A healthy stream thanks to roadless area forest treatments
Caples Creek Roadless Area provides a good example of the benefits of fuels treatment projects in Roadless Areas.
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Every Bit Counts
On a controversial river in a drying landscape, ranchers look to science, technology and the law to send just a little more water downstream.
Protect
There’s a direct connection between great habitat and great fishing. Our country is blessed with 640 million acres of public land that provide much of our best remaining fish and wildlife habitat, with good access for fishing and hunting. These lands are the birthright of every American—keeping them healthy is good for fish and game,…
With 40 Years Of Conservation Work Under Our Belt…Trout Unlimited Outlines Goals For New Millennium
12/22/1999 With 40 Years Of Conservation Work Under Our Belt…Trout Unlimited Outlines Goals For New Millennium With 40 Years Of Conservation Work Under Our Belt . . .Trout Unlimited Outlines Goals For New Millennium Contact: 12/22/1999 — — Over 100,000 volunteer members of Trout Unlimited (TU) are reflecting on 40 years of conservation commitment to…
Against all odds, these native trout survive
In the Rio San Antonio, TU is working to restore a vital and vulnerable watershed.
Trout Unlimited, public land users support new bill to end non-competitive oil and gas leasing
Legislation would promote responsible development and healthy fisheries on public land FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Corey Fisher, Public Lands Policy Director, Trout Unlimited, corey.fisher@tu.org, 406-546-2979 WASHINGTON, D.C.—Trout Unlimited today voiced support for legislation that would help modernize the federal oil and gas leasing system and facilitate responsible energy development on public land. The Competitive Onshore…
The Book Cliffs in Utah provide solace and critical habitat
Editor’s note: TROUT Magazine Online will publish frequent essays on “American Places,” lands and waters that make the nation unique. These essays will be crafted by Trout Unlimited staffers, contributing writers and volunteers. These places are near and dear to many and worthy of sharing in hopes of creating more advocates for the treasures so…
Federal omnibus funding bill includes money for issues critical to TU in the West
This week, Congress passed the omnibus spending bill, which will fund the federal government until next year. The legislation also includes several significant western water bills critical to Trout Unlimited’s work in the West. TU thanks the House and Senate leadership for the passage of these important water bills
Unwrapping genetic gifts that tell meaningful stories of trout
I finally realized it’s because every time I get new genetic results it’s like receiving a surprise gift.
Chris Wood’s full testimony “fire borrowing”
November 5, 2015 Testimony of Trout Unlimited to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry hearing on: Wildfire: Stakeholder Perspectives on Budgetary Impacts and Threats to Natural Resources on Federal, State and Private Lands. Chairman Roberts, Ranking Member Stabenow, and Committee Members: My name is Chris Wood. I am the President and CEO of…
Hoppers in paradise: Terrestrial season in the Driftless
Carefully I dropped the big Chubby Chernobyl fly into the water. A second later: “Bloop!”
TU lauds new Forest Service guidelines for groundwater
May 2, 2014 Contact: Laura Ziemer, (406) 522-7291 x 103, lziemer@tu.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited praises Forest Service for tackling groundwater rules to protect headwaters and fishing New groundwater policy a needed step to steward water resources and prized fisheriesin the face of climate change, drought (Washington, D.C.) Trout Unlimited today praised the Forest…
Alaskans: Be a voice for reserving water in rivers for fish
In a world where salmon and steelhead continue to dwindle and disappear, Alaska Governor Dunleavy has proposed changes to Alaska’s water management regulations that head us in the exact wrong direction.
Naxiyam Wana and the Uniter
Shannon Wheeler, Vice-Chairman of the Nez Perce Tribe envisions this not as past tense, but future. He, as with other leaders of tribal nations in the region, see the return of the Snake River system to a semblance of its former self as essential to the health of the entire Pacific Northwest and its residents. Wheeler wants…
Salmon Treaty must do more to protect wild salmon
02/11/2008 Salmon Treaty must do more to protect wild salmon FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Salmon Treaty must do more to protect wild salmonScientific review needed to ensure conservation objectives are met February 11, 2008 VANCOUVER A coalition of conservation groups is calling for a scientific review of the Pacific Salmon Treaty to ensure that it is…
Hunt Fish Owyhee
The Owyhee is an integral part of the sagebrush steppe landscape that supports more than 350 species of fish and wildlife, including California bighorn sheep, pronghorn, elk, mule deer, sage grouse, brown trout, and native interior redband trout. But it’s not immune to our ever-changing world. Tell President Biden and Congress to designate the Owyhee…
TU honors 2018 class of conservation award winners
Recognizing Trout Unlimited’s amazing chapters, volunteers and partners is one of the most important parts of our organization’s annual meeting. This year in Redding, California, two chapters, five volunteers and four partners were singled out for their contributions to Trout Unlimited efforts across the nation. TU’s national conservation awards have been a part of our…
Interactive Maps
Our suite of analytical, decision support, and communication tools provide a conduit for relaying our scientists’ work to our membership, partners, and the public. These tools include story maps, more focused web mapping applications, and decision support tools. TU scientists developed the Steelhead Atlas and Eastern Brook Trout Conservation Atlas to gather the best map…
Mine Drainage Cleanup in Pennsylvania: Perseverance pays off in the Potts Run watershed
By Rachel Kester As a college intern at the Clearfield County Conservation District, I first sampled Potts Run in the summer of 2002 as part of an assessment of Clearfield Creek, a tributary to the West Branch Susquehanna River in northcentral Pennsylvania. Potts Run sticks in my mind because after spending all summer sampling streams degraded…
Voices from the River: Browned out
By Mark Taylor The river was brown. Coffee-with-heavy-cream brown. It’s-been-raining-for-days brown. You-don’t-have-a-chance-in-hell brown. “Top off the raft and get the stuff down to the shore while I go drop off the truck,” I told my fishing partner for the day, Brett Prettyman. “I’ll probably be back before you’re done.” So, if conditions were more appropriate…