Roadless is more
Quick, name your favorite Inventoried roadless area. Do any come to mind?
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10 things you can do in Roadless Areas
Here are some things you might not know are possible in Roadless Areas…
Trout Unlimited protests Wyoming Range lease sale
3/20/2006 Trout Unlimited protests Wyoming Range lease sale March 20, 2006 Contact: Tom Reed, (406) 522-7291 ext. 104, treed@tu.org; Cathy Purves, (307) 332-6700, cpurves@tu.org Trout Unlimited protests Wyoming Range lease sale Natural gas development would impact critical native trout and big-game habitat and impact the local recreation economy JACKSONA natural gas lease sale planned next…
Small streams make a big difference
By Jack Williams We love our big iconic rivers: the Snake, the Rogue, the Umpqua, the Klamath, the Gunnison, the Madison, the Salmon, and the Henry’s Fork to name but a few. These waters invoke passion among anglers, river runners, and all those who appreciate the beauty of wild, clean rivers. But just like anything…
Voices from the River: Author Tom Johnson
Trout Unlimited member Tom Johnson released his second book, “Threaded Journeys,” last summer. The book is a series of essays about two of Johnson’s passions: fly fishing and bowhunting, with interweaving discussions on conservation, health and our national welfare. Johnson grew up in central Massachusetts with a father and four brothers who shared many similar…
Everything you wanted to know: bull trout
Bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) Species summary and status: The bull trout was once found throughout the Columbia River Basin, east to western Montana, south to northern Nevada, west to California and possibly as far north as southeastern Alaska. The main populations remaining in the lower 48 states are in Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, with…
Snake River Headwaters Home Rivers Initiative
In April 2016, Trout Unlimited – along with a diverse group of community, landowner, and agency partners – launched an ambitious new initiative to restore and protect the headwaters and fishery of the upper Snake River in Wyoming. The Snake River Headwaters Home Rivers Initiative will leverage the capacity of the active Jackson Hole TU…
Fly Fishing Film Tour features ‘The Return’
By Brett Prettyman Each year about this time fly fishers find inspiration to stock those boxes they had grand intentions of filling over the winter months. It is called the Fly Fishing Film Tour, also known as F3T. What started as a celebration of a beloved sport has grown into an annual event drawing anglers…
From Red Brook to Bristol Bay: scaling conservation
A few days ago, the people of Wareham, Massachusetts delivered a victory for conservation. They voted overwhelmingly against the wishes of their Town Administrator, and four of their five selectmen, and denied a 775-acre development in the headwaters of Red Brook
Places have stories, and stories have places
You will know you’ve found a special place when you name it
The True Cast – What inspired the creation of TU?
Prior to 1884, Michigan—which is still essentially a giant sponge resting in the middle of the Great Lakes—was an entirely different world, fish-wise, than it is today.
The greatest threat to wildlands and native trout in a generation
And you can do something about it
TU, sportsmen ask for protection of Wyoming?s backcountry hunting and fishing retreats
05/8/2006 TU, sportsmen ask for protection of Wyoming?s backcountry hunting and fishing retreats May 8, 2006 Contact: Tom Reed, treed@tu.org, (406) 599-1022 Chris Hunt, chunt@tu.org (208) 552-0891, ext. 714 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: TU, sportsmen ask for protection of Wyomings backcountry hunting and fishing retreats New report shows importance of roadless lands to fish and wildlife…
TU, Field and Stream announce 2011 Best Wild Places
Contact: Chris Hunt, Director of Communications – (208) 406-9106 Colin Kearns, Senior Editor, Field and Stream – (212) 779-5082 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TU, Field and Stream announce 2011 Best Wild Places Six locations chosen for sporting assets and need for long-term protection Washington, D.C. Trout Unlimited and Field and Stream magazine today announced the six…
Voices from the River: The plight of California salmon
By Sam Davidson I came across a video recently, on sockeye salmon migrating to the spawn in the Lake Iliamna area in Alaska. The productivity of this region for salmon is nothing short of amazing—and makes the proposed Pebble Mine, looming like the guillotine over the entire Bristol Bay ecosystem, that much more troubling. Watching…
The easiest mouse pattern you’ll ever tie
I asked my long-time fishing buddies what flies I should be tying for this sure-to-be-epic adventure in the Andes, and I got back a single-word reply from one of them: “Mice.”
An angler’s bucket list
Later in life, a new credo beckons: Get out, before you can’t.
Native Odyssey: The Deschutes National Forest is a fishy wonderland
Editor’s note: The TU Costa Five Rivers Program sent a handful of young anglers on fishing and discovery journey all across America in search of native trout. This installment focuses on Oregon’s Deschutes National Forest. Location: Deschutes National Forest The Deschutes National Forest stretches out across 1.6 million acres of Central Oregon. It provides a…
This force for native trout and salmon conservation is in Texas. (Yes, Texas.)
The Guadalupe River chapter of TU looks well beyond their state and their (engineered) river to drive important conservation changes for native trout around the nation.
Bridging differences on the Snake
Working to change minds and save wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest