By Eric Booton I learned a memorable lesson while on an overnight camping trip with a group of friends during college. We camped next to a small and freshly stocked reservoir in a quiet, Colorado valley. The fishing was easy and trout were on the menu. The following morning was complete with consequence, not just…
By Eric Booten Excuse the grip and grin, but this fish and smile come with a story. I enjoyed talking fish with Sam, my fishing buddy and coworker. Several hours of the work week were routinely lost to these discussions, but when you work to protect fish and their habitat, sometimes you just take some…
By Eric Booton I choose to wander through airports like a dazed drone, focusing on nothing but my destination and the gate that will get me there. I ignore most everyone. Not to be rude, I’m just not fully enthused to be killing time in such a mundane enclosure. The rows of bench seating occupied…
Even when they’re beset by freezing rain or other forms of natural calamity, public lands bring peace
Contact: Erin Mooney, National Press Secretary – (571) 331-7970emooney@tu.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Trout Unlimited Celebrates Dramatic Recovery in the West Branch Susquehanna WatershedEvent marks widescale watershed improvements resulting from abandoned mine restoration. Lock Haven, Pa. Trout Unlimited (TU), the nation’s largest coldwater conservation organization, celebrated improvements to the West Branch Susquehanna River and its many…
TU has done more to protect and sustain and restore native trout species than any other organization, and it’s not close.
3/22/2004 Trout Unlimited Calls for Changes to Flow Proposal for Upper Delaware River Trout Unlimited Calls for Changes to Flow Proposal for Upper Delaware River Contact: Rocci Aguirre Catskills Coordinator Trout Unlimted (607) 498-4671 3/22/2004 — Hancock, NY — National conservation organization Trout Unlimited (TU) today announced it will seek changes to a proposal that…
The San Luis Valley The San Luis Valley is located about 200 miles southwest of Denver, Colorado and is bounded on the west by theSan Juan Mountains and by the Sangre de Cristos to the east. The region is home to more than 1.8 million acresof public land that includes hunting and fishing opportunities on…
Photo by John Schoen By Chris Wood The state of Alaska’s recent proposal to re-open the roadless debate brought back memories. Mike was flossing his teeth when I entered his office. “I’m sorry. I’m running late for the dentist.” It was 1998, and Mike Dombeck, the chief of the U.S. Forest Service, had proposed a…
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22.6″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.22.6″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.22.6″][et_pb_image src=”https://www.tu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Buck.jpg” _builder_version=”3.22.6″][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.22.6″][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”3.22.6″][et_pb_image src=”https://www.tu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20170201_120929.jpg” _builder_version=”3.22.6″][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”3.22.6″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.22.6″] Let’s take a minute to daydream. Close your eyes and envision beautiful mountain scenery and cold, clean water drifting through the valley floor, bugs flitting through the clear, blue sky, and the possibility of sighting wildlife around every bend.…
Editors note: This piece originally appeared in the opinion section of the Spokesman-Review. It is often difficult, if not impossible, to restore wild places to their former ecological and aesthetic glory once human development has altered them. But in some cases, the vitality of wild places can be recovered. The Elwha River on Washington state’s…
2/26/2007 Trout Unlimited Hires New Manager for West Branch Restoration Efforts Feb. 26, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Amy Wolfe, (570) 726-3118 or awolfe@tu.org Trout Unlimited Hires New Manager for West Branch Restoration Efforts MILL HALL, Pa. – Trout Unlimited (TU) has hired Rebecca Dunlap as Project Manager for the organizations West Branch Susquehanna Restoration…
9/21/2000 TU and Navy Agree to Protect Fisheries on Navy Lands TU and Navy Agree to Protect Fisheries on Navy Lands Agreement will help to protect some endangered, threatened trout and salmon species Contact: 9/21/2000 — — Contact: Alan Moore, Western Communications Coordinator, Trout Unlimited: (503) 827-5700 September 21, 2000. Arlington, VATrout Unlimited has signed…
Since it was conceived in 2004, TUDARE has worked to ramp up restoration work across the unglaciated, or “Driftless” area of the upper Mississippi River Basin. This 24,000-square-mile area lies in southeastern Minnesota, northeast Iowa, northwest Illinois and western and southwestern Wisconsin. It offers over 6,000 miles of cold spring creeks in 600 watersheds, one…
6/21/2006 TU Praises Sen. Thomas for Recognizing Value of WY Backcountry June 21, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tom Reed, (406) 522-7291 x104, treed@tu.org Robert Pistono, (307) 637-7838 TU Praises Sen. Thomas for Recognizing Value of WY Backcountry Senators recognition of fishing and hunting on public land is good news for Wyomings sportsmen JACKSONSen. Craig…
Baby Skeena and Baby Morgan on the Kenai River. Photo courtesy of the Williams family By Jenny Weis My dad and uncle fished at our family cabin growing up, my boyfriend taught me how to fly fish, and most fishing trips among my friends were male-only, with no invitation extended to the females. Truthfully, for…
By Eric Booton Frustration is exhaled from behind my fully zipped collar, and the cloud of vapor fills the drawn hood of my wading jacket, fogging my lenses, furthering the frustration. I’ve heard nothing but positive reviews of this impressively clear and painfully cold spring creek. With an exception or two, I was easily able to round…
If you’re thinking of fishing in Durango, CO then you absolutely must think about The San Juan Angler.
“SweetWater supports our friends over at TU in their mission of conservation and recovery of salmon and steelhead on the lower Snake River. Protecting healthy river ecosystems and a diversity of fish species ultimately means protecting the source of clean, quality water that turns into the downstream beer we enjoy. Because protecting our great outdoors is in our DNA – you just can’t make good beer without clean water.”
Trout Unlimited’s Land Conservancy Fund is a matching grant program designed to provide chapters and councils with grants to help with land protection projects, including conservation easements and land trust or agency acquisition and/or ownership of properties that are a priority for native and wild trout and salmon populations. The program is administered by the…
