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Voices from the River: Conservation moment of truth

Published in Voices from the river

By Brett Prettyman MILLCREEK CANYON — The moment of truth. It comes with the first spoonful of a new chili recipe delivered at a family hunting camp. The first cast to slurping trout on the hand built rod on your favorite water. Waiting to see if the patched hole in the waders is stream worthy.

‘Fisheries’ article highlights changes in Alaska waters

Published in Uncategorized

By Dave Atcheson The lead article, gracing the cover of the October issue of the journal Fisheries, details a recent study on how environmental changes may affect our salmon in both the near and distant future. The study is spearheaded by lead scientist Erik Schoen, from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and encompasses the work

Don’t fall in love with a walleye fly

Published in Conservation

By Chris Wood Do not fall in love with a walleye fly–at least not in Ontario because here there be monsters. Northern pike, with scores of needle-sharp teeth are a toothy circumpolar fish that occupy habitat from Siberia to Alaska to Wisconsin, and in Canada share much of the range of walleye. A pike’s teeth

Lessons from Trout in the Classroom

The volunteers, partners and staff of Trout Unlimited believe in a future where native fish swim in cold, clean headwaters. This vision benefits fish, of course, but it also provides a vital resource for every living thing that depends on water. Which, last time I checked, is every living thing. While the benefits of what

Infrastructure package could help the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin

Published in Advocacy, Conservation, Government Affairs

A massive package of legislation, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is currently working its way through Congress, having been passed by the Senate earlier this week. If enacted, this bill would make essential investments of remarkable size and scope to help the nation address the impacts of climate change, including some of the worst impacts of the

TU, Field and Stream announce 2011 Best Wild Places

Contact: Chris Hunt, Director of Communications – (208) 406-9106 Colin Kearns, Senior Editor, Field and Stream – (212) 779-5082 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TU, Field and Stream announce 2011 Best Wild Places Six locations chosen for sporting assets and need for long-term protection Washington, D.C. Trout Unlimited and Field and Stream magazine today announced the six

Looking back at 2017

Published in Conservation

By Chris Wood Last week, I had an hour between meetings in Carmel, California, so I called Tim Frahm, who directs our CA coastal steelhead work. He invited me to look at a project that Christy Fischer, his spouse, and he had worked on. Over chicken sandwiches they told me a riveting story about how

Video spotlight: Tasmania

Published in Video spotlight

The first trout introduced to the Southern Hemisphere weren’t brought to New Zealand. Or Argentina or Chile. Or South Africa. They were brought to the mountainous, maritime island off the south coast of Australia: Tasmania. Video of Tasmania, Australia Fly Fishing by Todd Moen Todd Moen captures just some of the beauty of Tasmania in

Voices from the River: Iced out

Published in Voices from the river

Ice fishing can be fun. Right? By Mark Taylor “Ice fishing?” The text popped up the other day, a week into the unusually frigid spell that had gripped much of the continental U.S. “I don’t think so,” I replied. I’m usually up for just about any kind of fishing, especially if options are limited. And

The Lodge at Glendorn

About us Ensconced in more than 1,500 acres bordering the Allegheny National Forest in northwestern Pennsylvania, The Lodge at Glendorn, designed in the style of the grand family camps of yore, has been a fly-fishing destination since 1929. Adventure is in our nature. Explore miles of private brooks and ponds on property, or venture nearby

Trout Tips: Wait for it…

Published in Fishing, Trout Tips

A bonus for waiting and watching. Photo by Chris Hunt. I spent the weekend in Yellowstone National Park, catching the tail end of the fishing season and enjoying some glorious fall weather that, by late October, is usually only a memory for die-hard anglers who visit the park this time of year. And most of

Five things anglers should know about the Antiquities Act

Published in Advocacy

1. The Antiquities Act authorizes the President of the United States to designate National Monuments on federal lands that contain historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, or other objects of historic, cultural or scientific interest. National monument designations can only take place on existing public lands. 2. Presidents have proclaimed a total of 163 monuments.

Agencies Must Get Serious to Save Listed Northwest Fish

3/15/1999 Agencies Must Get Serious to Save Listed Northwest Fish Agencies Must Get Serious to Save Listed Northwest Fish Largest Salmon Conservation Group Says Volunteers Alone Aren’t Enough Contact: 3/15/1999 — — Volunteer and local efforts won’t restore endangered trout and salmon without a coordinated, forceful effort from state and federal agencies, says Trout Unlimited,

Priority Waters

Published in Priority Waters

Picture a native trout in a river, suspended in the flow. Or wild salmon flooding into a stream, following instincts handed down over too many generations to count.

Coastal Cutthroat Trout

This study reports the occurrence and details of spawning by coastal cutthroat trout in Indian Creek in the Elwha River, Washington, in October and November. This is unusually early in the season for this characteristically spring‐spawning species and is much earlier than conspecifics elsewhere in the river system and the region. We hypothesize the stream’s