title=”application/pdf” />170202_TU Senate Letter re StreamProtectionRule CRA.pdf February 2, 2017 Re: Trout Unlimited (TU) opposes the CRA Resolution against the Stream Protection Rule Dear Senators: On behalf of Trout Unlimited and our more than 150,000 members across the country, we urge you to vote NO on passage of House approved CRA resolution (H.J. Res. 38)…
January 31, 2017 Re: Trout Unlimited (TU) opposes the CRA Resolution against the Stream Protection Rule On Wednesday the House is expected to take up the CRA resolution (H.J. Res. 107) to terminate the Stream Protection Rule (RIN: 1029-AC63). The resolution is an ill-conceived tool for jettisoning a useful rule that will protect mountain headwater…
When Trout Unlimited works in a community to care for and restore watersheds, it is crucial to both sustain and continue to grow the work that has been done. To sustain our work, we must engage local communities, especially the youth, to help them understand what we have done, and why. To that end, watershed-based…
While protecting, reconnecting and restoring America’s trout waters is vital, without working to inspire the next generation of conservation-minded anglers, we’d be doing incomplete work. That’s why Trout Unlimited offers its Trout in the Classroom program to thousands of schools all over America. That’s why we hold several youth camps every year, and why we…
Looming threat of copper mine increasing interest CONTACT: Colin Cooney / Montana Field Coordinator, Trout Unlimited ccooney@tu.org / (406) 465-1023 (March 31, 2016) Helena, Mont. Anglers are clamoring to get a chance to float the storied Smith, Montanas only permitted river. This year the Smith River saw application numbers rise this year from 8,096 to…
Contact: Nick Gann, Rocky Mountain Communications Director, Trout Unlimited – nick.gann@tu.org Trout Unlimited media resources: https://tu.org/about/media JACKSON, WY — Trout Unlimited and partners recently broke ground on two fish passage and habitat restoration projects along the Buffalo Fork of the Snake River. Part of the federally designated National Wild and Scenic River System, the Buffalo…
Unfortunately, not every large mining company has the ethical backbone to truly be called a “steward” of the resources they pull from the earth, especially when it comes to what’s left over when they’re done. To wit, the West is pocked by abandoned mines, SuperFund sites and permanent scars that, even many decades after mining…
This may come as a shock to a lot of anglers out there, but the state with the most miles of trout water isn’t Montana or Colorado. It’s not Idaho or Wyoming or California. It’s Pennsylvania. And in Pennsylvania, folks are serious about their trout water, so much so that state Fish and Boat Commission…
To everyone who drew a permit to float Montana’s Smith let us be the first to say: Congratulations, you lucky son-of-a-gun. Not only are you about to embark on one of the country’s most amazing floats, you have also earned the distinction of making nearly 10,000 hopeful applicants from across the country jealous of your…
By Jake Lemon Trout Unlimited is seeking volunteers to help with a program to monitor stream temperatures in the headwaters of the Shenandoah River. TU recently received a $10,000 grant from Virginia Environmental Endowments to engage citizen scientists in the study, which will be conducted in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey. This study will…
April 3, 2024 Contacts: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that nearly 225,000 acres of public land in the Thompson Divide has been withdrawn from all forms of mineral entry, appropriation, and disposal for the next twenty years. “The Thompson Divide is home…
Contact: Tim Bristol, 907-321-3291, tbristol@tu.org Tim Troll, 907-276-3133, ext. 120, ttroll@tnc.orgPaula Dobbyn, 907-230-1513, pdobbyn@tu.org Trout Unlimited and Partners Call for Highest Protections Available for the Koktuli River State Should Grant Status as Outstanding National Resource Water ANCHORAGE, Alaska, February 18, 2010 — Trout Unlimited and a group of partner organizations today nominated the Koktuli River…
Wild salmon pour into the rivers of Bristol Bay right now as they have for centuries, reminding us, once again, how truly incredible this place, its salmon and its way of life are. Meanwhile, TU’s Save Bristol Bay campaign is gearing up for critical milestones in the coming month — bringing the months and years…
Partners applaud decision allowing $30M river reconnection project to proceed FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 9, 2022 Contacts: Mely Whiting, Colorado Water Project Legal Counsel, 720-470-4758 Jeff Stahla, Public Information Officer, Northern Water, 970-622-2331 Ed Moyer, County Manager, Grand County, 970-531-7799 John Andrews, P.E., State Conservation Engineer, NRCS, 720-544-2834 DENVER, Colo.—The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)…
PG&E’s decommissioning plan for the Potter Valley Project on California’s Eel River would remove all in-river facilities and make it the longest free-flowing river in the state
It looks like an out-of-place slip-and-slide placed into a meadow alongside a tributary of Rock Creek. It is, in fact, a fish screen. Like so many western trout streams, Rock Creek and its tributaries are important sources of irrigation for farmers and ranchers. In the past, many irrigators would dam a creek, and divert its…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Contacts: Strengthening the Snake: Collaborative Snake River Ranch Project Aims to Enhance Native Trout Habitat and Bank Stability Teton County, October 25, 2023 – The Snake River, a vital lifeline coursing through the heart of Teton County, is facing dynamic challenges that demand innovative solutions. The river’s mainstem faces fluctuating flows…
This week, TU President and CEO Chris Wood joined three other panelists and helped lead a discussion on the perils presented by the proposed Pebble Mine to the salmon and trout fisheries of southwest Alaska.
ConservAmerica, a “right-of-center” organization that advocates for market-based solutions to environmental challenges, hosted the discussion.
Trout Unlimited has undertaken several movement studies to determine when and where Bear River cutthroat trout move. These studies have helped us identify conservation needs such as removal of barriers blocking spawning runs, and to determine if fish successfully access upstream habitat after barriers are removed. Following trout movement in the Bear River Cutthroat trout…
New short film features local community members, agencies, and small businesses partnering together to restore stream connectivity through collaborative project. CONTACT Leslie Steen, NW Wyoming Program Director – Trout Unlimited, Leslie.steen@tu.org, 307-699-1022 Valerie Gohlke, Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Grand Teton National Park, valerie_gohlke@nps.gov, 307-739-3393 Mary Cernicek, Bridger-Teton National Forest Public Affairs Officer-…
