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Buy Your F3T Tickets & Benefit Local TU Chapters
Tune in to the awesome 2021 Fly Fishing Film Tour (F3T) virtual event and you can also support the local TU chapter restoring the rivers you love to fish! When you buy your F3T ticket through one of the links below, the F3T will donate $2 directly to that local chapter, helping them do more…
Everything you wanted to know: bonneville cutthroat trout
Bonneville cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii utah) Species summary and status: The State Fish of Utah, the Bonneville cutthroat was historically found in the Bonneville Basin, including suitable habitat within Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Nevada. Although scientists believed pure strains of Bonneville cutthroat were extinct, a few isolated populations were discovered in Utah in the 1970s and…
How to pack for a trip to Bristol Bay
The flights are booked, the lodging is arranged. You’re going to Bristol Bay. Dang, I’m jealous.
U.S. Supreme Court weakens the Clean Water Act
New ruling sharply restricts federal protections for wetlands, adds confusion to “Waters of the U.S.” protections Contacts: ARLINGTON, Va.—The U.S. Supreme Court today issued a ruling sharply curtailing Clean Water Act protections for wetlands that are critical to healthy and functioning watersheds. Ruling in Sackett v. EPA, the court limited Clean Water Act protection for…
Video spotlight: Refuge
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is in the news again, as the oil and gas industry—sensing more friendly political winds— takes another shot at the effort to sink oil wells into the permafrost north of the Brooks Range. A couple of summer ago, I topped the Brooks Range on the Dalton Highway and got my…
Trout Unlimited and Fly Fishers International formalize conservation partnership
For immediate release Feb. 1, 2021 Contacts: •Chris Wood, president and CEO, Trout Unlimited, cwood@tu.org •Patrick Berry, president and CEO, Fly Fishers International, pberry@flyfishersinternational.org •Mark Taylor, Trout Unlimited eastern communications director, mark.taylor@tu.org Arlington, VA — Trout Unlimited and Fly Fishers International have entered into a formal conservation partnership, consummating the collective conservation focus of each organization to greater substantive effect. The agreement…
Voices from the River: The voice in your head
By Chris Hunt The late August rain provided the symphony, a tinny drum beat on the camper’s roof and walls, while I sat at my “kitchen” table tying up a gawdy pink streamer. Parked beneath the bows of towering yellow cedar and Sitka spruce in a lonely Forest Servi ce campground on Prince of Wales…
The student becomes the master
The 2021 Bristol Bay Fly Fishing and Guide Academy. Photo by Rich Johnson. The Bristol Bay Fly Fishing and Guide Academy is one of Trout Unlimited’s pride-and-joy programs in Alaska. Together with the Bristol Bay Native Corp. and the Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust, and a slew of local lodge owners, retired fisheries biologists and…
Stranded in grizzly country
It pays to be prepared, even when you’re just out for a casual drive We’d walked well over a mile down the lonely Forest Service road, well out of the way from the Island Park bustle. The sun was retreating and the mosquitoes had discovered us. And we had a long way to go. Mostly,…
Faces of Restoration: Jessica Lockwood
Sitting atop the Colorado River Basin in southwest Wyoming, the Green River boasts incredible fisheries, red desert buttes, Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge and Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area.
The ultimate list for permit seekers
Our friends over at Down River Equipment have you covered. They’ve compiled a comprehensive list of western rivers with links to not only the permitting websites but also with an associated application success graph.
Trout Unlimited Awards 2004 Embrace-A-Stream Grants
3/3/2004 Trout Unlimited Awards 2004 Embrace-A-Stream Grants Trout Unlimited Awards 2004 Embrace-A-Stream Grants Contact: Rob Roberts Embrace-A-Stream Coordinator Trout Unlimited 703.284.9424 3/3/2004 — Washington — National Conservation organization Trout Unlimited (TU) this week announced its selections for 2004 Embrace-A-Stream grants. Embrace-A-Stream is the flagship grant program for funding Trout Unlimited grassroots fishery conservation efforts. This…
Scientists: Remove dams to recover Snake River salmon and steelhead
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2021 Contacts: Chris Wood, President and CEO, Trout Unlimited, chris.wood@tu.org Jack E. Williams, Emeritus Senior Scientist, Trout Unlimited, Jack.williams@tu.org Helen Neville, Chief Scientist, Trout Unlimited, helen.neville@tu.org ARLINGTON, Va.—In an open letter to the governors of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, published today, a group of scientists with several hundred years…
BLM moves to boost conservation and restoration on public lands
Newly proposed rule aims to improve management of public lands in the face of challenges Contacts: ARLINGTON, Va.—The Department of the Interior this week announced a proposal by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to help identify and prioritize public lands and waters in need of protection and restoration, encourage investment in public lands conservation,…
Bureau of Reclamation Funds Trout Unlimited Projects Across the West
Infrastructure funding for water quality and reclamation projects will also benefit trout and salmon Contact: Sara Porterfield, Western Water Policy Advisor, Trout Unlimited, sara.porterfield@tu.org Drew YoungeDyke, National Communications Director, Trout Unlimited, drew.youngedyke@tu.org ARLINGTON, Va.—The Department of the Interior this week announced over $51 million in watershed and river restoration projects through the Bureau…
The Penobscot is open!
By Steve Moyer River restoration proponents are celebrating the completion of the construction phase of the Penobscot River Restoration Project, one of the largest, most innovative river restoration projects in history. In an unprecedented collaboration, the Penobscot Indian Nation, seven conservation groups including Trout Unlimited, hydropower companies PPL Corporation and Black Bear Hydro, LLC, and…
Animas River catastrophe a call to action on mine pollution
Photo courtesy NBC News Aug. 7, 2015 Contact: Steve Kandell, skandell@tu.org, (970) 946-5801 Ty Churchwell, tchurchwell@tu.org, Jason Willis, jwillis@tu.org, (719) 221-0411 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited, stakeholders call for solution in wake of Animas River mine blowout (DURANGO)Trout Unlimited today called for urgent action to clean up the scourge of abandoned hardrock mines, in the…
Big court win for small streams
Federal judge reinstates Clean Water Act safeguards for headwater streams and wetlands Contacts: Chris Wood, president and CEO, Trout Unlimited chris.wood@tu.org, 571-274-0601 Steve Moyer, vice president for Government Affairs, Trout Unlimited, steve.moyer@tu.org ARLINGTON, Va.—In a decision that restores critical Clean Water Act protections for small headwater streams and wetlands across the country, a federal judge…
Revised ‘Waters of the United States’ rule weakens protections for wetlands and streams
Revised rule implements Supreme Court opinion sharply restricting federal protections for wetlands and small streams Contacts: ARLINGTON, Va.—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers today issued a revised Waters of the U.S. Rule sharply limiting Clean Water Act protections for wetlands and small streams that are critical to healthy and functioning…