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Making small talk

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One of my co-workers always likes to start a conversation talking about the weather. Usually it happens in the dead of winter. He lives in Arizona. I live in Montana. “How’s the winter?” he will ask. “Oh. Cold. Minus 20 yesterday. The same today.” He’ll laugh and I will huddle closer to the fire, waiting…

TU on Gila Trout: Downlisting Not Warranted

5/13/2005 NEWS ** 1 page ** May 12, 2005 For Immediate Release Attention: Assignment/Environment/Outdoor Editor Contact: Bill Schudlich, New Mexico Council Chair, 505-470-4878 Carl Lee, Arizona Council Chair, 602-995-0551 Kira Finkler, Legislative Counsel, 703-284-9408 TU on Gila Trout: Downlisting Not Warranted Angler-conservationists feel that rare native trout still require existing federal protections: “Now is not…

Video spotlight: Airstreamer

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Here’s a good one from the Catch Magazine vault—Todd Moen dusted it off recently for us all to enjoy. It depicts my favorite kind of fly fishing—waking up somewhere new in the confines of the camper and taking the fly rod down to the creek to see what’s hitting. Video of Bass, Carp & Trout…

What do we have to lose?

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Native fish like the Gila trout pictured here can use support in political circles as much as in their rivers. Greg McReynolds/Trout Unlimited By Randy Scholfield Why don’t people care more about conservation and trout? And what can we do to change it? That was the pressing topic that kept coming up recently at the…

STREAM Girls volunteers get their feet wet

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By Tara Granke Trout Unlimited is ready to shatter stereotypes and break boundaries. In early September, TU’s Headwaters Youth Program partnered with the Girl Scouts of Western Washington to hold the first-ever Train-the-Trainer for an outdoor STEM education experience designed for middle-school aged Scouts called STREAM Girls. At this training, TU’s Youth Education and Diversity/Women’s…

Anglers, hunters support bipartisan House renewable energy bill

June 5, 2015 Contact: Brian Zupancic, government affairs manager, (703) 284-9427 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Anglers, hunters support bipartisan House renewable energy bill WASHINGTON, D.C.A new bipartisan renewable energy bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives has brdfoad support within the sporting community because it includes royalty provisions for public lands renewable energy development that…

Protect Your Canyon

Mining companies want to look for uranium near the Grand Canyon: But hunters and anglers think the risks outweigh the benefits. After billions of dollars already required for cleanup of radioactive pollution from past uranium mines, now is not the time to put our water and land resources at risk. The risk Uranium mining around…

State of the Trout: Native fish in the Southwest in perilous state

June 23, 2015 Contacts: Jack Williams, Trout Unlimited senior scientist, jwilliams@tu.org, (541) 261-3960 Chris Hunt, Trout Unlimited national communications director, chunt@tu.org, (208) 406-9106 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Trout Unlimited report highlights challenges facing native trout in the U.S. Climate change, non-native species among biggest threats to native trout in the Southwest WASHINGTON, D.C.North Americas already…

Report Threatens Trout Unlimited’s Work to Protect the Grand Canyon from Uranium Mining

WASHINGTON D.C. (April 27, 2020) – The U.S. Department of Energy recently released the Nuclear Fuels Working Group’s (NFWG) report on its strategy to revive the industry and expand uranium mining, including streamlining “regulatory reform and land access for uranium extraction”. Hunters and anglers have questioned the necessity of the report and its definition of uranium as a “critical mineral” while continuing to advocate for the long-term protection of the lands and waters around the Grand Canyon through Trout Unlimited’s Protect Your Canyon campaign.   Trout Unlimited (TU) has spent…

Keep the Grand Canyon grand

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Bonds of brothers

As age takes its toll, the memories become stronger By Drew Irby I was browsing through a collection of scanned photos the other day and came across a vintage pic from the family archives. I had been randomly thinking about what happened to certain friends from my college days in northern Arizona. Seeing this shot…

Native Trout Odyssey Team

Published in Travel, TU Costa 5 Rivers

Native Trout Odyssey team to make final stop in Washington D.C. Five college students; 10 weeks; 10 states; 18 native trout species. The Native Odyssey crew (left to right): Brett Winchel, Matt Crockett, Jacob Lacy, Heather Harkavy, Austin Burroughs. This Summer, TU, in partnership with U.S. Forest Service, Costa Sunglasses, Simms Fishing Products, and Fishpond,…

New Agriculture, Conservation Coalition Urges Passage of Farm Bill

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Agriculture, Conservation Coalition Urges Passage of Farm BillGroups call FB conservation programs critical to the health of West (Washington, D.C.) A new coalition of conservation and agriculture groups called on Congress to pass the Farm Bill this year to ensure full funding for conservation title programs, saying they are critical to…

Orvis Pro Insulated Hoody

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The Russians say that there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing. That’s why I don’t agree with my friends in Arizona who say that the heat of their summer is just the obverse of the cold of our Midwest winters. Nonsense. You can only legally take off so much clothing in…