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A year-end message to the TU community
As the year draws to a close, let’s celebrate a few of the victories that all of you—members, supporters, partners, donors, and our staff around the country—made possible
Conservation Areas
Conservation should be a true partnership between landowners, agencies, municipalities, and all stakeholders. We protect critical habitat, reconnect degraded waterways, and restore populations to coldwater fisheries. We use sound science to inform our priorities, using critical data on the health of these fisheries to guide our conservation efforts. Fisheries management Our ‘whole watershed’ vision of…
Frank Moore, angling and conservation legend, passes away
A life spent not just chasing steelhead but fighting to protect the water they called home.
Report: Ground Water Pumping Poses Serious Threat to the West's Fish and Wildlife Resources and Senior Surface Water Right Holders
3/15/2007 Report: Ground Water Pumping Poses Serious Threat to the West’s Fish and Wildlife Resources and Senior Surface Water Right Holders EMBARGOED UNTIL: March 15, 2007 10:00 A.M. (MST) Contact: Melinda Kassen (303) 440-2937 x100 David Stillwell (303) 440-2937 x105 CA — Brian Johnson (510) 528-4772 ID — Kim Goodman (208) 552-0891 x712 MT —…
Trout waters gain added protections in New Jersey
More than 600 miles of streams in New Jersey have gained additional protections On April 7, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) solidified a yearlong effort by Trout Unlimited and our partners to formally upgrade more than 600 miles of rivers and streams to Category One (C-1) protections, one of the strongest clean water protection standards offered in the Garden State. …
Colorado River Basin and Greater Southwest
STATE OF THE BASIN For far too long, the Colorado River has been overused and overworked. Despite this year’s epic winter, the system’s largest reservoirs are still less than a third full, while the Basin faces threats to its environmental, economic, and cultural values. With so much at stake for the future of the Colorado…
Coldwater conservationists getting it done in the Granite State
By Keith Curley I left New Hampshire 16 years ago to come work for TU in Arlington, Va., but often return home to visit family and reconnect with the rivers, lakes and streams where I learned to fish. On one recent trip I had the good fortune of joining TU’s New Hampshire State Council for…
TU congratulates DeFazio for common-sense mining reform bill
July 11, 2014 Contact: Steve Moyer (703) 284-9403 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited welcomes Rep. DeFazios mining reform legislation Bill provides mine cleanup funding and helps voluntary cleanups WASHINGTONTrout Unlimited welcomed a bill introduced by Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon to create a revenue stream for abandoned mine cleanups and provide much-needed liability relief for…
Sporting Businesses Rally Around Protections for the Dolores Canyons
Contacts: COLORADO – Today, the Sportsmen for the Dolores Coalition, led by Trout Unlimited and Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, has expanded its membership, as local businesses pledge their support for public land protections. The Sportsmen for the Dolores Coalition, launched earlier this year, is advocating for a national monument designation or other means of permanent…
Washington water woes in Seattle Times
Washington commonly institutes fishing restrictions to protect vulnerable fish populations, like they did for steelhead in Scotty Creek, but these restrictions, unfathomably, do not extend to a destructive form of recreational gold mining called suction dredge mining.
Clackamas River TU Steps Up for Their Home Waters
TU volunteers greatly expand their restoration work through new collaboration with state and federal partners Last summer, the Clackamas River TU chapter partnered with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) and the US Forest Service to have a powerful, twin-engine helicopter place nearly 400 huge logs into Berry and Cub Creeks, two important…
Broad coalition urges Northwest governors to action on salmon, steelhead
Editor’s note: The following was delivered today to Govs. Kate Brown (Ore.), Steve Bullock (Mont.), Jay Inslee (Wash.) and Brad Little (Idaho) from a coalition power companies, conservation groups, the transportation sector and community utility coops. Feb. 24, 2020 Dear Governors Brown, Bullock, Inslee and Little: The debate over the management and impacts of the…
Voices from the River: A freezer full of rats
By Shauna Stephenson Before Lolo there was Olly the redtail hawk. And before Olly, FedEx brought me a box of rats, frozen, labeled and neatly arranged in Ziplock baggies, ready to be stacked alongside the Otter Pops and frozen peas. “If you’re going to be a falconer, you’re going to have to be ok with…
Native Odyssey: The Deschutes National Forest is a fishy wonderland
Editor’s note: The TU Costa Five Rivers Program sent a handful of young anglers on fishing and discovery journey all across America in search of native trout. This installment focuses on Oregon’s Deschutes National Forest. Location: Deschutes National Forest The Deschutes National Forest stretches out across 1.6 million acres of Central Oregon. It provides a…
Trout Unlimited Receives Prestigious American Fisheries Society Award for Work in PA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Erin Mooney, National Press Secretary: (571) 331-7970emooney@tu.org Trout Unlimited Receives Prestigious American Fisheries Society AwardEastern Abandoned Mine Program receives distinction for work in Pennsylvania Arlington, Va. Trout Unlimited’s Eastern Abandoned Mine Program (EAMP) was recently honored with one of the American Fisheries Society’s (AFS) highest awards, the Presidents Fishery Conservation Award.…
Future bright for premier wild trout fishery in the East
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is helping TU and partners boost fisheries on the Upper Delaware.
30 Great Places: Lake Tahoe region
Region: WestActivities: FishingSpecies: Lahontan cutthroat, rainbow and brown trout Where: The crystalline jewel of the northern Sierra Nevadas, Lake Tahoe, is fed by 63 creeks, yet only one river flows out—the Truckee. Leaving the northwest corner of the lake at Tahoe City’s Fanny Bridge (so named for the posteriors of tourists gaping at the huge…
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…
‘Hunters and Anglers for CORE’ call for more access and habitat protections
Measuring 20 miles long with nearly 100 miles of shoreline, it’s difficult to ignore Blue Mesa Reservoir. Sitting on the western flank of Gunnison County, Colorado’s largest body of water is a pivotal cog of the Colorado River Storage Project and the centerpiece of the surrounding Curecanti National Recreation Area, a sport fishing and outdoor…