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03/19/2008 Wine Industry Leaders and Trout Unlimited Announce Water and Wine Program to Enhance Stream Flow and Improve Water Supply Reliability in Sonoma County March 19, 2008 Contact: Brian J. Johnson, Trout Unlimited, 415-385-0796, bjohnson@tu.org Duff Bevill, Sonoma County Winegrape Commission, 707-529-7349, duffbevill@earthlink.net FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wine Industry Leaders and Trout Unlimited Announce Water and…
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…
Editor’s note: TU sent a handful of college students to the Pacific Northwest for this year’s TU Costa 5 Rivers Odyssey to study and fish in the Columbia River basin. Oregon’s Deschutes river has long been known as one of the West’s most legendary watersheds. Known for its prolific hatches and dry fly fishing, specifically…
Nestled in south-central Colorado, the San Luis Valley boasts 14,000-foot peaks, Gold Medal waters, incredible biodiversity and even Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. As the largest alpine valley in the world, this area has been called home by the Navajo, Ute, Apache, Kiowa, Comanche and Spanish before becoming part of the United States. Today, that means the valley distinguishes itself…
By pack mule and on foot, the Forest Service and Colorado Parks and Wildlife members went in to save the previously thought-to-be extinct lineage. Less than 100 individual trout were removed and taken to the Durango fish hatchery for safekeeping and possible brood stock development.
Craig Harker and Matt Woodard on the Henrys Fork By Chris Wood Craig Harker and Matt Woodard, two native sons of eastern Idaho, sat in the front. The road hummed as we sped toward Ashton to get me a fishing license before we hit the Henry’s Fork. “I remember it like yesterday,” Craig said. “After…
The fact is that since the construction of the dams, we have never been able to get enough adults to the Snake River’s high-quality spawning waters to keep these fish off an extinction trajectory.
A backcountry trek in the Sierra to catch Goldens.
2/18/2000 Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber Endorses Breaching of Lower Snake River Dams Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber Endorses Breaching of Lower Snake River Dams Trout Unlimited Strongly, Loudly Applauds the Governor Contact: 2/18/2000 — — Contact: Jeff Curtis, TU Western Conservation Director: 503-827-5700; cell. 503-351-2592; jcurtis@tu.org Alan Moore, TU Western Communications Coordinator: 503-827-5700; amoore@tu.org (PORTLAND, ORE.,…
01/29/2009 TU Files Protest of Colorado Energy Lease Sale January 29, 2009 Contact: Corey Fisher, (406) 721-1002 David Nickum, (303) 440-2937 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: TU Files Protest of Colorado Energy Lease SaleProposed development threatens Colorado River cutthroat trout habitat DENVER On Wednesday, Trout Unlimited filed an official protest of a proposed Bureau of Land Management…
How do we bring back salmon and steelhead? Look to the science. My career in conservation was informed by a magical experience at a place called Poverty Flats in the middle of the South Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho. At the end of a long day, as our field crew packed up, we…
Colorado Rivermap Over the next two years, partners from across Colorado are embarking on a “Rivermap” journey – think “roadmap,” but with more whitewater rapids. Our goal is to enhance recreation, stewardship, and safety along Colorado’s major rivers. We aim to address pressing issues facing Colorado’s rivers, including overcrowded recreation sites, degraded ecosystems, and growing…
This river is unique. The only river in the Great Lakes Basin without a single dam, she flows free through the Huron-Manistee National Forest from headwater tributaries to the mainstream
“But mitigation alone won’t be enough. TU’s continued support of programs and policies geared towards carbon reduction and climate change mitigation will be critical in keeping our coldwater fisheries of today, coldwater fisheries of tomorrow. Our practice of using sound science in decision making has made us among the most respected environmental organization in the nation – when TU speaks, decision makers listen. We’ll need to continue to flex our voices.”
November 17, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Brian J. Johnson, California Director(415) 385-0796; bjohnson@tu.org Sam Davidson, Communications Director(831) 235-2542; sdavidson@tu.org Trout Unlimited lauds Governors Newsom and Brown, Warren Buffett, Tribes for clearing path to Klamath River dam removal States of California and Oregon demonstrate “timely and critical leadership” in resolving issues related to transfer of…
Contacts: On behalf of Trout Unlimited and the Jackson Hole Chapter of Trout Unlimited, we would like to express our deep concern regarding the proposed reduction of flows from Jackson Lake Dam beginning on May 10th, 2023 by the Bureau of Reclamation. Trout Unlimited (TU) has a long history of collaboration with numerous agencies and…
Contact: Amy Wolfe, Director, TU Eastern Abandoned Mine Program570-786-9562, awolfe@tu.org For Immediate Release: Brook Trout Return To Stream After Years of Restoration Fish return after 13 years of work on abandoned mine clean-up. LOCK HAVEN, PA After over a decade of work by Trout Unlimited (TU) repairing damage from abandoned coal mine drainage in the…
CONTACT: TAYLOR RIDDERBUSCH / Trout Unlimited Great Lakes Organizer tridderbusch@tu.org / 715-313-0001 (March 16, 2017) ARLINGTON, Va. Trout Unlimited is deeply troubled by the Trump administrations proposed FY 2018 budget, which would eliminate critical programs that protect and restore coldwater resources and that form the foundation of multi-billion dollar commercial and recreational fishing economies. The…
By Nick Schmal and Laura MacFarland As stewards of more than 220,000 miles of America’s fishable streams and rivers, the U.S. Forest Service has long been an invaluable partner in protecting and restoring coldwater fisheries and their watersheds throughout North America. Perhaps most impactful in recent decades, has been their leadership in the advance of…
A fundamental shift Avoiding the most severe potential impacts of climate change means dealing with the root cause — carbon emissions. We need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing energy production, and make a fundamental shift toward renewable technologies. At the same time, we should address the effects of climate change facing us today,…
