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Tony Lewis: A Champion for kid’s fishing
After a grueling year, most teachers look forward to the end of the school year and a much-needed rest with a great deal of relief and anticipation. Stream champion Tony Lewis, however, gladly extends his school year, spearheading the popular weeklong Kenai Peninsula TU Youth Flyfishing Camp. “It may seem counterintuitive,” he says, “but…
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Volunteers roll up their sleeves to embrace two struggling western waters
Healing a river takes time. It takes skill and knowledge. It takes funding and resources. It takes communication and partnership building. Most importantly, it takes planning, passion and persistence. For Clear Creek in Colorado and LaBarge Creek in Wyoming, Trout Unlimited volunteers and staff have brought all of those needs together thanks to two Embrace…
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TU and supporters continue to help communities impacted by Hurricane Helene
Recent events have included tree plantings and tree giveaways in North Carolina and Tennessee When Hurricane Helene moved inland over the Southeast, it dropped as much as 30 inches of rain on small mountain towns like Marion, N.C., Roan Mountain, Tenn., and many other communities. The flooding was catastrophic, the damage unprecedented and, sadly, at…
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Play, learn, serve, lead
Fifteen years before National Volunteer Week was officially recognized, Trout Unlimited (TU) was founded on a revolutionary premise: grassroots volunteers would anchor our work in the watersheds, communities and riverbeds of our mission. 65 years later, TU continues to thrive in over 400 communities across the U.S., thanks to volunteers who march steadily onward, planting…
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TU members and volunteers mobilize to help communities impacted by Helene
Trout Unlimited’s Overmountain Chapter in Tennessee hosts a fishing day the first Saturday of each month. Participants meet in the morning and then, after considering conditions and the number of anglers who show, decide where to go. On Oct. 5, less than a week after the remnants of Hurricane Helene ravaged the Southeast, fishing was…
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Not giving up on natives
Southeast volunteers of all ages offer brook trout a hand
Southeast volunteers of all ages offer brook trout a hand With all due respect to all the legendary trout states in America, perhaps my favorite Trout Unlimited trip was to my home state of New Jersey. A few TU legendary volunteers, such as Agust Gudmundsson, Rick Axt, Rich Thomas, and the late Rick Ege, offered…
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Volunteers Help Girl Scout Troop Earn First STREAM Girls Badges in New York State
The TU STREAM Girls program expands traditional elements of STEM education to include Recreation and the Arts. Some of the first NY STREAM Girls from Troop 61011 in Honeoye Falls, NY (Dan Hucko photo) In July, thirteen girls from Girl Scout Troop 61011 in Honeoye Falls became the first New York state recipients of the…
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