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The PA Brook Trout Odyssey Team: Charlie Charlesworth (left to right), Hunter Klobucar, Chris Piccione, Matteo Moretti, Sara Mueller, Tyler Waltenbaugh. By Matteo Morretti Not very often does a college kid get told that they’ve been selected for an all-expenses paid, three-week long adventure. So, you know that when four passionate, engaged, and, frankly, pretty…
Healing a river takes time. It takes skill and knowledge. It takes funding and resources. It takes communication and partnership building.
By David Kinney TU volunteer leader Agust Gudmundsson came out for a public hearing this week to testify in support of New Jersey’s trout streams, as he has time and again over the years. This week, the cause was a bit closer to his heart than usual. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)…
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Leveraging federal dollars and partnership muscle to unblock legendary wild fisheries on the OP
By Morgan Stum Trout Unlimited is working with Frostburg State University’s AmeriCorps program to restore brook trout habitat in headwater streams in western Maryland. On Oct. 3, 2020, nine members of Frostburg State’s ECHOSTARS program joined conservation staff from TU’s Western Maryland Initiative to plant 100 potted trees alongside a small Savage River headwater. ECHOSTARS is an acronym for Empowering Communities, Helping Others, Service Through Action, Resources and Sustainability. The group is a university division of AmeriCorps where, through volunteerism in local…
With trout fishing on hold in many regions during the peak of summer, bluegills and other sunfish are a fun (and tasty) angling alternative. And, unlike with some fish species, taking a bunch of sunfish home to eat is actually good for the fishery.
EPA to repeal 2020 rule and move to reinstate Clean Water Act protections for small streams Contacts: Chris Wood, president and CEO, Trout Unlimited, chris.wood@tu.org Steve Moyer, vice president for government affairs, Trout Unlimited, steve.moyer@tu.org ARLINGTON, Va.—Trout Unlimited welcomes today’s announcement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that the “Waters of the United States” rule…
Here lies the promise of our plans to develop a shared agenda of priority waters.
For Mike Mihalas, a surprise encounter in that pond (located in suburban Connecticut in this case) was the springboard to a life focused on fish, rivers and wild places.
Brook trout will get a boost from newly funded projects in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Trout Unlimited was among several organizations to earn grant awards from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation through the organization’s Central Appalachia Habitat Stewardship Program. A $140,000 grant will be used toward a restoration and monitoring project in the Cross…
Brown trout limit brook trout access to warmer stream stretches. Photo USGS. A new U.S. Geological Survey study performed at an experimental stream laboratory in Kearneysville, WV, shows non-native brown trout can place a burden on native brook trout under the increased water temperatures climate change can cause. It is one of the first experimental…
By Keith Curley Brook trout are often looked at through the lens of decline, and with good reason – brook trout have been lost from many of their historical habitats. The Northeast, however, continues to be blessed with an abundance of brook trout habitat. According to TU’s Conservation Portfolio, Range-wide Assessment, and Focal Area assessment…
Native brook trout have gained improved access to 3 miles of quality coldwater habitat in Sullivan County, N.Y., thanks to a multi-organization project that removed an old dam that was blocking the stream. Trout Unlimited teamed up with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and local landowner, Bald Mountain Inc., on the project on Frog Hollow, a stream…
By Seth Moessinger On Sunday October 13, five neighboring chapters of Trout Unlimited joined forces to help restore important riparian habitat along Crabtree Creek within Western Maryland’s Savage River watershed. The watershed supports the largest population of native eastern brook trout in the state and is managed by the Maryland DNR as a zero-creel limit,…
The brilliant autumn colors along the riparian area at Brooks Memorial State Park provided the perfect backdrop for time in the stream. The East Prong of the Little Klickitat River flows over a mile right through this Washington State Park and travels 13 miles south through the town of Goldendale. It was a beautiful fall…
Recent electrofish sampling of Virginia’s Passage Creek, site of a native brook trout repatriation effort, found a mix of stream-bred young of the year trout and transplated adults. By Mark Taylor A trout stream with no trout? That doesn’t make sense, does it? A pair of projects in the East are showing what’s possible when…
When Trout Unlimited crews and contractors dive into a construction project, they move fast. Often, it takes just a week or two of construction to complete the work. Getting to construction can be a longer haul. It was more than a decade ago when Chad Kotke, a stream restoration specialist on TU’s Great Lakes team, learned…
Wheeler wants the fish back. The Nez Perce people want the fish back. So does the Yakima nation, the Nisqually, the Sauk-Suiattle, the Nooksack. All united to one cause—bring the Snake River salmon back for once and for all. Bring the dams down.