4/01/2005 NEWS RELEASE Embargoed until: 1:00 p.m. CST, April 1, 2005 For more information: “Duke” Welter 715-579-7538 Laura Hewitt 608-250-3534 Steve Kinsella 651-647-1545 TROUT UNLIMITED CALLS FOR RESTORATION OF THE MIDWEST’S DRIFTLESS AREA Minneapolis, MN – A wide scale restoration of the streams and rivers of the Midwest’s Driftless Area will bring enormous environmental and…
Westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi) Species Summary & Status: Officially designated as Montana’s state fish, the westslope cutthroat’s historical range included all of Montana west of the Continental Divide, as well as the upper Missouri River drainage. The average size of these fish is 6 to 16 inches, depending on habitat. It is often…
By Charlie Schneider Emerging science can meld with policy and restoration efforts to help reach our ultimate goal of improving steelhead runs. A previous post at Wild Steelheaders United highlighted the petition to list summer steelhead on the Eel River in Northern California, and discussed research by scientists at UC Davis that suggests premature migration…
Because of their propensity to flood, riverside communities in the Catskills have maintained a complicated co-existence with their rivers and streams.
Congratulations to Donegal TU Veterans Service Partnership program, VSP Coordinator Bill Nolan, and all the Donegal TU volunteers for putting together this great event with Rivers of Recovery. This is a great example of how the “P” word (partnership) in the VSP is supposed to work! Job well done! Donegal (PA) TU VSP Hosts Rivers…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 27, 2014 Contact: Russ Schnitzer: (970) 309-0285 (West) Jeff Hastings: (608) 606-4158 (Midwest) Gary Berti: (304) 704-2731 (East) Steve Moyer: (703) 284-9406 (National) Its a new and better day for fisheries conservation on the farm WASHINGTON, D.C.Trout Unlimited saluted USDA Secretary Vilsacks announcement in Michigan today that the Natural Resources Conservation…
Community science is a rapidly expanding field where millions of participants each year gather data on hundreds of topics ranging from the weather, to water quality, threatened and endangered species, and such far off topics as the shape of galaxies. Trout Unlimited members have been gathering data on water quality and fish populations since the…
For Immediate Release Contact: Anna Halligan, Trout Unlimited ahalligan@tu.org, (707) 734-0112 Conservation partnership restores salmon habitat along Skunk Train railroad Trout Unlimited-led effort replaced old culverts blocking fish passage along the Skunk Train’s famed Redwood Route between Willits and Fort Bragg. December 15, 2020—FORT BRAGG, Calif. Trout Unlimited’s North Coast Coho Project announced today the…
The new Ford Bronco not driving through a river. Ford Motor Co. promotional photo. Editor’s note: On Monday, TU’s Kirk Deeter scolded Ford Motor Co. for marketing the company’s revamped Bronco by showing it driving through a creek, a potentially harmful activity to trout, salmon and their habitat. Here’s the latest from Deeter. We’ve been…
Restoration Ripple Effects: Co-benefits to fish, wildlife, and communities. River restoration benefits more than fish. Healthy and restored river corridors have room to move, taking on complex and connected forms. Water can readily access the floodplain as water rises, slowing a river’s flow, providing diverse habitats to both aquatic and terrestrial species, and cleaning water…
TU’s tireless work to protect and restore the South Fork Snake River’s native Yellowstone Cutthroat
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Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from the new book, “Catching Yellowstone’s Wild Trout: A Fly-fishing History and Guide,” by Chris Hunt, Trout Unlimited’s national digital director. The book, endorsed by TU, is available for pre-order now, and hits shelves on June 17. Several of today’s iconic fisheries in Yellowstone National Park are only fisheries…
11/4/2005 November 4, 2005 Contact: Ted Fitzgerald, American Fork Home Rivers Initiative Coordinator, 801-465-9949, tfitzgerald@tu.org or Kira Finkler, TU Government Affairs Director, 703-284-9408, kfinkler@tu.org Congress Approves Funds for Restoration of American Fork Canyon Watershed Washington The United States Congress has approved $100,000 for the restoration of the American Fork Canyon Watershed. These funds were approved…
Sometimes, you can learn an awful lot more about a river, and specifically where fish will be holding in a river, by looking at it from above, rather than standing in it. Granted, that’s not always that easy when you are fishing in flat terrain. But I know plenty of anglers who have been driven…
Roaring Creek is a critical perennial tributary in the Lower Entiat River, Upper Columbia Sub-Basin, in Washington. Trout Unlimited aims to improve production of listed steelhead and bull trout in the Entiat basin, and the Roaring Creek Project has multiple objectives to further this goal. Roaring Creek is currently one of the few productive tributaries…
Those long, featureless gravel runs that can be found on a lot of western rivers–and freestone rivers throughout the country–might often be trout “dead zones,” but as Orvis’ Dave Jensen points out in the video below, during hatches, these stretches of water can be very productive. Otherwise nondescript habitat, these gravel shelves can be anywhere…
Our founders were anglers. By history and by nature, we are optimists. Founded in 1959 on the banks of the Au Sable River near Grayling, Mich., by a handful of anglers united by their love of wild trout and their growing disenchantment with the state’s practice of stocking its waters with cookie-cutter hatchery trout. Convinced…
Johnson Lake will be the subject a giant fish removal project to hopefully prevent the spread of whirling disease in Banff National Park. How seriously are Alberta fisheries biologists taking the threat of whirling disease in Banff National Park? Very. They’re removing fish from Johnson Lake in order to prevent the spread of the parasite…
1/28/1999 Conservationists Welcome Proposal For $100 Million Coastal Salmon Fund Conservationists Welcome Proposal For $100 Million Coastal Salmon Fund But New Money Won’t Buy Time For Columbia/Snake Salmon Contact: 1/28/1999 — — The nation’s largest trout and salmon conservation group today praised the Clinton Administration’s proposal to invest $100 million in restoration efforts for coastal…
