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Bipartisan abandoned mine cleanup bill passes Senate committee  

‘Good Samaritan Law’ would clear liability hurdles to third-party abandoned mine cleanups.  Contacts:    Arlington, VA. –  The Senate Energy & Public Works Committee today passed by unanimous consent bipartisan ‘Good Samaritan’ legislation that would help clean up chronic pollution leaking from abandoned hardrock mines. The legislation will now be considered by the full Senate, where…

Headwaters Board Members

Anne Hamilton Anne Hamilton is a graduate of Boston University. She serves on the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Academy of Music, and the International Tennis Hall of Fame boards. Anne is very active in the communities of Newport and Philadelphia and started the Newport Antiques Show in 2006. Her hobbies include fishing, tennis riding, traveling and helping dogs.…

Ashokan-Pepacton

Our mission is to bring together diverse interests to care for the health and conservation of rivers and streams in New York’s Ashokan-Pepacton Watershed Region. This region includes many waterways crucial to the New York City reservoir system.

The Facts about Atlantic Salmon: What's Wrong with the Maine Salmon Plan?

1/9/2000 The Facts about Atlantic Salmon: What’s Wrong with the Maine Salmon Plan? The Facts about Atlantic Salmon: What’s Wrong with the Maine Salmon Plan? Contact: 1/9/2000 — — Here’s what Governor King had to say about the Maine Salmon Plan a few weeks ago: “And the best hope for restoring and protecting this habitat…

TU opposes bill allowing deadly sediment flows like one on the Shoshone River in 2016

Contacts: Tom Reed, President East Yellowstone Chapter of Trout Unlimited, 717-215-0241, TomReed1458@gmail.com Brett Prettyman, Intermountain Communications Director, Trout Unlimited, 801-209-5320, bprettyman@tu.org For Immediate Release Jan. 31, 2017 CHEYENNE, Wyo. Instead of working to prevent another massive 20-mile fish kill like one last fall on the Shoshone River, a Wyoming legislator has proposed a law requiring…

States and feds agree to work together to restore and enhance the Driftless Area

4/19/2006 States and feds agree to work together to restore and enhance the Driftless Area EMBARGOED UNTIL 10:00 a.m., April 19, 2006 Contact: Duke Welter, 715-579-7538 or Kathleen Campbell, 571-274-0597 States and Feds Agree to Work Together to Restore and Enhance the Driftless Area Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois join with the U.S. Department of…

TU hosting stream monitoring training in West Virginia

SOTU shalegas monitor.JPG For Immediate Release CONTACT: Kathleen Tyner, 304-637-7201, ktyner@wvrivers.org Jake Lemon, 814-779-3965, jlemon@tu.org What: Volunteer Stream Monitoring Program Training When: March 14, 10:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m. Where: West Virginia Wood Technology Center, Elkins, W. Va. Volunteer Stream Monitoring Program to Hold Free Training in Elkins MORGANTOWN, W. Va. Responding to increased shale gas…

Volunteer Stream Monitoring Program to Hold Free Training in Slatyfork, W. Va.

SOTU shalegas monitor.JPG FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kathleen Tyner, 304-637-7201, ktyner@wvrivers.org Jake Lemon, 814-779-3965, jlemon@tu.org What: Volunteer Stream Monitoring Program Training When: April 11, 10:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m. Where: Linwood Community Library, Slatyfork, W. Va. Charleston, W. Va. Responding to increased shale gas development and concerns over potential impacts on water quality, Trout Unlimiteds West…

Keystone Fund helps Pennsylvania’s famous Brodhead Creek

Published in From the field

Trout Unlimited has partnered with the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership on a series of videos highlighting a few of the projects powered by this critical source of conservation funding. For more information on the Keystone Fund, you can visit: https://keystonefund.org.

Dams and DIDSON: restoring California’s Eel River

Published in Conservation

The salmon and steelhead fisheries of California’s Eel River were once bountiful — and could be again. California’s Eel River—the state’s third largest watershed—is legendary among anglers for its wild steelhead and salmon fisheries. Bu t like so many coastal watersheds north of San Francisco, the Eel has been hard hit over the past century…

Trout Unlimited Issues First-Ever Coldwater Land Conservancy Fund grants

Contact:Erin Mooney, Trout Unlimited, (215) 557-2845, emooney@tu.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited Issues First-Ever Coldwater Grants awarded by conservation group support land protection projects throughout Chesapeake Bay watershed. WASHINGTON, D.C. Trout Unlimited issued its first-ever Coldwater Land Conservancy Fund grants to land trusts seeking to acquire land and conservation easements that protect native trout habitat…

Didymo in the Delaware: Trout Unlimited Issues Caution to Anglers

Contact:Erin Mooney, (215) 557-2845 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Didymo in the Delaware: Trout Unlimited Issues Caution to Anglers Anglers should practice clean angling practices to help prevent spread of rock snot. BUSHKILL, Pa. With today’s National Park Service announcement that didymo, or “rock snot,” has recently been discovered in the Upper Delaware River, a popular area…