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Rounding out the fishing part of this Grand Canyon National Monument cast and blast is my visit Lee’s Ferry, one of Arizona’s best blue-ribbon trout fisheries.
Finding resilience in a summer of reckoning across the Rockies and Southwest We’ve all seen the headlines: fast growing wildfires, record low snowpack, drying reservoirs, heat waves, hoot owl restrictions, mandatory fishing closures and other worrisome conditions for our favorite coldwater critters. But for humans, too, these challenges remain stubborn after 25+ years of drought in a lot of the West. Across the Colorado…
This film covers Trout Unlimited’s work on a small tributary in Wyoming that hosts four native fish species, including the Colorado River cutthroat trout.
STATE OF THE BASIN For far too long, the Colorado River has been overused and overworked. Despite this year’s epic winter, the system’s largest reservoirs are still less than a third full, while the Basin faces threats to its environmental, economic, and cultural values. With so much at stake for the future of the Colorado…
Hear from TU’s Colorado River Basin staff about what you can do to help protect trout amid drought conditions
More than 70 organizations from across the Colorado River Basin launch a coalition to stabilize water supplies Denver, CO – A broad coalition of organizations from throughout the Colorado River Basin is urging Congress to provide at least $2 billion in new federal funding to begin to address the region’s escalating water supply crisis. The…
In the Colorado River, not far from Rocky Mountain National Park, wild trout are returning to a once-degraded stretch of water.
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I had a choice this weekend. I could head down to Shenandoah National Park and fish for native brookies or ply the Potomac for blue catfish and perhaps an occasional schoolie striper. I chose the Potomac. While I love fishing the Potomac, after multiple days of high temperatures, I didn’t feel great about tugging on bespeckled jewels, even in cold small mountain streams. Your actions…
A massive package of legislation, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is currently working its way through Congress, having been passed by the Senate earlier this week. If enacted, this bill would make essential investments of remarkable size and scope to help the nation address the impacts of climate change, including some of the worst impacts of the…
In this final installment of the Western Water 101 series we’ll turn our attention to current events to draw together some of the topics and themes we’ve explored over the course of the series. With the extremely dry conditions throughout the West, TU’s work—from on-the-ground projects to legislative advocacy and agency collaboration—is more important than ever. The current drought crisis in the region draws together many of the themes discussed over the…
Meet, Dr. Sara Porterfield.
TU is excited to put funding made available by BlueCommons to use by speeding up two multi-year watershed restoration projects – one in Wyoming’s Sage Creek and the other in Arizona’s Black River.
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For Immediate Release: Thursday, June 23, 2016 Contact: Margaret Delaney, Margaret.Delaney@berlinrosen.com, 202-800-8689 National Conservation, Sportsmen Groups Applaud USDA-DOI Announcement of New Coordination of Water Conservation Efforts in the Colorado River Basin Announcement Responds to Calls from Conservation Leaders, Gov. Hickenlooper, Sen. Bennet for Greater Coordination Between Federal Grant Programs to Protect Communities and Critical Water…
New TU film gives a case study of how TU is leasing water rights to benefit rural communities and restore a former Blue Ribbon trout fishery.
Editor’s note: To kick off our education series exploring the complexities of water in the West, we interview author and TU’s water policy associate for its Western Water and Habitat Program, Sara Porterfield. How long have you been with TU and what do you work on day-to-day? Sara Porterfield: I started with TU in October…
For Immediate Release: May 4, 2017Contact: Michael Pauker, Michael.Pauker@berlinrosen.com, 646-335-0330 National Conservation, Sportsmen Groups Applaud Passage of Congressional Omnibus Spending BillThe bill contains more than $1.3 billion in vital funding and protections for Western water resources, including the Colorado River National conservation and sportsmen groups applauded passage through Congress of a new omnibus spending bill.…
For immediate release June 27, 2018 Contact: Steve Moyer, TU government affairs, smoyer@tu.org, 571-274-0593 Randy Scholfield, Trout Unlimited communications, 720-375-3961, randy.scholfield@tu.org Senate reauthorizes program that helps farmers and ranchers conserve water Program helps ease impacts of long-term drought in Colorado River Basin Washington D.C.The Senate voted Monday to reauthorize a program that helps farmers and…
TU partners with Lighthawk and American Rivers to highlight three conservation projects helping to recover the Colorado River Basin