TU’s top videos of 2019
We produced or help fund a number of films and video in 2019. Here are our favorites:
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2026 Southeast Regional Rendezvous
TU Regional Rendezvous are exciting weekends filled with conservation, fly fishing, and camaraderie. This is your chance to connect with TU leaders, fishing enthusiasts, and conservationists while enjoying dynamic sessions, inspiring discussions, and hands-on activities. Full weekend ticket inclusions will be found on the ticket page. There is limited lodging available on site at the…
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2025 Regional Rendezvous Presentations
Thank you for joining us in 2025! Presentations from our 2025 Regional Rendezvous Virginia Trout Stream Barrier Survey – Tom Benzing, NLC Representative & Kat Hoenke, Landscape Ecologist Evolving Trout Unlimited Chapter Engagement Model– Beverly Smith, TU VP of Engagement Entomology for Educators – Maggie Heumann, TU Director of Engagement Partnerships Brook Trout Conservation in…
A step forward for America’s fish & wildlife
After the recovering America’s Wildlife Act resoundingly passes the House, it’s time for sportsmen and women to urge the Senate to support this important legislation.
Infrastructure dollars hit the ground
TU has a hand in newly funded work to reconnect native trout and salmon streams around the U.S.
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Making headway in headwaters: 2017 a big year for restoration in WV
TU’s work in West Virginia is improving conditions for trophy wild brook trout such as this 15-inch fish. By Mandy Nix Some have said that our history is in our trees, but for many others, there’s a blueprint of history in every ripple of water. It’s in the icy trickle from a limestone spring, and…
Fishing in the Farm Bill
Farm Bill conservation programs actually fund a significant amount of coldwater conservation across the country, and Trout Unlimited leverages several Farm Bill programs to improve and restore coldwater streams for trout, salmon, and people.
Another barrier down: Reconnects habitat on Maryland’s Wolf Den Run
A barrier on Wolf Den Run in the Potomac Highlands of Maryland––a TU Priority Waters area––was among the many AOP projects TU tackled in 2024.
What’s good for the forest is good for the trout
Volunteers plant trees along a small stream in the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay. Healthy riparian buffers are important for streams. By Steve Moyer Healthy trees, in addition to Trout Unlimited members and mayflies, has to be high on a trout’s best friends list. That is why TU is applauding Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) for…
Changes to the Clean Water Rule have big impacts on the ground
High in the headwaters of Back Creek in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia are several small streams that only run after it rains. Those “ephemeral” tributaries to Back Creek, a wild brook trout stream that also holds browns and rainbows, intersect with the proposed 600-mile route of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a project that…
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
Voices from the River: Potomac treasures
By Mark Taylor “Birds!” We were drifting near the Bloody Point Bar Light in the Chesapeake Bay near Kent Island when Joe McGurrin made the observation. “How did I miss those?” he wondered while firing up the outboard on his vintage Grady White cuddy cabin. A few minutes later we were easing into the fray,…