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Why support hatchery steelhead in the upper Willamette?

Published in Fishing, Conservation, Science

By Dean Finnerty Editor’s note: Steelhead management requires balancing of competing consumer demands, statutory requirements, science and politics. Hatchery steelhead weaken wild stocks, but help keep our fishing heritage alive. Where habitat conditions are favorable, we should manage for wild steelhead; where they aren’t, as in the upper Willamette between Dexter Dam and the Calapooia…

Trout Unlimited applauds passage of Senate Agriculture Committee's Farm Bill

Contact:Russ Schnitzer, Trout Unlimited, (307) 438-1365Steve Moyer, Trout Unlimited, (703) 284-9406 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited applauds passage of Senate Agriculture Committee’s Farm Bill WASHINGTON, D.C. Trout Unlimited commends the Senate Agriculture Committee for voting to reauthorize the Farm Bill and help keep trout and salmon resource conservation efforts in place across the nation. The…

WaterSMART: The smartest water program you’ve never heard about 

Published in Conservation
WaterSMART fishing on the green river

The WaterSMART program provides funding to irrigation infrastructure projects and other water-delivery, water conservation or watershed health projects that proactively mitigate conflicts over water scarcity, help ranchers and farmers and make our public lands and waters better able to withstand the impacts of extreme weather events and natural disasters.

Parkside Elementary, TU team up to protect Rum Creek in Mich.

Published in Uncategorized

By Jamie Vaughan Rockford – Parkside Elementary students are changing the way their school is impacting their neighboring trout stream. The past two years, Parkside fifth graders have been analyzing the health of Rum Creek, an important coldwater tributary to the Rogue River, and decided they wanted to improve the footprint of the school on…

TU volunteers monitoring spawning redds and dam sites in Massachusetts

Published in Uncategorized

Members of TU’s Deerfield Watershed chapter work on their redd survey on their home river. The past year has seen TU staff and volunteers in Massachusetts engaged in a variety of efforts in the field.  The Deerfield Watershed chapter had a big year in 2018, particularly with their efforts with a sapwning study in the Deerfield…

TU aids with outdoor learning in Michigan

Published in Community, Conservation, Science, Youth

Outdoor education shouldn’t be a privilege of only rural schools. At Trout Unlimited, we believe all students should have access to high quality outdoor learning and we’re putting this belief to practice in Grand Rapids Public Schools.   This spring, Trout Unlimited has partnered up with after-school programs in two Grand Rapids city schools, Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership…

Voices from the River: New water

Published in Voices from the river

By Chris Hunt Every move I made seemed amplified in the little jon boat—every time I set my fishing sling down on the aluminum deck or shifted my flip-flopped feet or repositioned a fly rod, it sounded as if I was ringing an off-key church bell. The little boat was new to me, as was…

Snake River Headwaters Home Rivers Initiative

In April 2016, Trout Unlimited – along with a diverse group of community, landowner, and agency partners – launched an ambitious new initiative to restore and protect the headwaters and fishery of the upper Snake River in Wyoming. The Snake River Headwaters Home Rivers Initiative will leverage the capacity of the active Jackson Hole TU…

TU Purgatoire River Anglers Chapter Receives $5,000 Grant to Restore Purgatoire River

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Erin Mooney, (703) 284-9408, TU National Press Secretary TU Purgatoire River Anglers Chapter Receives $5,000 Grant to Restore Purgatoire River Trinidad, Colo.– Trout Unlimited (TU), the nation’s oldest and largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization, today awarded a $5,000 Embrace-A-Stream grant to its Purgatoire River Anglers Chapter in Trinidad, Colorado. The chapter is…

Fishing in the Farm Bill

Published in Restoration

Farm Bill conservation programs actually fund a significant amount of coldwater conservation across the country, and Trout Unlimited leverages several Farm Bill programs to improve and restore coldwater streams for trout, salmon, and people.

TU and Forest Service Form Partnership for Clean Up of Abandoned Mines

8/18/2004 TU and Forest Service Form Partnership for Clean Up of Abandoned Mines TU and Forest Service Form Partnership for Clean Up of Abandoned Mines Contact: Tim Zink Manager, Media Relations Trout Unlimited 703.284.9427 8/18/2004 — Salt Lake City — The USDA Forest Service and Trout Unlimited announced today they have entered into a partnership…

C2 Cattle Ranch steps up to save salmon, steelhead in Oregon’s Salt Creek

Published in Uncategorized

Krumweide point-of-diversion, Salt Creek, Rogue River watershed, Oregon. Photo Brian Barr/RRWC By Chrysten Lambert Southern Oregon is an angler’s paradise. Here, we are blessed with multiple species of game fish—native redband trout, steelhead and salmon primary among them. As in many other parts of the West, many of these species—particularly those that require cold water…