The next half-century of hydropower
How hydropower relicensing clears a path for migratory trout and salmon
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A Wyoming storm turns into a restoration opportunity
“The root ball and 15 to 30 feet of attached trunk is key for securing the tree in the river and keeping it in place during high flows.”
Shrems West Michigan Chapter Receives Trout Unlimited's Highest Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Rick Hartman, Shrems W. Michigan TU616-835-5764 Shrems West Michigan Chapter Receives Trout Unlimited’s Highest Award Chapter recognized for conservation efforts near Grand Rapids. ARLINGTON, Va. Trout Unlimited (TU) has awarded its top chapter honor to the Shrems West Michigan Chapter, based in Grand Rapids, Mich. The chapter was presented with the…
Video spotlight: The Fix
About this time every year, anglers in Idaho start watching the numbers of steelhead topping Bonneville Dam on the Columbia. Every steelhead bound for the Gem State has to pass over Bonneville Dam and several more dams, including four on the Lower Snake, before finding their way into the Salmon and Clearwater rivers to spawn…
Big water, big fish, big fun at Tailwater Lodge
Pop quiz: OK, grab a map and point to Altmar, N.Y. That’s what I thought. I couldn’t do it either. But people who know fishing in upstate New York can do it in (forgive me) a New York minute. The Salmon River in Altmar is one of the greatest salmon and steelhead fishing destinations in…
Reflecting on the Yankee Fork project
The Yankee Fork historically supported robust populations of salmon, steelhead and trout, but mining – and the intensive timber harvest that accompanied it – reduced what once was a complex, meandering river into a virtual flume.
Conservation Funding: Energy & Water Trout Unlimited Letter to U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee for Energy and Water
170627_TU_FY18_EW_Approps_House_FNL.pdf June 27, 2017 RE: Bureau of Reclamation FY18 Budget Request. Dear Chairman Simpson, Ranking Member Kaptur, and Members of the Subcommittee, I am writing on behalf of Trout Unlimited (TU) and its 300,000 members and supporters to express our views on Fiscal Year 2018 appropriations for programs within your jurisdiction which are of great…
Alaska Kingfishers
Since 1993, Alaska Kingfishers has operated a remote Alaska Salmon Fishing camp on the banks of the Nushagak River in the heart of Bristol Bay, Alaska. The Nushagak River is home to the largest run of King Salmon in the world and it also gets a huge return of Alaska chum salmon and Alaska sockeye…
Resources
Along much of California’s coast, lack of streamflow – often caused by the diversion of water for human use – is a major impediment to recovery of salmon and steelhead. Trout Unlimited works with a diverse collection of partners on projects that improve dry season streamflow for the benefit of native coho and steelhead. Water…
National Park Service targets brown trout at Lees Ferry
by Jim Strogen The Colorado River below Lake Powell is a blue-ribbon rainbow trout fishery loved by anglers across the country. While this reach is among the prettiest places that I have fished, and one that I try to return to as often as possible, there are issues on the river that are important to…
Cycling to the source of the Eklutna
At the end of May, a crew of spirited friends and I coasted out of Eklutna Lake campground with trimmed packs, tents and miscellaneous items strapped to our bikes, bound for the head of the glacial valley…or at least its vicinity. It was a fresh adventure for all, and for me, the opportunity to witness the East and West Forks of the Eklutna River beyond Eklutna Lake and set eyes on the glacier, where the Eklutna River begins
Information on Salmon Genetics and Listing under the Endangered Species Act
4/14/2000 Information on Salmon Genetics and Listing under the Endangered Species Act Information on Salmon Genetics and Listing under the Endangered Species Act Contact: 4/14/2000 — — Contact: *Jeff Reardon, New England Conservation Coordinator, Trout Unlimited, (207)882-4791; *Leon Szeptycki, Eastern Conservation Director, Trout Unlimited, (804) 984-4919 Critics of the proposed listing of Atlantic salmon question…
Cutthroats, bull trout … and social distance on Idaho’s St. Joe
Named for the work of a Jesuit priest, this panhandle river is true holy water About a century ago, rumor has it that renowned author Zane Grey would pay his friends to get up before dawn and go stand in the prized steelhead runs of Oregon’s Rogue River. They wouldn’t fish, mind you, although they…
Conservationists, anglers and commercial fishermen united in support of Klamath dam removal
For Immediate Release April 6, 2016 Contact Steve Rothert, American Rivers, 530-277-0448 Curtis Knight, California Trout, 530-859-1872 Lowell Ashbaugh, International Federation of Fly Fishers, 530-277-6722 Glen Spain, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermens Associations and Institute for Fisheries Resources, 541-689-2000 Brian Johnson, Trout Unlimited, 415-385-0796 General inquiries: Nina Erlich-Williams, 541-230-1973 or 415-577-1153 CONSERVATIONISTS, ANGLERS AND COMMERCIAL…
Shoshone Agreement Does Not Protect Headwater Fisheries
09/03/2007 Shoshone Agreement Does Not Protect Headwater Fisheries FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information contact: Mely Whiting, (720) 470-4758 SHOSHONE AGREEMENT DOES NOT PROTECT HEADWATER FISHERIES Boulder, CO While an agreement announced yesterday by major operators on the Colorado River benefits irrigators, rafters and some populations of endangered fish, it falls short of protecting gold…
Inspired by Fishing: Chaco x Thomas Rhett sandals
A country music star who loves fly fishing with his family is partnering with Chaco to support TU’s mission.
Michigan students connect to the environment through farming
By Jamie Vaughan Trout Unlimited recently kicked off a new pilot program, Seasons on the Farm, in partnership with the Lower Grand River Organization of Watersheds, Plainsong Farm, and the Kent Conservation District in Michigan. Seasons on the Farm aims to provide practical, immersive farm-based environmental education for middle school students in the Rogue River…
Alpine Archery and Fly stands with TU on Lower Snake proposal
Their business exists to serve the local folks who love to hunt and fish here and the people who come from all over the world to experience the Grande Ronde country. They’re hunters and anglers themselves, and they’re concerned about the future of fish in their home water. Like John says, “Time has taught us that we can either have wild fish in the Grand Ronde or we can have dams on the Lower Snake. We can’t have both.”
Summer reading: ‘The Emerald Mile’
Our beloved Colorado River has been on my mind a lot recently. Low water, rising temperatures and new fishing restrictions has caused me to reflect on years past
Stealing rivers … and less to steal
By Noel Gollehon Two scientific studies published this month captured some pretty dramatic details of how climate change is affecting our rivers, lakes and streams. A recent article in Nature Geoscience described the first known case of river piracy due to climate change. In this case, the climate change pirate stole the flow of a…