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Central Sierra

Central Sierra Trout Unlimited’s mission is to conserve, protect, and restore the coldwater fisheries and their watersheds in Calaveras, Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne Counties. Through our efforts in conservation, policy, and education we strive to improve our local watersheds encompassing the Mokelumne, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Merced, San Joaquin, Kings, and Kern river

In Virginia, TU making a difference for native brook trout

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By Seth Coffman For many Virginians, the Eastern brook trout (above) is the iconic symbol of pristine streams and wild places. Brook trout go hand in hand with clean, cold water, and seeing one rise to your well-presented fly never gets old. That is just one of the many reasons TU has been working to…

TU lauds new public lands bill for NW California

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The northwest corner of California, between the Russian and Klamath Rivers, is home to some of the best remaining salmon and steelhead streams in the West. This region boasts some of the most famous steelhead fisheries in the world, including the Trinity, Mad, Mattole, and Eel River systems . Trout Unlimited’s North Coast Coho Project…

Students, volunteers celebrate Connecticut’s Salmon Creek

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In celebration of Earth Day, Sharon Central School students and local volunteers took part in a day-long planting project to help restore the banks of the Salmon Creek in Salisbury on Tuesday, April 24. At the annual Salmon Kill Watershed Festival organized by Trout Unlimited and the Housatonic Valley Association, students planted native trees and…

Students, volunteers celebrate Connecticut’s Salmon Creek

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In celebration of Earth Day, Sharon Central School students and local volunteers took part in a day-long planting project to help restore the banks of the Salmon Creek in Salisbury on Tuesday, April 24. At the annual Salmon Kill Watershed Festival organized by Trout Unlimited and the Housatonic Valley Association, students planted native trees and shrubs such as…

Pioneer Valley

Located in western Massachusetts covering the counties of Hampshire and Hamden. Local rivers and steams are in the lower Connecticut River Watershed, including the Westfield, Swift, and Ware Rivers.

Congress Fulfills Trout Unlimited?s Holiday Wish List

12/11/2006 Congress Fulfills Trout Unlimited?s Holiday Wish List Dec. 11, 2006 Contact: Kathleen Frangione, (703) 284-9427 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Congress Fulfills Trout Unlimiteds Holiday Wish List Last-Minute Votes Lead to Public Land Protections and Funding for Cleanup of Abandoned Mines ARLINGTON, Va. In the waning hours of the 109th Congress, budget negotiations helped deliver a…

Alaska Holiday High School fly tying material drive

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The egg sucking leech, a staple for every Alaskan’s fly box – Photo: Jenny Weis This holiday season give the gift of learning, opportunity and fly fishing to Alaska High School Students! For the past 8 years Tim Lussow, a biology teacher at Colony High School, has helped expose the world of fly fishing to…

Biden Administration calls for passage of Good Samaritan legislation; reforming mining laws 

Mine entrance with polluted water coming out of it

New recommendations include providing Good Samaritans with liability protections to clean up abandoned mines, modernizing mining laws, and improved permitting processes.  Contacts:     Arlington, VA. (September 12, 2023) – Today, the Biden Administration released a new report, Recommendations to Improve Mining on Public Lands, from the Interagency Working Group on Mining Reform with policies to support…

Trout Unlimited Announces Ted Fitzgerald as American Fork Canyon Project Director

3/22/2004 Trout Unlimited Announces Ted Fitzgerald as American Fork Canyon Project Director Trout Unlimited Announces Ted Fitzgerald as American Fork Canyon Project Director Contact: Tim Zink Manager, Media Relations Trout Unlimited 703.284.9427 3/22/2004 — Washington — National conservation organization Trout Unlimited (TU) today announced that veteran public servant Ted Fitzgerald will join its staff as…

Congress steps up to approve Delaware River Basin Conservation Act

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By Mark Taylor   In the early morning hours Saturday, Congress stepped up to protect one of America’s most historic watersheds.   The Delaware River Basin Conservation Act, first introduced in 2010 and long a priority for Trout Unlimited and our partners in the region, finally cleared both the House and Senate as a provision…

Clark Brook, Oliverian Brook and Eastman Brook, New Hampshire

Goals No matter how clean and cold the water is for brook trout, a bountiful population cannot occur without a significant amount of uninterrupted stream mileage to allow the fish to move throughout the length of stream. Streams like Clark Brook, Oliverian Brook and Eastman Brook in western central New Hampshire have habitat characteristics of…

Deming Creek restoration benefits Klamath bull trout, redband

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The new confluence of Deming Creek and the South Fork Sprague River. By Chrysten Lambert Trout Unlimited, in partnership with the US Fish and Wildlife Service Parnter’s Program completed a substantial habitat reconnection project on the South Fork Sprague River, the headwaters of the iconic Klamath River. The project involved restoring the Deming Creek tributary…

Russian River Receives Major National Grant to Benefit Endangered Coho Salmon

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Matthew Deitch, Center for Ecosystem Mngmt&Restoration, 510-420-4565 x106, deitch@cemar.org Brock Dolman, Occidental Arts&Ecology Center, 707-874-1557 x206, Brock@oaec.org Kara Heckert, Sotoyome Resource Conservation Dist., 707-569-1448 x104, KHeckert@sotoyomercd.org Lisa Hulette, Gold Ridge Resource Conservation Dist., 707-874-2907, lisa@goldridgercd.org Mary Ann King, Trout Unlimited, 510-649-9987, mking@tu.org Mariska Obedzinski, Univ. of CA Cooperative Extension, 707-565-2621, mobedzinski@ucdavis.edu…