We bring people together to protect and restore rivers, sustain and recover trout and salmon, and in the process, make communities healthier.
We bring people together to protect and restore rivers, sustain and recover trout and salmon, and in the process, make communities healthier.
I was in my 20s and working for the Bureau of Land Management when the second longest shutdown of the federal government occurred. It lasted three weeks and was punctuated by “a storm like no other,” so I spent much of the three weeks shoveling neighbors’ sidewalks and helping push out snowbound cars. When the…
The rugged country and streams in the Owyhee River watershed in eastern Oregon represent one of the best remaining opportunities for landscape-scale conservation in the West
WILLOWEMOC WATERSHED SURVEY – JUNE 2023 Trout Unlimited’s Northeast Coldwater Habitat team has designed and implemented an impressive catalog of strategic improvement projects across the state of New York, while actively gaining new information to prioritize future initiatives. Within watersheds of all sizes, we continue to find unique challenges that require intentional approaches for climate…
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TU partners with NOAA to prioritize high-impact restoration projects in anticipation of salmon returning
I didn’t fish the opener of the winter steelhead season this year. Apparently, I have a thing about symmetry as I didn’t fish the close, either. A combination of real-life factors kept me off the water on these dates. I found solace in a petition to the Steelhead Whisperer for on-the-water reports. Thus it was…
Early February 2014: annual steelhead kill, Pescadero Creek lagoon By Tim Frahm Consider the Pescadero Dilemma. Threatened steelhead die every year, in significant numbers, in the Pescadero Creek lagoon on the Central Coast of California. Everyone knows why and how to fix the problem. The angling community is ready and waiting to help. But for…
We recently caught up with Rich Thomas and Sharon Sweeney Fee, who just took over two important leadership positions on Trout Unlimited’s National Leadership Council (NLC).
Like the Bureau of Land Management and the Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is an agency within the Department of the Interior. However, FWS responsibilities extend beyond land management and include the management of fish and wildlife themselves, not just habitat. This includes many fish and wildlife management activities that fall under their purview, including enforcing wildlife-related laws, including the Endangered Species…
Contact: Chris Wood, (703) 284-9403 Brad Powell, (928) 300-5451 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sportsmen Applaud Passage of CLEAR Act in House of Representatives TU urges continuation of oil and gas reforms in U.S. Senate WASHINGTON, D.C.Declaring that it is time to balance the nation’s demand for domestic energy development with the need to maintain the health…
A blue-collar angler tangles with permit
Photo: USFWS/Joshua Winchell In this age of boundless partisanship, something remarkable happened this summer. A smart, forward-thinking piece of legislation addressing climate change was introduced that is sponsored by two Arizona congressmen from opposite ends of the political spectrum: Republican Paul Gosar, who rode the Tea Party wave into Congress in 2010, and Democrat Raul…
By Toner Mitchell The boy is back in school, the trees around his soccer field the same blazing gold as the cottonwoods alon g the Rio Grande and the flanks of the brown trout bucks I’m hoping to catch there. The aspens, now bare, were equally stunning a month ago when I hiked up in…
Jason Barr, born and raised in the shadow of Mt. Shasta at the tail end of the Cascade Range in northern California, has, you might say, an appetite for risk.
Jan. 15, 2014 Contact: Chris Wood, President and CEO, (703) 284-9403 Tim Bristol, Director of TU Alaska, (907) 321-3291 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EPA Report: Pebble Mine will Damage $1.5 Billion Bristol Bay Fishery in Spectacular Alaska Landscape Trout Unlimited and Sportsmen Across U.S. Call for Immediate Action ANCHORAGE, AlaskaThe Environmental Protection Agencys final Bristol Bay…
$3 million in grants will help TU continue restoration work in the Chesapeake Bay watershed
The Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, Wyoming. At first blush it may seem odd that hunting and fishing is allowed on wildlife refuges, let alone expanding these uses as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently proposed. After all, they are wildlife refuges, right? However, hunting and fishing on refuge lands goes back to earliest days of the refuge system…
It was the stuff of angling dreams yet, until a few short days prior, I wouldn’t have even confidently been able to identify a native interior redband in an underwater lineup. As I reached the highest point on the stream that I was comfortable climbing, my sandaled feet bloodied and blistered, I pondered what a shame that was.
Maine’s Cold Stream Forest is one of the hundreds of examples of public lands sites that have benefitted from the Land and Water Conservation Funk. (Jerry and Marcy Monkman photo) September is #publiclandsmonth By Corey Fisher What is the Land and Water Conservation Fund? The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) was established by Congress…
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…