Jeremy Brooks scholarship recipient reflects on great experience at TU
Working at Trout Unlimited for six months in 2025 was one of the most exciting and valuable experiences in my life.
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NFWF grants to bolster TU’s brook trout work in Appalachia
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…
TROUT Tip – beyond trout
Sure, trout are a blast to catch, but at times it’s thrilling to chase other fish species. This video walks through when is the best time to target pike and muskie. Hint, it’s now. See All Orvis Learning Center Fly Fishing Video Lessons And to add on, let’s learn more about where to find these fish. See All Orvis Learning Center Fly…
TU, partners aid brook trout with NY dam removal
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…
TU spearheads growing partnership for brook trout conservation in MD
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,…
Brook trout restoration projects taking hold in Virginia and Pennsylvania
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…
Voices from the River: Connecting with brook trout on PA odyssey
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…
Conservation Portfolio Analysis aids brook trout efforts in NE
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…
A National Network of Priority Waters
Our Priority Waters approach borrows heavily from the portfolio concept by ensuring that risk for trout and salmon is spread across a variety of habitats and populations.
Robinson Brook project reconnects trout habitat in New Hampshire
By Colin Lawson Trout Unlimited and partners recently completed a project bypassing an old earth dam on Robinson Brook in New Hampshire, expanding habitat for brook trout on the Ashuelot River tributary. TU’s project team designed a step, pool riffle configuration to allow full passage of all fish species in all flow conditions (above). The…
Voices from the River: Goodbye Gibbon River brook trout
By Chris Hunt I first fished the upper Gibbon River some 20 years ago. In its quiet, high reaches above Virginia Cascades, it is perhaps the prettiest stretch of meadow stream in all of Yellowstone. It snakes, cold and deep, through a picturesque mountain valley below a couple of high-country lakes that source it. Its…
Brook trout discovery yet more proof that headwaters matter
By Jeff Reardon I’m following a green state truck through Freeport, a coastal Maine town best known as the home of L.L. Bean, horrendous summer traffic and outlet malls, when the truck slams to a stop on a busy road. I know this isn’t the right spot, but I check my GPS anyway. No, it’s…
TU Report Outlines Threats to New England Brook Trout
11/17/2004 TU Report Outlines Threats to New England Brook Trout TU Report Outlines Threats to New England Brook Trout Numerous environmental problems cited as cause for population decline Contact: Tim Zink Manager, Media Relations Trout Unlimited 703.284.9427 11/17/2004 — Washington — The national conservation organization Trout Unlimited (TU) today released a report examining the combined…
Hiking the CDT: Learning to dislike roller coasters
“From the very first day of this section, we could see all the way to where we would be in three days. Across a wide, high desert valley we could see a pass that we would eventually cross over to stay on the divide. To our right and in front of us there was a mountain range that the CDT climbs up into twice.”
Buck Run Conservation Easement Protects Land And Brook Trout
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT INFORMATION: Jennifer Shuey, Executive Director Bill Hilshey, Conservation Easement Manager 2555 North Atherton Street State College, PA 16803 Phone: 814.237.0400 Fax: 814.237.4909jennifer@clearwaterconservancy.orgbill@clearwaterconservancy.org Buck Run Conservation Easement Protects Land And Brook Trout ClearWater Conservancy helps landowner keep 60 acres in its natural state State College, PA – A conservation easement finalized today…
Trout Unlimited’s “Colorado Gold” shines conservation spotlight on Gold Medal trout waters
Growing coalition unites in effort to protect, restore and expand state’s Gold Medal fisheries FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 23, 2021 Contact: Scott Willoughby, Trout Unlimited, 970-390-3676, Scott.willoughby@tu.org DENVER, CO – Trout Unlimited (TU) today announced the launch of “Colorado Gold,” a new conservation campaign designed to change the way the angling community thinks about Colorado’s Gold Medal…
Small waters, big fish
Leveraging federal dollars and partnership muscle to unblock legendary wild fisheries on the OP
Caring for and recovering priority waters
Here lies the promise of our plans to develop a shared agenda of priority waters.
Dam removal will make big impact in Massachusetts
Every TU project that improves watershed connectivity is important. One that opens 20-plus miles of coldwater habitat? Well, that’s next level. This July, crews will start work on a project to dismantle an obsolete dam on Broad Brook, a 22-mile tributary to the Hoosic River in Vermont and Massachusetts with headwaters in the Green Mountain National Forest. Built in 1889, the dam infrastructure was part of a system that served a water supply…
TU volunteers support stream protections in NJ
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)…