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Voices from the River: Five questions for Tess

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If you’ve spent much time fishing in Montana, you’re probably familiar with Rock Creek just outside of Missoula. While it’s importance to fly anglers has been long known, it’s key role in trout recruitment for the Clark Fork River is starting to come to light. With that in mind, Trout Unlimited brought in Tess Scanlon,…

Colorado River Connectivity Channel Clears Final Federal Hurdle

Partners applaud decision allowing $30M river reconnection project to proceed FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 9, 2022 Contacts: Mely Whiting, Colorado Water Project Legal Counsel, 720-470-4758 Jeff Stahla, Public Information Officer, Northern Water, 970-622-2331 Ed Moyer, County Manager, Grand County, 970-531-7799 John Andrews, P.E., State Conservation Engineer, NRCS, 720-544-2834 DENVER, Colo.—The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)…

Colorado hunters and anglers celebrate vote to advance the CORE Act

Legislation to conserve 400,000 acres of public land now moves to U.S. Senate  WASHINGTON D.C. (October 31, 2019) – Today, Trout Unlimited celebrates the Colorado Outdoor Recreation & Economy Act (CORE Act) passing through the U.S. House of Representatives and moving on to the U.S. Senate. This important legislation conserves more than 400,000 acres of public lands in the Centennial State,…

Sportsmen groups praise Roan Plateau settlement

Nov. 21, 2014 Contact: David Nickum, Trout Unlimited, 720-581-8589, dnickum@tu.org John Gale, National Wildlife Federation, 303-746-3570, galej@nwf.org Suzanne ONeill, Colorado Wildlife Federation, 303-919-3949, cwfed@coloradowildlife.org SILT, Colo. Sportsmens groups today praised an announced settlement with the Bureau of Land Management and energy lease holders that includes several measures to help protect the Roan Plateau, a backcountry…

Why is the Snake River Basin the right place to make this kind of investment?

The Snake River has, by far, the greatest potential for wild fish recovery of any watershed in the Columbia Basin.    Historically it produced about 40 percent of the spring/summer Chinook salmon and 55 percent of the summer steelhead in the Columbia system. Annual run estimates prior to the 1850s exceed two-million fish for all…

Drought and trout

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There are many demands on water, especially in the West. Municipal water for drinking and other human uses, agricultural water to grow our food, recreational water to keep a thriving outdoor recreation industry afloat and numerous others. And all are important for the economy and our lives and livelihoods, but in the West, it is clear there is not enough to go…

Bureau of Reclamation Funds Trout Unlimited Projects Across the West 

Infrastructure funding for water quality and reclamation projects will also benefit trout and salmon    Contact: Sara Porterfield, Western Water Policy Advisor, Trout Unlimited, sara.porterfield@tu.org Drew YoungeDyke, National Communications Director, Trout Unlimited, drew.youngedyke@tu.org     ARLINGTON, Va.—The Department of the Interior this week announced over $51 million in watershed and river restoration projects through the Bureau…

Congress steps up to approve Delaware River Basin Conservation Act

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By Mark Taylor   In the early morning hours Saturday, Congress stepped up to protect one of America’s most historic watersheds.   The Delaware River Basin Conservation Act, first introduced in 2010 and long a priority for Trout Unlimited and our partners in the region, finally cleared both the House and Senate as a provision…

WaterSMART: The smartest water program you’ve never heard about 

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WaterSMART fishing on the green river

The WaterSMART program provides funding to irrigation infrastructure projects and other water-delivery, water conservation or watershed health projects that proactively mitigate conflicts over water scarcity, help ranchers and farmers and make our public lands and waters better able to withstand the impacts of extreme weather events and natural disasters.

Conservation Success Index

The CSI is TU’s original conservation planning application. Beginning in 2010, the CSI provided the first range-wide summary of watershed-scale information related to salmonid distribution, population attributes, habitat conditions, and future threats. Information from the CSI served as the base data for TU’s 2015 State of the Trout report. The CSI approach has evolved into…

TU honors Denver Water with River Stewardship Award

Trout Unlimited Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 11, 2016 Contact: David Nickum, dnickum@tu.org, 720-581-8589 Randy Scholfield, TU communications, rscholfield@tu.org, 720-375-3961 Stacy Chesney, Denver Water, stacy.chesney@denverwater.org, 303-628-6700 Trout Unlimited honors Denver Water with River Stewardship Award In recognition of utilitys collaborative water conservation, river habitat projects DenverColorado Trout Unlimited has awarded Denver Water, the Denver…

Upper Rio Grande Landscape

From its headwaters in the high peaks of Colorado through the northernmost rift valley of New Mexico, a region known as Rio Arriba, the Upper Rio Grande is a fabulous fishing stream. For 200 miles, the river is filled with trout, pike, smallmouth bass, and carp. Major tributary streams like the Conejos, Chama, Red, Jemez and Pecos are superb fisheries themselves, along with hundreds of additional feeders, many…

Animas River catastrophe a call to action on mine pollution

Photo courtesy NBC News Aug. 7, 2015 Contact: Steve Kandell, skandell@tu.org, (970) 946-5801 Ty Churchwell, tchurchwell@tu.org, Jason Willis, jwillis@tu.org, (719) 221-0411 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited, stakeholders call for solution in wake of Animas River mine blowout (DURANGO)Trout Unlimited today called for urgent action to clean up the scourge of abandoned hardrock mines, in the…

State of the Trout: Native fish on the Colorado Plateau and in the Southern Rockies in peril

June 23, 2015 Contacts: Jack Williams, Trout Unlimited senior scientist, jwilliams@tu.org, (541) 261-3960 Chris Hunt, Trout Unlimited national communications director, chunt@tu.org, (208) 406-9106 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Trout Unlimited report highlights challenges facing native trout in the U.S. Climate change, non-native species among biggest threats on the Colorado Plateau and in the southern Rockies WASHINGTON,…