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Noseeum Lodge
About us No See Um Lodge is a family-run operation that was established by Jack Holman in the early 70’s. Today his son, John, who is both a pilot and a guide, maintains No See Um’s well-earned reputation for pampering and pleasing its guests. John has been living, fishing, guiding and flying in Alaska for…
Taking On Acid Rain
9/15/19999 Taking On Acid Rain Taking On Acid Rain Contact: 9/15/1999 — — WHAT IS ACID RAIN? Scientists have determined that acid rain develops when pollution, mostly from coal-fired electric power plants, enters the atmosphere and returns to the ground in the form of acid rain. Specifically, nitrogen oxides and disulfur oxide have been identified…
Voices from the River: Citizen scientists work to protect their home waters
Each week, dozens of volunteers head afield in the East as part of Trout Unlimited’s citizen science efforts. In the mid-Atlantic region much of the effort has been focused on TU’s shale gas and pipeline monitoring efforts. Jake Lemon, who heads that program, recently reached out to three dedicated volunteers to find out what drew…
The Power of Native.
Like your first kiss, no one ever forgets their first native trout.
Reconnecting trout and people in West Virginia
Replacing an undersized culvert with this bridge not only reduced flooding risks on a small tributary to the Capacon River in West Virginia, it reconnected 4.5 miles of native brook trout habitat. (Photo: Abby McQueen, TU stream restoration specialist) By Brooke Andrew The Trout Unlimited field staff in West Virginia are firm believers in our…
Doc Fritchey TU 9th Annual Home Waters Event a Success!
Congratulations to Doc Fritchey TU #108 for serving our nation’s military family through its 9th Annual Home Waters event. 13 veterans who participated in the Home Waters event joined Trout Unlimited and DFTU through the free one-year membership for veterans! This is a wonderful example how TU chapters may use the Veterans Service Partnerhsip (VSP)…
Trout Unlimited, Forest Service launch $40 million initiative
A new chapter in a longstanding partnership to recover and reconnect trout waters on public lands.
Photo of the week – cutthroat
Snow is melting in the mountains, which has us dreaming about high country forays to catch native cutthroat trout.
TU Decries Lack of Compromise on Clean Air Legislation
03/11/2005 TU Decries Lack of Compromise on Clean Air Legislation New rules amount to minor progress, but are inferior to legislation WASHINGTON – The national conservation organization Trout Unlimited (TU) today expressed disappointment at the failure of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to pass a strong, bipartisan clean air bill. Earlier this week,…
A Fishery Lacking Fish
Brook trout habitat will expand once AMD cleanup takes place on Beech Creek in Pennsylvania
TU’s Maryland team meets with Congressional staffs to tout program’s successes
Started in 2018, Trout Unlimited’s Western Maryland Initiative has been making progress improving habitat for native brook trout and other species — work that also benefits the health of the Chesapeake Bay. Stable sources of funding are critical for the initiative’s success, which is why the program’s coordinator, Seth Moessinger recently joined other conservation organization representatives in Washington, D.C., to meet…
New map highlights 2023 infrastructure upgrades in Great Lakes priority waters
2023 was a good year for Great Lakes coldwater conservation, marked by an influx of federal funding for necessary infrastructure upgrades.
Action on climate change moving ahead in Washington
Steps to reduce climate warming emissions are urgently needed to avert the most devastating harms that climate change could wreak on trout and salmon habitat
Habitat Diversity
The Goose Creek basin in Idaho contains the western-most Yellowstone cutthroat populations in the Snake River drainage. TU has worked in the basin with the Bureau of Land Management and other partners to evaluate linkages between habitat diversity, coldwater fisheries, and a rare minnow and implement restoration activities to improve habitat conditions. Resources The Goose…
Big projects on tap in Driftless Area
Several major restoration projects are on tap for the coming field season in the Driftless Area, one of Trout Unlimited’s Priority Waters. Here are several of the biggest efforts on tap Nohr Chapter – Snow Bottom Stream Improvement Project – Wisconsin The Nohr Chapter was awarded a Department of Natural Resources Surface Water Grant to…
Protect Our Waters Coalition Responds to Nestles Decision to Leave McCloud
September 10, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Curtis Knight, California Trout 530-859-1872 Debra Anderson, McCloud Watershed Council 530-345-5603 Brian Johnson, Trout Unlimited 415-385-0796 Protect Our Waters Coalition Responds to Nestles Decision to Leave McCloud McCloud, CA. The Protect Our Waters Coalition today issued the response below to the announcement that Nestle has come to the…
Draining pond in Maine has good unintended results
By Jeff Reardon Since 2014, TU’s Merrymeeting Bay Chapter has been focused on brook trout in coastal streams, at least some of which migrate downstream to saltwater for part of their life. They’ve been working with me to document brook trout populations in previously un-surveyed streams by angling and electrofishing surveys; monitor water temperatures with long-term data loggers; and,…
New Report Looks at Impact of Climate Change on Trout and Salmon
12/05/2007 New Report Looks at Impact of Climate Change on Trout and Salmon December 5, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jack Williams, TU Senior Scientist (541) 261-3960Erin Mooney TU Press Secretary (703) 284-9408 New Report Looks at Impact of Climate Change on Trout and SalmonReport Analyzes Warming Climates Effect on Fish and Rivers Washington, D.C.…
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…