Priority Waters
Picture a native trout in a river, suspended in the flow. Or wild salmon flooding into a stream, following instincts handed down over too many generations to count.
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Conservation Towns – Honorable Mentions
Conservation Towns Celebrating Rural America What are Conservation Towns? In America’s “Conservation Towns,” rural communities that survived the past century’s boom-and-bust cycles are building new blueprints for economic success by tapping into their most important assets: the rivers and streams, public lands and wild landscapes that have always sustained them. At Trout Unlimited, we are putting a spotlight on these communities at the heart of the work…
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Priority Waters Workgroup
The NLC Priority Waters Workgroup (NLC PW WG) advances the Trout Unlimited Priority Waters Program by enhancing communication and fostering collaboration to expand the Priority Waters Program. Join our virtual meetings We meet on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 8 pm ET. Email Jeff Plackis or Greg Hardy for more information. Committee contacts…
Highlights from the 2026 Western Regional Rendezvous
Nearly 200 Trout Unlimited staff, chapter representatives from across the West and sponsors gathered in Montana for the 2026 Western Regional Rendezvous, a working retreat for the future of coldwater conservation.
Conserving the lands and waters of the Magalloway
Four conservation organizations have joined forces to purchase and permanently protect a massive tract of wild forestland in Maine’s north country, and some Trout Unlimited stream champions are doing their part to help seal the deal.
A National Network of Priority Waters
Our Priority Waters approach borrows heavily from the portfolio concept by ensuring that risk for trout and salmon is spread across a variety of habitats and populations.
Caring for and recovering priority waters
Here lies the promise of our plans to develop a shared agenda of priority waters.
Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Announce Support for Legislation that Will Help Protect Habitat and Sporting Opportunity on California Public Land
Contacts: Katie Hawkins, California Policy Manager, Trout Unlimited katie.hawkins@tu.org, (530) 414-0388 Joel Weltzien, California Chapter Coordinator, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers weltzien@backcountryhunters.org, (406) 925-3771 Sacramento, CA — Trout Unlimited (TU) and the California Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (BHA) announced their support for California Assembly Bill 1624, which will conserve habitat and sporting opportunity by protecting the conservation value of any federal public lands within the state that are…
Legacy Contracting: Building bridges for fish and communities on the Salmon SuperHwy
On Oregon’s beautiful North Coast rivers, the Salmon SuperHwy is working hard to reconnect over 180 miles of high-priority, historic salmon, steelhead, lamprey and cutthroat trout habitat in the Tillamook, Nestucca and Sand Lake watersheds.
Priority Waters – Get your hands dirty
The Trout Unlimited Priority Waters initiative is all about pulling together to care for and recover America’s trout and salmon watersheds. Our vision: volunteers and staff working hand-in-hand with partners and allies in their communities to protect, reconnect and restore more than 200 Priority Waters from Alaska to North Carolina, from California to Maine. We…
Reconnection Report Card — New York Priority Waters
Trout Unlimited’s staff and municipal partners continue to work diligently to complete a wide-spanning list of New York priority culvert surveys and replacements. The reconnection of fragmented and dammed rivers resides at the core of our strategy to improve habitat for New York’s wild trout. With our small but mighty team, we reconnected over 30…
New StoryMap Showcases Conservation Successes and Future Priorities in the Driftless Area
Several great apps can help anglers navigate to primo fishing spots in the Driftless area. Now, a new interactive ArcGIS StoryMap adds another layer of information, showcasing where Trout Unlimited’s collaboration with the National Fish Habitat Partnership is creating conservation successes across the region and making fishing even better. The Driftless Area Restoration Effort (TU DARE) is a long-running collaborative initiative focused on restoring coldwater streams, improving fish habitat, and strengthening watershed…
There’s hope for endangered salmon and steelhead
TU’s sticktuitiveness at work on a Priority Water in California
New map highlights 2023 infrastructure upgrades in Great Lakes priority waters
2023 was a good year for Great Lakes coldwater conservation, marked by an influx of federal funding for necessary infrastructure upgrades.
Conservation Towns – Celebrating Rural America
Conservation Towns Celebrating Rural America What are Conservation Towns? In America’s “Conservation Towns,” rural communities that survived the past century’s boom-and-bust cycles are building new blueprints for economic success by tapping into their most important assets: the rivers and streams, public lands and wild landscapes that have always sustained them. At Trout Unlimited, we are putting a spotlight on these communities at the heart of the work…
Trout Unlimited initiative tackling rising threats to key trout & salmon watersheds
Nation’s largest coldwater conservation nonprofit identifies 200+ “Priority Waters” where work is needed to reverse declines of wild and native fish Contacts: ARLINGTON, Va.—Wild and native trout and salmon, as coldwater fish in a warming world, are facing enormous threats. More than 1.5 million miles of America’s trout and salmon waters are degraded, and populations…
Blue Lines & Brook Trout – Mapping Critical Spawning Habitat in Connecticut’s Priority Waters
Trout Unlimited and Connecticut DEEP band together for wild trout data collection and improved regulations. Here’s how YOU can help today!
Trout Unlimited names inaugural “Conservation Towns” list
Five rural communities from across the country are staking their futures on conservation In America’s “Conservation Towns,” rural communities that survived the past century’s boom-and-bust cycles are building new blueprints for economic success by tapping into their most important assets: the rivers and streams, public lands and wild landscapes that have always sustained them. At Trout…