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It’s bull trout time in Idaho

Published in Trout Talk, Featured, Fishing

Roger Phillips photo. By Roger Phillips They’re big, they’re hard-fighting, and they’re one of Idaho’s most overlooked trophy fishing opportunities, but many anglers are still confused about whether they can target bull trout for catch-and-release fishing. The short answer is yes.  When bull trout were listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act in…

Congress Advances Legislation to Clean Up Abandoned Coal Mines

Bipartisan Community Reclamation Partnerships Act passes in the House of Representatives Contacts Today, the House of Representatives passed the Community Reclamation Partnerships Act (H.R.167), legislation led by Congressman LaHood (R-IL) to facilitate partnerships between state agencies and non-liable third parties to clean up abandoned coal mines. Under federal law, non-profit organizations who had nothing to…

Caring for the Kenai

Published in Priority Waters

This cherished river is one of Trout Unlimited’s Priority Waters, and I’m here to tell you more about it and our work there. 

TU Fears Babbitt's Atlantic Salmon Listing Efforts Won't Survive the Politics of a New Administration

11/17/1999 TU Fears Babbitt’s Atlantic Salmon Listing Efforts Won’t Survive the Politics of a New Administration TU Fears Babbitt’s Atlantic Salmon Listing Efforts Won’t Survive the Politics of a New Administration Federal Register Outlines Potential Aquaculture Regulations Contact: 11/17/1999 — — While the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service formalized…

Conservation-Sporting Groups Ask President to Support Full Implementation of Roadless Initiative

3/13/2001 Conservation-Sporting Groups Ask President to Support Full Implementation of Roadless Initiative Conservation-Sporting Groups Ask President to Support Full Implementation of Roadless Initiative Contact: 3/13/2001 — — President’s review of roadless policy prevented implementation on Tuesday, March 13 ARLINGTON, VA – Two of the nation’s leading conservation and sporting organizations are calling on President Bush…

Remote sensing will revolutionize trout conservation

Published in Science, Conservation

Remote sensing is being used to measure improvement in Lahontan cutthroat trout habitat in Nevada. By Dan Dauwalter, Kurt Fesenmyer and Helen Neville Have you ever assisted your local DNR biologist with a painstaking habitat survey on your favorite trout stream where you tediously measured the stream channel, substrates, wood, undercut banks, and so on?…

New hope for coho in San Geronimo Creek

Published in Conservation, TROUT Magazine

San Geronimo Creek, which provides important spawning and rearing habitat for endangered coho salmon in Marin County, Calif., flows parallel to the road in the center of this photo on the far side of the former golf course, up against the forested hillside. Imperiled coho salmon benefit from major land acquisition and open space conservation…

A Step Forward For The Ailing Delaware River, Fishery Still At Risk From Drought

A Step Forward For The Ailing Delaware River, Fishery Still At Risk From Drought A Step Forward For The Ailing Delaware River, Fishery Still At Risk From Drought Trout Unlimited applauds DRBC action, calls for scientific review of flows for Upper Delaware tailwaters Contact: Nat Gillespie Catskills Coordinator TU (607) 498-5960 4/5/2002 — Hancock, N.Y…

Historic Water Lease Benefitting Madison River Fishery Announced

8/21/2001 Historic Water Lease Benefitting Madison River Fishery Announced Historic Water Lease Benefitting Madison River Fishery Announced Return of water to Madisons tributaries will protect trout spawning and rearing habitat Contact: 8/21/2001 — — Tuesday, August 21, 2001 Bozeman, MT A long-term water lease that will return water to three tributaries of the Madison River

Of chukar and steelhead in the Snake River country

Published in steelhead, Conservation, Fishing, Travel
Hunters hike steep mountain slopes in search of chukar.

By Michael Gibson Nothing clears the mind like a good chukar hike. So, when the boss called for a work/chukar retreat in lower Snake River Country, I got excited. Late-season chukar in some of the best, and most rugged, chukar country the planet has to offer. About now, you are probably wondering, what’s this got to do with fish?    We’ll get…

Riding the Skunk Train

Published in Conservation, Barriers, Featured

On the Mendocino Coast in California, an historic railway line is at the heart of a suite of restoration projects completed this year that will help imperiled fish species in one of the most important river systems on California’s North Coast for Coho Salmon and steelhead.

TU's Moyer Elected to Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame

Feb. 11, 2014 Contact: Chris Wood, President and CEO, (703) 284-9403 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: TUs Moyer Elected to Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame Working on Capitol Hill, Moyer has Helped Protect and Restore Trout and Salmon for More than Two Decades WASHINGTON, D.C.Steve Moyer, Trout Unlimiteds vice president for government affairs, was elected to the…

TU supports bill establishing mine cleanup fund

Nov. 5, 2015 Contact: Ty Churchwell, tchurchwell@tu.org, (970) 903-3010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: TU backs bill to establish fund for mine cleanups Calls legislation a ‘key piece’ of mine runoff solution DURANGO, Colo.Trout Unlimited praised a bill introduced today by Colorado and New Mexico lawmakers that would reform the 1872 Mining Law to require the collection…