through friendly small towns and across seemingly countless trout rivers and…