NOAA announces $16.6 million for TU salmon and steelhead fish passage projects
TU projects in Alaska, Oregon and Washington Priority Waters recommended for a new round of federal infrastructure funding
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A year after Helene, TU’s impact continues to resonate
A year after Hurricane Helene’s devastation, Hawthorne is among those both looking back at the response and action in the aftermath of the storm while also looking ahead knowing that recovery is just beginning.
In New Mexico, beavers and people aren’t so different
By Abelino Fernandez Leger In fall of 2020, I worked with Trout Unlimited and Defenders of Wildlife and River Source — a small company specializing in watershed restoration, education and research in New Mexico — on a beaver habitat assessment survey in northern New Mexico. The project goal was to find rivers where beavers could be relocatedand where beavers could do the work…
Trout Unlimited names inaugural “Conservation Towns” list
Five rural communities from across the country are staking their futures on conservation In America’s “Conservation Towns,” rural communities that survived the past century’s boom-and-bust cycles are building new blueprints for economic success by tapping into their most important assets: the rivers and streams, public lands and wild landscapes that have always sustained them. At Trout…
Solving a math problem for Snake River Chinook
Two recent studies demonstrate how dam breach paired with increased spill in the mid-Columbia would allow many Snake River spring/summer Chinook populations to reach various management goals I am sitting on my parent’s porch on a Sunday afternoon in July when the neighbors stop by to say hi. “Oh! You are a fish biologist,” they…
A day of celebration for the Roan Plateau
Corey Fisher casts in the grottos of Parachute Creek atop the Roan Plateau in 2009. You haven’t lived dangerously until you’ve subjected a rental car to the JQS Road. OK, sure. That might be a bit of an overstatement. But the sketchy, rocky, always-washes-out-when-it-rains, track up the east side of Colorado’s Roan Plateau is easily…
WWHP20 Divi
Twenty years ago Twenty years ago, Trout Unlimited looked across the landscape of the West at water use and saw huge, complicated, unaddressed problems that were sucking the life out of our best trout rivers and streams. Twenty years ago, thousands of miles of trout and salmon habitat were fragmented by makeshift dams, obsolete irrigation…
Sawyer Paddles and Oars joins TU as corporate sponsor
Aug. 28, 2015 Contact: Zac Kauffman, Sawyer Paddles and Oars (541) 535-3606, zac@paddlesandoars.com Joel R. Johnson, Trout Unlimited, (703) 284-9413, jjohnson@tu.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sawyer Paddles and Oars joins TU as newest corporate sponsor WASHINGTON, D.C.Trout Unlimited and Sawyer Oars and Paddles announced a partnership today that will benefit TU members across the country by…
Vander Werff joins TU staff to lead project work in CT
TU’s Northeast Conservation program has welcomed a key role player to the team. Jon C. Vander Werff is TU’s new Connecticut project manager. Vander Werff will orchestrate the 2025 Norwalk River Cannondale Dam (below) removal project, partnering with regional staff leads Tracy Brown and Jesse Vadala to execute this major project and connect our mission…
Four public lands bills make it out of the House
Now, let’s get them passed in the Senate
TU and partners improve fish passage for spawning cutthroat on Bar BC Spring Creek
December 23, 2019 Contacts: Leslie Steen, Snake River Headwaters Project Manager, Trout Unlimited, 307-699-1022, lsteen@tu.org JACKSON, Wyoming –Trout Unlimited (TU) announced today that on-the-ground implementation for the Bar BC Spring Creek Fish Passage & Channel Restoration Project is currently underway. The project is a collaboration between agency partners and private landowners to improve fish migration into…
Legacy Roads and Trails Act gets a fresh face in Congress
U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier champions bill that grants more funding for national forest management By Steve Miller Recently, I was fortunate to have been included in a group invited to ‘take a hike’ with U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Washington) to discuss TU’s support for her proposed Legacy Roads and Trails Act. Rep. Schrier loves and…
Klootchy Creek Logging Road Decommission and Passage Project
Working with a private timber company, Trout Unlimited removed nine culverts which were barriers to passage for Necanicum River wild coho, steelhead, coastal cutthroat and lamprey. Starting at culvert highest in the watershed of the nine targeted for removal, TU removed fill and the culvert while recontouring stream banks to replicate pre-road conditions. From there…
Let the water do the work
Editor’s note: TU sent a handful of college students to the Pacific Northwest for this year’s TU Costa 5 Rivers Odyssey to study and fish in the Columbia River basin. On the road to Cougar Dam in Blue River, Ore., there is a dirt road in Willamette National Forest that leads you to a squiggly hand-drawn “Road…
Trout Unlimited Receives Leopold Restoration AwardLocal Chapter Recognized for Conservation Work on Onion River
10/25/2005 October 25, 2005 Contact: Larry Doebert, Stream Project Manager, 920-876-2346 Trout Unlimited Receives Leopold Restoration Award Local Chapter Recognized for Conservation Work on Onion River WASHINGTON In mid-October, the national conservation organization Trout Unlimited (TU) received a Leopold Restoration Award for its work on the Onion River in east-central Wisconsin. In conjunction with the…
Statement of Jeff Curtis, TU's Western Conservation Director, in response to the Clinton Administration's Snake River Plan
12/21/2000 Statement of Jeff Curtis, TU’s Western Conservation Director, in response to the Clinton Administration’s Snake River Plan Statement of Jeff Curtis, TU’s Western Conservation Director, in response to the Clinton Administration’s Snake River Plan Contact: 12/21/2000 — — “It has long been recognized by conservationists and the vast majority of the scientific community that…
Conservation funding powers TU California Water Project success – project profiles
TU’s California Water Project is dedicated to improving stream flows in vital waters for salmon, steelhead and trout across the Golden State. On the coast between Eureka and San Luis Obispo, the CAWP develops and implements innovative water storage solutions with agricultural and residential lan downers to help native coho salmon and steelhead runs rebound…
Howland Dam bypass flowing, improving fish passage Maine’s Penobscot system
Water began flowing through the Howland Dam bypass on Sept. 28 The massive, ambitious Penobscot River restoration effort reached another important milestone on Sept. 28, as the first trickles of the Piscataquis River were diverted into the new Howland Dam bypass. Initial testing of the system is continuing, with the ultimate goal to ensure the…
Montana State Agencies and TU Agree to Expand Flows on the Bitterroot River
7/8/2004 Montana State Agencies and TU Agree to Expand Flows on the Bitterroot River Montana State Agencies and TU Agree to Expand Flows on the Bitterroot River A permanent commitment of 10,000 acre feet of water for the river will help to protect native trout populations Contact: Stan Bradshaw Counsel, Montana Water Project Trout Unlimited…
Jackson Adopt-a-Trout Program Engages 200 Middle School Students in Science and Conservation
Tuesday, June 13th, 2017 JACKSON ADOPT-A-TROUT PROGRAM ENGAGES 200 MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION JACKSON, Wyoming – Trout Unlimited (TU), the Jackson Hole Trout Unlimited chapter (JHTU), and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) announced today the successful conclusion of the 2016-2017 school year Adopt-a-Trout Program with a field day at the…