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Trout Unlimited Applauds Upper Delaware River congressional Delegation for Working to Secure Funding to Improve Delaware River Flows

12/8/2003 Trout Unlimited Applauds Upper Delaware River congressional Delegation for Working to Secure Funding to Improve Delaware River Flows Trout Unlimited Applauds Upper Delaware River Congressional Delegation for Working to Secure Funding to Improve Delaware River Flows Contact: Leon Szeptycki Eastern Conservation Director Trout Unlimited 434.984.4919 12/8/2003 — Washington, D.C. — Trout Unlimited (TU) and…

Pioneering

Being a pioneer means being out front. Trying new things. Mapping uncharted territory. It means having the persistence and grit to push onward, doing what it takes to reach a goal. In the past 20 years, Trout Unlimited’s Western Water and Habitat Program staff has blazed new trails in the rural West, with conservation goals…

Senate Provides Funding for Restoration in the Midwest?s Driftless Area

6/27/2006 Senate Provides Funding for Restoration in the Midwest?s Driftless Area June 27, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jeff Hastings, TU, 608-606-4158 David Wilson, DAI, 608-723-6377 x135 Senate Provides Funding for Restoration in the Midwests Driftless Area Arlington, VA A Senate committee has included an appropriation in the FY2007 budget to help with the restoration…

Tincup Project Partners Receive Conservation Award

Wednesday, November 27, 2019 Contacts: Leslie Steen, Snake River Headwaters Project Manager, Trout Unlimited, 307-699-1022, lsteen@tu.org Lee Mabey, Forest Fisheries Biologist, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, 208-557-5784, lee.mabey@usda.gov Tincup Project Partners Receive Conservation Award Trout Unlimited, Caribou-Targhee National Forest and permittees recognized for large-scale project as part of the Snake River Headwaters Home Rivers Initiative JACKSON, Wyoming –The…

Parkside Elementary, TU team up to protect Rum Creek in Mich.

Published in Uncategorized

By Jamie Vaughan Rockford – Parkside Elementary students are changing the way their school is impacting their neighboring trout stream. The past two years, Parkside fifth graders have been analyzing the health of Rum Creek, an important coldwater tributary to the Rogue River, and decided they wanted to improve the footprint of the school on…

TU restores important ‘pocket’ wetlands in Michigan

Published in Conservation

Trout Unlimited recently wrapped up a multi-year project to create and restore critical wetlands in the Rogue River watershed in southern Michigan.  This fall, two more “pocket” wetlands were restored, making a total of four wetland restoration projects over the past three years. Pocket wetlands are small areas that boast large benefits for water quality in this case because of their priority location adjacent to coldwater trout streams.  …

Policy Positions

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,…

Virginia project frees a stream — and trapped trout

Published in Barriers, Barrier removal

Finding 45 brook trout in a single pool in a small creek may sound like a good thing.  In the case of a small stream in Virginia’s mountains it was anything but.  The fish were trapped in a small plunge pool beneath a perched culvert on Railroad Hollow, a small brook high in the Dry…

Colorado Trout Unlimited Officially Goes On Record In Opposition To Referendum A

7/17/2003 Colorado Trout Unlimited Officially Goes On Record In Opposition To Referendum A Colorado Trout Unlimited Officially Goes On Record In Opposition To Referendum A Contact: David Nickum Executive Director Colorado Trout Unlimited 303-440-2937 x12 7/17/2003 — Boulder, Co — One of Colorados leading conservation organizations has voted to oppose the States efforts to win…

Senate energy bill reauthorizes LWCF

April 20, 2016 Contact: Steve Moyer, smoyer@tu.org Kristyn Brady, 617-501-6352, kbrady@trcp.org Senate passes bipartisan energy bill that reauthorizes LWCF Sportsmen have been fighting for years to move these conservation priorities across the finish line WASHINGTON, D.C. The Senate has just passed a comprehensive energy reform bill that includes key conservation provisions to benefit fish, wildlife,…

TU advocates urge support for Chesapeake Bay funding

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Sen. Shelly Moore Capito (R-W.Va) recently met with Trout Unlimited’s Dustin Wichterman (right) and West Virginia landowner Greg Hulver to discuss how federal funding, such as through the Chesapeake Bay Program and several Farm Bill programs, has contributed to West Virginia trout stream and farm restoration success. (Photo courtesy of Sen. Capito’s office.) By Mark…

Fish for Change

Published in Headwaters

An incredible opportunity for a high schooler to experience a life-changing fishing trip Recalling back to my days as a high school student, I would’ve given the world to be able to go on a fishing trip of a lifetime. Creating change through fly fishing is eventually where my life took me, but it was…

Renewable energy bill gains momentum

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Trump budget walls off land and water conservation

TU calls on Congress to reject the worst natural resource cuts of President Trumps Budget Proposal “The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.” — President Teddy Roosevelt WASHINGTON, D.C. After reviewing President Trumps Fiscal Year…

Administration Proposes Slashing Critical Federal Funding for Whirling Disease Research

2/8/2000 Administration Proposes Slashing Critical Federal Funding for Whirling Disease Research Administration Proposes Slashing Critical Federal Funding for Whirling Disease Research Decision Pulls Rug Out from National Efforts to Combat Disease & Ignores Recent Spread to New Mexico, Yellowstone National Park Contact: 2/8/2000 — — Reports of the Administration’s decision to propose slashing $1 million…

Sportsmen and women throw support behind renewable energy legislation

For Immediate Release  July 25, 2019  Contacts:   Shauna Stephenson, Trout Unlimited  Shauna.stephenson@tu.org, (307) 757-7861    Katie McKalip, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers  McKalip@backcountryhunters.org, (406) 240-9262  Kristyn Brady, TRCP   kbrady@trcp.org, (617) 501-6352  Hearing will consider measure that sportsmen’s coalition says will help protect wildlife, public lands with thoughtful planning and revenue for conservation  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sporting groups rallied around…