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Gifts That Give Back this Holiday Season

The special places we love to fish and play outside provide us more than we know. In return, we must assume an active role in ensuring they stick around. That is the heart of the relationship between anglers and the outdoors. We challenge anglers to find a way to give back and help the places…

Campfire, chili and conservation

Published in Uncategorized

The a few attendees — human and canine — supporting Ballot Measure 1 in front of Beach Lake. All photos by Brian Ohlen By Eric Booton. A year is frequently simplified into seasons, and in Southcentral Alaska we have witnessed the unique collision of three different seasons. While winter has been slow to start, fall…

Two 20-something women put their heads together to protect the Tongass

Published in Voices from the river, Community, Conservation, Fishing, TROUT Magazine, Women

If you’ve followed along with Trout Unlimited’s campaigns in Alaska over the past few months, you know that from Pebble Mine advancements to Roadless Rule rollbacks, incredible places like Bristol Bay and the Tongass National Forest are at great risk.   In response to the increased need for capacity on these TU campaigns, the Alaska program brought me and Kayla Roys on…

High-value salmon rivers receive new protections in Tongass National Forest Plan, amid ongoing threats in Congress

June 30, 2016 Contact: Austin Williams, Alaska Director of Law and Policy, Trout Unlimited awilliams@tu.org or 907-227-1590 Mark Kaelke, Southeast Alaska Project Director, Trout Unlimited mkaelke@tu.org, 907-321-4464 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE High-value salmon rivers receive new protections in Tongass National Forest Plan, amid ongoing threats in Congress Sportsmen and businesses applaud shifting priorities in countrys largest…

Maintaining a wild Susitna River system

Today the thousands of river miles continue to support healthy populations of wild Pacific salmon, rainbow trout, Arctic Grayling, Dolly Varden and more.  Just north of the state’s largest populations centers of Anchorage and Wasilla, the area draws attention of recreational users of all types – hunters, anglers, trappers, miners, off highway vehicle operators, pilots,…

Kraft named Orvis Conservationist of the Year

Published in Conservation, Featured

On April 16, Brian Kraft, owner of Alaska Sportsman’s Lodge in Bristol Bay, Alaska, was named Orvis’ Conservationist of the Year — fitting recognition for his 15-year-long effort to safeguard the Bristol Bay fishery.  Kraft has been a key leader in the fight against the proposed Pebble Mine. While running his sportfishing businesses in Alaska, he led the charge to…

Pebble Mine stopped by Trump Administration

For images and b-roll, click here   Contact:   Chris Wood, Trout Unlimited president and CEO, (571) 274-0601, cwood@tu.org Nelli Williams, Trout Unlimited Alaska director, (907) 230-7121, nwilliams@tu.org Nanci Morris Lyon, Bear Trail Lodge, (907) 469-0622  Brian Kraft, Alaska Sportsman’s Lode & Katmai Service Providers, (907) 276 -7605, bkraft@alaskasportsmanslodge.com Pebble mine stopped by Trump Administration U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denies permit for widely-opposed project. Sportsmen and women applaud…

Bringing “The Wild” to Washington, D.C.

Published in Conservation, TROUT Magazine, Uncategorized

Trout Unlimited Alaska, the National Capital Chapter of Trout Unlimited and Director Mark Titus are literally bring “The Wild” of Alaska to our nation’s capital. On Thursday, Sept. 19, Titus’ feature film showcasing Bristol Bay, Alaska, and the impacts of the proposed Pebble mine will be shown at the Carnegie Institute for Science (1530 P…

Yes for salmon

Published in Conservation

By Chris Wood Some bad ideas rise above others: New Coke, Diet Water, the Red Sox trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees. One of the worst ideas of all time? The proposal to build a mine in the headwaters of Bristol Bay, Alaska. Scientists during the during the Obama Administration said the mine was too…

Deadliest Catch Captain Sig Hansen and Crew Call Pebble Mine a Disaster for Alaska;

05/20/2009 Deadliest Catch Captain Sig Hansen and Crew Call Pebble Mine a Disaster for Alaska; May 20, 2009 Contact: Nelli Williams Program Director Trout Unlimited Alaska Program 907-770-1776 nwilliams@tu.org Deadliest Catch Captain Sig Hansen and Crew Call Pebble Mine a Disaster for Alaska; Celebrity Crab Fishermen ask Gov. Sarah Palin to Halt Project (ANCHORAGE, May…

Forest Service poised to repeal roadless areas protections on the Tongass National Forest

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Contact: Austin Williams, Trout Unlimited, (907) 227-1590 or awilliams@tu.org  September 24, 2020  Forest Service poised to repeal roadless areas protections on the Tongass National Forest  JUNEAU, AK — A final environmental impact statement released today indicates the Forest Service plans to exempt the Tongass National Forest from the Roadless Rule despite overwhelming public comment in support of the rule and its long-standing protections for fish and wildlife.  If finalized, the rule would repeal conservation measures for…

Tongass transition out of old-growth logging stalled

Tongass transition out of old-growth logging stalled New report finds Forest Service continued focus on timber shortchanges Southeast Alaskas growth industries: fishing and tourism JUNEAU, Alaska — A new report finds the U.S. Forest Services four-year-old pledge to end old-growth logging and to support key economic sectors in Alaskas Tongass National Forest has stalled. Headwaters…

Trout Unlimited Sets the Record straight with Sealaska Corporation and Senator Murkowski

Contact:Tim Bristol, Trout Unlimited, (907) 321-3291Mark Kaelke, Trout Unlimited, (907) 321-4464 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited Sets the Record straight with Sealaska Corporation and Senator Murkowski TU Calls for Strong Leadership on Meaningful Conservation Measures Juneau, Alaska Today, Trout Unlimited, the nation’s oldest and largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization, announced that contrary to a misleading…