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Trout and Salmon Book Passage to Prime Habitat Through Infrastructure Funding
Grants funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will open fish passage for trout, salmon. Have you ever fished a perfect headwater stream that should have held trout – but didn’t? It can be perplexing – and frustrating. Throughout trout country, though, passage to prime coldwater habitat is often blocked by perched culverts at road crossings…
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A Monumental Action at the Grand Canyon
New national monument would permanently protect the region from uranium mining and conserve important fish and wildlife habitat . Grand Canyon overlook showing the Colorado River Earlier this week, 11 local Tribal Nations hosted a press conference in conjunction with Congressman Raúl Grijalva and Senator Kyrsten Sinema to call upon President Biden to establish our nation’s…
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American Fisheries Society provides TU scientists a place of community
By Dan Dauwalter In these unusual and somewhat isolating times of Zoom meetings and working from home, I thought it would be interesting to reflect on and profile the professional development and global networking opportunities I’ve had over the last few years through the American Fisheries Society. I’ve been a scientist in TU’s Science Program for…
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2018 Was a Wet Blanket
The fly shop conversation at my last visit was about how few times any of us were able to go trout fishing during 2018 because of all the rain—with stream flows too heavy to allow safe fishing. One friend said that he had not bought a license to fish in some nearby states this year…