Search results for “Tongass Priority Water”

Senate energy bill reauthorizes LWCF

April 20, 2016 Contact: Steve Moyer, smoyer@tu.org Kristyn Brady, 617-501-6352, kbrady@trcp.org Senate passes bipartisan energy bill that reauthorizes LWCF Sportsmen have been fighting for years to move these conservation priorities across the finish line WASHINGTON, D.C. The Senate has just passed a comprehensive energy reform bill that includes key conservation provisions to benefit fish, wildlife,…

TU hails OWRD grants for projects in Crooked and Sprague Rivers

Crooked River, Oregon. Photo: Brian O’Keefe FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Chrysten Lambert, clambert@tu.org, (541) 973-4431 December 18, 2017 Trout Unlimited: OWRD grants for Crooked, Sprague River projects vital and multi-benefit $4.2 million awarded to high priority fish passage, streamflow restoration projects in key salmon, steelhead and native trout waters KLAMATH FALLS, OreTrout Unlimited hailed recent…

Voices from the River: Dollies save the day

Published in Voices from the river

By Eric Booton I’m not a mechanic. In fact I’m pretty much the exact opposite. So when the check engine light on our beloved camper van named Ivy popped on and the performance of the engine took a turn for the worse, I wasn’t thrilled. As the vehicle that gets me to the river, launches…

Advocacy Tools and Resources

Once your Advocacy Committee has discussed policy priorities with council leaders and TU staff, it is time to contemplate strategies to meet your goals. Each chapter may have a different overarching strategy based on decision making, existing relationships and the specific policy effort. This sample of actions may be helpful to review. For instance, in…

Mill Creek Dam Fish Passage Project

The Mill Creek Dam Fish Passage Project dramatically improves access for native coho salmon and steelhead to more than eleven miles of high quality spawning and rearing habitat in a key tributary to California’s Russian River. TU and a variety of partners completed construction on this project in October 2016. Adult coho salmons returns in the Russian…

Dozers for Coho

Published in Uncategorized

An ambitious project on Mill Creek, a key tributary to the Russian River, aims to re-open access to 11 miles of prime habitat for Coho salmon and steelhead. It seems counterintuitive to welcome the sight of large bulldozers hard at work in a salmon stream. But on occasion the presence of ‘dozers in a stream…

Trout Unlimited [OLD]

Fishing. Conservation. Community. We bring people together across the country to care for our rivers and help make our water cleaner and our communities healthier. Please join us. Priority Waters are rivers and streams across America where Trout Unlimited is focusing our energies to care for and recover wild and native trout and salmon watersheds.…

Colorado has a water plan; now let’s fully fund it.

Published in Conservation, Advocacy

Finalized in 2015, the Colorado Water Plan is backed by rural and urban water providers, agricultural producers, conservationists and recreationists, and those on both sides of the political aisle. It is described by its authors as “a road map to lead to a productive economy, vibrant and sustainable cities, productive agriculture, a strong environment and a robust recreation industry. It sets…

Fast Times in Government Affairs

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TU’s Government Affairs staff with the 2018 TU-Costa Five Rivers Odyssey team and program coordinator Andrew Loffredo, working the Halls of Congress recently. The last couple of weeks have been wild and wooly around Washington, D.C., as major packages of legislation worked their way through congressional conference committees prior to the government’s fiscal year coming…

Great American Outdoors Act signed in to law

Published in Featured

Because of you — all of you — we can hunt more, fish more and play more. We can build stronger communities. We can lay the groundwork for a better conservation legacy. We can start fixing the backlog of maintenance issues impairing our public lands. We can make rivers and streams will be cleaner. We can make habitat healthier. We can leave this world a little better than we found it

Bill introduced to fully fund Land and Water Conservation Fund and help address maintenance backlog

LWCF funds have benefitted every county in every state across the country  For immediate release  3-5-2020  Contact:  Shauna Stephenson, Trout Unlimited  sstephenson@tu.org, (307) 757-7861  (March 5, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, a bipartisan group of Senators announced legislation to fully and permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund and help tackle the multi-billion-dollar public lands maintenance backlog.   The group unveiled the legislation…

TU, CPW, Buckhorn Valley Metro announce plan to protect Abrams Creek trout

July 14, 2016 For Immediate Release Contact: Mely Whiting, mwhiting@tu.org, (720) 470-4758 Kendall Bakich, kendall.bakich@state.co.us, (970) 355-4771 Preserving rare cutthroat population a high priority for state conservation efforts (Eagle)Trout Unlimited, Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Buckhorn Valley Metropolitan District No. 1 (District) today announced plans for an ambitious restoration project on Abrams Creek to…

Trout Unlimited statement on bipartisan infrastructure agreement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 30, 2021Contact:            Steve Moyer, Vice President for Government Affairs, Trout Unlimited                             smoyer@tu.org; (571) 274-0593 Sweeping infrastructure legislation introduced, headed for consideration on Senate floor New bill includes many provisions that will help coldwater conservation, but omits critical provisions championed by Trout Unlimited, including failure to support Rep. Simpson’s Snake River salmon…

Water transactions

Fish need water. They need enough water, at the right time and the right temperature to thrive. But Trout Unlimited knows that people need water too, and that with increased frequency of drought across the western United States innovative solutions are needed to modernize how we use and share water to make sure there will…

Trout Unlimited Applauds Senator Sinema for Working to Protect the Grand Canyon

For immediate release:  12/19/19  Contact:  Nate Rees, Trout Unlimited Nathan.rees@tu.org (480) 236-2479  WASHINGTON D.C. (December 19, 2019) – Protecting the land and water values of the Grand Canyon from the impacts of uranium mining has been a top priority for Trout Unlimited and sportsmen in Arizona. Today Congress moved one step closer to permanent protection for this special…

Chapter Strategic Planning

The strategic planning process offers volunteer leaders an opportunity to step back and look at the chapter as a whole and develop as a group a concrete description of the impact the chapter intends to make over the next few years. It is a time to connect the dots between mission and programs, to specify…