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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.

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

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Fishing Brodhead Creek in Pennsylvania

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…

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…

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…

Bristol Bay Ambassadors: Martin Kviteng

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Trout Unlimited’s Bristol Bay Ambassadors program highlights the people who help in the fight to save Bristol Bay from Pebble Mine. As we said at the launch, “For every person we highlight, we know there are hundreds more, doing their part because they care about Bristol Bay.” If you know someone who should be featured,…

A living legend and a fishing machine

Published in Conservation

By Chris Wood “Lefty said, ‘give it a try for a year. If it doesn’t work out, you can come back.’” That was in April 1973, and Paul Bruun, fishing guide, writer, and Wyoming raconteur, never looked back. He moved from Miami Beach to Jackson to write for the Jackson Hole Guide. Lefty Kreh’s counsel…

The Tongass National Forest should stay roadless

Published in Conservation, Featured

Fishing and tourism provide 26 percent of the jobs in Southeast Alaska. Logging? One percent. Chris Hunt photo. Few decisions have been as short-sighted as last year’s repeal of the Roadless Rule on Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, which helps explain why 96 percent of all public comment opposed the repeal.  When large-scale logging first…

TU lauds new Forest Service guidelines for groundwater

May 2, 2014 Contact: Laura Ziemer, (406) 522-7291 x 103, lziemer@tu.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited praises Forest Service for tackling groundwater rules to protect headwaters and fishing New groundwater policy a needed step to steward water resources and prized fisheriesin the face of climate change, drought (Washington, D.C.) Trout Unlimited today praised the Forest…