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Watch: Lifeblood

Published in Video spotlight

In the high deserts of Wyoming, habitat restoration work spans generations; providing kids an opportunity to get dirty and explore different career paths while building beaver dam analogs (BDA) on Muddy Creek. An important coldwater producer to the Colorado River Basin, Muddy Creek hosts native Colorado River cutthroat trout. Over-grazing, down cut banks, and drought…

TU’s Drew Peternell asks for Coloradans to speak up on Water Plan

Published in Conservation, Advocacy

Community Agriculture Alliance: Common ground on water As originally printed in the Steamboat Pilot & Today on November 3, 2021 Unless you’ve been avoiding the national news in recent months, you are well-aware of the ongoing drought gripping the Colorado River basin. In September, the United States Bureau of Reclamation declared a Stage 1 water…

Sportsmen, conservation groups applaud USDA-DOI move on water conservation in Colorado River Basin

For Immediate Release: Thursday, June 23, 2016 Contact: Margaret Delaney, Margaret.Delaney@berlinrosen.com, 202-800-8689 National Conservation, Sportsmen Groups Applaud USDA-DOI Announcement of New Coordination of Water Conservation Efforts in the Colorado River Basin Announcement Responds to Calls from Conservation Leaders, Gov. Hickenlooper, Sen. Bennet for Greater Coordination Between Federal Grant Programs to Protect Communities and Critical Water…

Bennet, Hickenlooper public lands bill introduced, protecting sporting opportunity in Gunnison River Basin

Contacts: Trout Unlimited media resources: https://tu.org/about/media WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and John Hickenlooper (D-CO) introduced legislation that would create important new protections for fish and wildlife habitat in Colorado. The Gunnison Outdoor Resources Protection (GORP) Act would create several new designations protecting over 700,000 acres of public land  within Gunnison County…

Trout Unlimited Launches New Film Celebrating Revival of Historic Wyoming Watershed  

Contact: Nick Gann, Rocky Mountain Communications Director, Trout Unlimited – nick.gann@tu.org Trout Unlimited media resources: https://tu.org/about/media CHEYENNE, WY – Earlier today, Trout Unlimited (TU) launched a new film, “Lifeblood,” celebrating the collective work and partnerships needed to revitalize Muddy Creek, an important tributary of the Colorado River Basin located south of Rawlins, Wyoming.  For decades,…

Cooperation key to protect agriculture, river health in Upper CO River Basin

For Immediate Release May 19, 2015 For Additional Information Contact:Dan Keppen, Executive Director, Family Farm Alliance, dankeppen@charter.net; (541) 892-6244Eric Kuhn, General Manager, Colorado River Water Conservation District, ekuhn@crwcd.org; (970) 945-8522 Russ Schnitzer, Agriculture Policy Advisor, Trout Unlimited, rschnitzer@parulallc.com; (970) 309-0285 Cooperation essential to protect agriculture, river health in the Upper Colorado River Basin Agriculture, conservation,…

TU statement on Senate reauthorization of System Conservation Pilot Program

For immediate release June 27, 2018 Contact: Steve Moyer, TU government affairs, smoyer@tu.org, 571-274-0593 Randy Scholfield, Trout Unlimited communications, 720-375-3961, randy.scholfield@tu.org Senate reauthorizes program that helps farmers and ranchers conserve water Program helps ease impacts of long-term drought in Colorado River Basin Washington D.C.The Senate voted Monday to reauthorize a program that helps farmers and…

Gambling on Gold

Published in Advocacy

The proposed Uinta Basin Railway poses a significant threat to Colorado River’s Gold Medal waters.

Colorado River Cutthroat Trout

Trout Unlimited has a diverse research and monitoring program focused on understanding the basic ecology and habitat requirements of Colorado River cutthroat trout. This work, done with various state and federal partners, helps us identify key habitat needs throughout the year so we can restore and protect important aspects of trout environments, such as over-wintering,…

Conservation Funding: Energy & Water Trout Unlimited Letter to U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee for Energy and Water

Published in Uncategorized

170627_TU_FY18_EW_Approps_House_FNL.pdf June 27, 2017 RE: Bureau of Reclamation FY18 Budget Request. Dear Chairman Simpson, Ranking Member Kaptur, and Members of the Subcommittee, I am writing on behalf of Trout Unlimited (TU) and its 300,000 members and supporters to express our views on Fiscal Year 2018 appropriations for programs within your jurisdiction which are of great…

Climate resilience in a hotter, drier West

Published in Conservation

The West is in the grips of another hot, dry summer, with more than 60 large wildfires currently burning across the region. At the same time, the effects of last year’s fires are apparent in many states; Interstate 70, a major artery for east-west transportation, has been shut down through Colorado’s Glenwood Canyon multiple times in the past two months due to mudslides resulting from last year’s Grizzly Creek fire. The epicenter of the ongoing drought is the Colorado River…

National Conservation, Sportsmen Groups Applaud Passage of Congressional Omnibus Spending Bill

For Immediate Release: May 4, 2017Contact: Michael Pauker, Michael.Pauker@berlinrosen.com, 646-335-0330 National Conservation, Sportsmen Groups Applaud Passage of Congressional Omnibus Spending BillThe bill contains more than $1.3 billion in vital funding and protections for Western water resources, including the Colorado River National conservation and sportsmen groups applauded passage through Congress of a new omnibus spending bill.…

Dam operations

Almost every major river in the American West has a dam somewhere along its course. One of the few exceptions is the magnificent Yellowstone River in Montana — at 692 miles long, the Yellowstone is the longest free-flowing river in the contiguous United States. For most other rivers and their fisheries, dams and their operation…