A year-end message to the TU community
As the year draws to a close, let’s celebrate a few of the victories that all of you—members, supporters, partners, donors, and our staff around the country—made possible
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Traditions: Pig tails and pink spots
Dustin Wichterman and daughter Brooklynn quickly pose with a West Virginia brook trout before releasing the fish. By Dustin Wichterman To say that angling has always been a big part of my life is probably an understatement. It has been imprinted from both sides of my family, and after finding out that several of my…
TU advocates urge support for Chesapeake Bay funding
Sen. Shelly Moore Capito (R-W.Va) recently met with Trout Unlimited’s Dustin Wichterman (right) and West Virginia landowner Greg Hulver to discuss how federal funding, such as through the Chesapeake Bay Program and several Farm Bill programs, has contributed to West Virginia trout stream and farm restoration success. (Photo courtesy of Sen. Capito’s office.) By Mark…
As Zen and Cool as it gets
The outsize conservation legacy of a garage bamboo rod builder.
Voices from the River: The Bucket Brigade, a family tradition
By Dustin Wichterman As I crested the edge of Swago Mountain at daybreak, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of nostalgia. Thinking back to excerpts from GD McNeil’s The Last Forest, his accounts from the early 1900s of brook trout by the hundreds and fish as big as 18 inches made me yearn for…
Orvis backs Battenkill Home Rivers Initiative
Trout Unlimited launched the Battenkill Home Rivers Initiative in 2020. Orvis has chosen the program as the beneficiary of its Giving Tuesday efforts on Nov. 30, 2021, pledging 10 percent of profits to the program.
Little kids and small streams deserve the Clean Water Act
By Chris Wood The Little Cacapon is a small river in West Virginia with a few awesome swimming holes. The river is part of the headwaters of the Potomac River which flows through the nation’s capitol. My family and I gather frogs, look for crawfish, rough-house, catch bluegill and rockbass, and generally enjoy each other’s…
12 hours and 305 miles of trout restoration in Virginia
Surveying a recent Trout Unlimited dam removal site deep in Virginia’s mountains, Dylan Cooper made sure to not just focus on what wasn’t there anymore, but what remained.
Nudging streams back to health
Gary recalls talking to a road engineer more familiar with channelizing and straightening rivers in response to floods. As he looked over the work “his face fell from pink to grey, and he said, ‘We have been doing this wrong for 100 years.’”
TU’s best photos of 2019
Every year has its big moments. The ones we vividly remember. The moments that stick out so much in your mind you don’t need a visual reminder of what it felt like when you were there. Those are the easy ones. I’m reminded of the moments in which I was in the Nevada desert, in…
Three questions for the Chairman of the Board
Longtime leader Terry Hyman talks about why he’s bullish on Trout Unlimited.
Why Trout Unlimited backed the infrastructure and climate laws
The answer starts with our mission to care for and recover rivers and wild and native fish.
Time forgot this place. We haven’t.
Why folks at Trout Unlimited care so much about a shad fishery up the road from the Washington monument
Pipelines: With so much at stake, we have to get it right
Major energy development proposals have such enormous implications for our waters and fisheries that there must be a high bar for approval
Recovering the natural wealth of our rivers
A healthy brook trout stream in West Virginia. Editor’s note: This is part one of a two part series on brook trout restoration in West Virginia, and well, everywhere else. About six weeks ago, while helping the Department of Natural Resources to stock trout in a stream, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said, “We dump…
Potomac Patuxent
Potomac Patuxent Trout Unlimited Chapter #236 website. Holds meeting information, calendar of upcoming events, Outings, registration forms, Fly Tying & Rod Building info, issues of chapter newsletter “Conservationist”, monthly chapter meetings, Committee members, Officers and Board Members.
The Clean Water Act: An American success story
Editor’s note: This column was originally published in the Washington Post on Sept. 23, 2019 The announcement that the Environmental Protection Agency was scrapping Obama-era rules designed to protect small streams and wetlands made me recall a misty morning this spring on the Potomac River above Georgetown. I brought a striped bass, locally known as…
Every river needs a champion.
Look in the mirror. What you see is a champion.